Item: Hockey Finals & New Season (NEW)
Summer season finals for all leagues from 15 to 26 March, followed by a 2-week break before the Winter season starts on 12 April. Big thank-you to all players, their families, staff & officials.
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OLD NEWS
Item: Hockey is BACK!
Four of our six leagues return the week beginning 18 January! Welcome back.
Item: Hockey Christmas break!
It has been difficult to update Hockey News lately due to the massive increase in activity at the Centre in all divisions, some of which are running at over 300% the level of last year! So let's go with point form:
Hockey winds up on 17 December, with most of the senior leagues resuming 18 January, and the juniors a little later.
Many new teams this season, so congratulations to all for helping to make us grow bigger and hopefully even more fun.
Thank-you to all the players and their families for their efforts and support throughout the year. Without everyone's help we would soon fade away!
As always, we would like to wish everyone the best for the Festive Season, and hope that fun is tempered with a little moderation, but above all else, have a great summer vacation and may the New Year be a fabulous one for you.
Item: New Local Season & InLine Hockey Australia's National titles
Two subjects but only one entry here as we try to catch up on a couple of weeks of events!
Six new inline hockey leagues start up from the 1st Monday in October, including a brand new Peewee league on Wednesdays. Bear with us as we try to update all the fixtures and contact all players.
As mentioned below, Skate Australia's "In Line Hockey Australia National Titles" were recently conducted in Perth. We did say we (as in our Centre) had representatives in 5 divisions but it actually turned out to be 6 with the doubling up of one of our players in the Senior Men's. No gold for us this time (Doh!) but we did bring back 4 Silver medals - not bad really!
A message to all old & new players: keep playing and having fun, and it's never too late to join a new team!
Item: Finals time
Our local leagues start their finals from 7 September; they run for two weeks. Best of luck to everyone and don't forget to nominate your teams (or yourself) for the new season which starts just after the school holidays end!
Item: Off to Nationals
Most of our hockey players play for fun, and that's great! A few though enjoy the thrill & travel associated with elite competition and to the latter we wish them well as they prepare to enter the final stages of training to play at the Australian Inline Hockey Association's National competition in Perth later this year.
Item: Well done!
Congratulations to the junior players who managed gold and silver medals on the recent long weekend at Moe and our B-team who came second in their division. The A-team put up a good effort but will have to wait another years for a podium finish. Lots of fun for everyone and no significant injuries despite the many games played - great job! A big thank-you to all the organisers and to Skate Victoria.
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