Junior News

An article was run in the Waverley Leader recently highlighting the WHC minkey program run on Saturday mornings. Its great to see the club in the news and congratulations to the organisers Nikki and John.

You can view the article here.

Junior uniform orders are now ready to be collected. Uniforms cannot to be taken without payment in full.

There will be 2 Uniform collection nights at clubrooms on:

• Tuesday 13th April 5.30pm to 7pm
• Thursday 15th April 6.30pm to 8pm

Payments can be made by credit card/eftpos or cash.

U15 Boys Practice Match vs Southern United
7:00pm Friday 9th April (6:30pm warmup) at Farm Rd Moorabbin

U17 Boys Practice Match vs Southern United
7:30pm Friday 9th April (6:45pm warmup) at Waverley HC

All players in the U15 and U17 squads are expected to attend.

All U13 and U15 Boys and Girls are invited to trial for Eastern Hotshots. Eastern Hotshots is a zoned development training squad made up of Junior players from Camberwell, Knox and Waverley Hockey Clubs. The training culminates in the State Championships held in July 2010. From these Championships, an U13 & U15 Boys and Girls State side is selected.

Download the flyer for all the trial dates.

The 2010 season now draws closer and all our Junior teams will have now commenced training as of this week. The Junior Committee is now in the process of finalising numbers for teams and age groups. We will again have an increase in players and teams for this year from the previous year. In the interest of ensuring that all junior players at Waverley have the opportunity to get plenty of game time on the pitch, that we need to place restriction on player numbers.

We are now currently fully subscribed to our U15 Boy’s teams so we are unable accept anymore registrations in this age group.

We have only 2 or 3 places left in U11 Mixed, U13 Boy’s & U15 Girl’s teams, so anyone who wishes to play in these age groups should register straight away or will be in jeopardy of missing out.

Also with the high number of boys who have registered for U13 teams, we are currently unable to fulfill any requests for U13 girls to play in mixed teams as well. If we were to do this it would have to be at the expense of keeping an U13 boy from playing this year.

On a beautiful Sunday morning, many people ventured down to the club to help out with the yearly clean of the rooms and the ground. Although many still slighty under the weather from celebrating the Kookaburras win last night, people enthusiastically went about the big tasks of getting the club ready for the coming season.

A quick thanks for those that turned up and the power of work that was done. With the numbers down a bit on last year, we managed to power through the jobs listed and get the club looking ’shiny’ again.

Thanks to the following people who turned up (if I missed your name email me and I’ll add you to the list) I and the members of the house committee appreciate your efforts today, the club looks fantastic.

Cheers
House Committee:

Beth Merkus, Alan Ballard,  Shannon Davey, Travis Brooks, Tim Wishchusen and Jason Lyon

U11 Training will commence Wednesday March 10 at 5.40pm. Training times can be found here http://www.waverleyhc.org.au/juniors/training

U9 Training will commence Wednesday March 17 at 5.00pm

Training times can be found here http://www.waverleyhc.org.au/juniors/training

The junior unit is running a series of coaching workshops for minkey parents and Waverley players to learn or improve their coaching skills. The Waverley Minkey program has 12 skill levels split into Koala, Croc, Roo and Kookaburras with 3 levels per animal (bronze, silver, gold). At each level a list of skills is associated with a requirement. At the Minkey workshop you will learn each of the core
hockey skills – how to break it down to teach it, skill level appropriate drills and how to run a game for Minkey kids.

The sessions run on Saturdays 13th, 20th March & 10th, 17th April from 10.45am to 12 noon at the club. There is no cost, to register contact Nikki on 0439 73 88 00 or by email at minkey@waverleyhc.org.au.

For the full details download the flyer.

Waverley Hockey Club require a Goalkeeper for the U17 Girls Shield team for the 2010 season. This is an opportunity to play in the highest level of Junior Competition and for those looking to play at the highest Senior Levels become part of a club that is playing in Women’s State League 1, Pennant A & Pennant D competitions.

Anyone who would be interested in this position please contact Colleen McCormack on 0416 254 240 or peco7@bigpond.net.au