The WHC has had yet another successful year on and off the field throughout the 2010 period – Especially with the double header wins of our elite SL1 Men and Women teams, so let’s see season 2010 out with a bang.

Seats and reserved tables are filling up fast so gather your teammates and get involved.

Where: Manningham Hotel (Bullen)
When: 29th October, 7:00pm-12:00am
Dress: After 5 (cocktail)

Payments are due in no later than Friday 22 October 2010, so please get in early and confirm your attendance by purchasing your ticket(s). Please see the attached flyer for payment details. For any queries, or to confirm table arrangements, please phone Rachel Sheppard 0439 360 922.

Click on link below to download form:

WHC 2010 Presentation Night Flyer Order Form

WHEN – Saturday 31st July from 11PM.

TICKETS – $30 ticket for entry into the $1000 draw, two drinks of your choice and a sausage.

TARGET 1000 – Let’s aim for 1000 people to come through those gates on Saturday to show the proud and dominant force that Waverley HC is.

The day kicks off strongly with our two impressive under 9’s teams taking the field against Doncaster’s best under 9’s. The Under 9 Panthers will be looking to cement their 1st and 2nd places on the ladder – The next generation look strong! The club encourages parents and their kids to stay on for the day – We are supplying two jumping castles and have a Cub Card available for purchase on the day.

Cub Cards – $5 will get the kids one soft drink, a sausage and unlimited time on our two jumping castles.

Following will be an 120 strong minkey brigade taking the field to showcase the future of the club. Club members from State League 1, Pennant A and B will be down to help out coaching the minkeys program from 10:30am. Doncaster minkeys are also making the trek to Waverley HC to join in the fun. Again the club encourages the minkeys to stick around and to make use of the Cub Card!

WHC will welcome sponsors, supporters and council members at 12:00 noon to the club for a great day of socialising, food and hockey!

The third placed Pennant A Men will be looking for a win against the fourth placed Doncaster at 12:30pm – A win could potentially boost the team to first place!

2:00pm will showcase the clubs best Men’s talent with the State League 1 taking the field against Doncaster. The boy’s are coming off a strong win against Greensborough at home. They will ensure a fast paced, skillful and exciting game for the the home crowd to enjoy.

3:00pm Will see the $1000 draw begin, make sure you have tickets (ONLY $30!).

3:30pm the third placed Women’s Pennant A team will take on second placed Doncaster in what should be a well fought match to cement a finals spot!

5:00pm will showcase the final match of the day with the Pennant D Women looking to knock off a lowly PEGS to ensure a finals berth coming into the business end of the season.

Remember to show your support by getting down for the day to ensure we reach TARGET 1000.

Look forward to seeing you there

The Waverley Hockey Club, in it’s 50th Year Celebrations, would like to extend and invitation to all past, present and future members for the annual Senior Presentation night.

The details are as follows:

When: Friday 30th October, 7pm
Where: Merrimu Receptions – 1300 Dandenong Road, Clayton.
Why: A great night of entertainment at the end of the season to celebrate the clubs achievements.
Who: See Rach Sheppard or Jess Collins for enquiries / payment options.
Rach – 0439 360 922
Jess – 0400 546 840

Tickets – $80 each.

2009 Senior Presentation Night Form

More details will be posted shortly. Put the date in your diaries!

The workshop is an open invitation for all current and potential coaches from all of the women’s divisions (seniors, juniors and minkey’s).

The topics to be covered by Toni will include: Systems, structures, positioning, designing and training drills.

For any further information regarding the workshop please comment on the article and we will endeavor to reply with an answer.

Only teams are stated for specific times, its up to each team to generate a roster around these times. Thanks in advance for helping out around the club. It’s not a huge commitment but one that is needed to ensure the club has success off the field as well as on.

Cheers Trav.

We hope you are enjoying the new website and its features. Over the coming weeks we will be adding further improvements as well as properly filling out some of the missing content. Until then please bookmark the site and make sure you check back daily for all Waverley HC updates plus use the MyWHC pages to check team news and fixtures.

We are also looking for representatives within the club to make match reports on their teams performance each round. We a hoping to have weekly updates from a variety of teams in the Men’s, Women’s and Juniors to help keep the whole club up-to-date on your teams performance.

If you are interested in contributing please email admin@waverleyhc.org.au OR leave a comment down the bottom of this post with your name and email to contact you on and we will set you up with an account.

I would like to pass on special thanks to the following people whom contributed enormously over the last couple of months to make this such a fabulous night. Don Trewin for MC on the night, Roger Andrews for last minute printing deadlines, Beth Merkus for guidance and feedback to the Club Committee, Ian Hocking for the Club’s determination to pursue this event, Di Robbie & Antony Green for co-ordinating the Teams of the First 50, Sue-Anne Hocking for artwork, Drew Ashton for the presentations and especially the Organising Committee of Drew, Ant, Rach, Jess and Bronwyn for delivering a great night. – Brian Maddock

ps. Do you have any great photos of the night? Please forward to waverleyhc@live.com for inclusion in the Waverley Hockey Club 1959-2009 Signature Frame.

To register for the 2009 season do the following:

Download and print a registration form or collect one from the clubrooms

Downloads are accessed through the mens, womens sections of the web.

Fill out the form with your details. A registration form must accompany your payment. If paying by direct debit mail a copy to the club.

Make payment via Direct Debit to Waverley Hockey Club, Cash, Cheque or EFTPOS

If you are unable to attend then post tthe form with your payment to:
Waverley Hockey Club
P.O. Box 2069
Mount Waverley 3149
If you need to discuss payment of fees then contact Graham Eddy via email at treasurer@waverleyhc.org.au.

Well last night we begun our campaign for season 2009 – and those that were there met out SL1 coach, Andrew Steele (Smokey).

Thank you for all of those who made the effore to come down last night, it was nice to see all the same smiling face and in particular nice to see some new faces down at the club. A special thank you to Stacia Joseph who came down to run the session, it was nice of you to offer us some encouraging words while we are slogging it out and you are standing and watching us!!! Ha ha

Smokey will not be there for the next week as he is venturing off into the sea on a sailing boat – doesn’t really sound like a lot of fun to me. But upon his return he is really looking forward to getting to know all of us…and please make him welcome in our true Waverley style!!! Good luck Smokey

For those of you that can make it on Saturday some of the girls will be meeting down at the club at 9am for a 30-40 min jog. If you cannot make it please ensure that you are going for a run on your own, Smokey has already made it very clear that one of his main priorities will be having fit players in his squad. So if you are aspiring to play SL1 this year, which you all should be then get running girls!!!

Next Wednesday 14th Jan we will be meeting at the club at 6.30pm – please be there on time so we can get going straight away. Those who are interested somr of us will be meeting at 6.15pm to do the Huntingdale Road run before, all welcome!

See you next Wednesday

Chook

We will have a good variety of running, games, swimming and beach fun through out the sessions. Wednesday nights will be at varied locations around the Waverley area and Saturday mornings we will be branching out for a bit of change. Locations such as, the Tan, Albert Park, Brighton Beach, Thousand Steps and Carlton Gardens.

All welcome! Hope to see you there

PD – 12.30pm
PA – 2pm
SL1 – 3.30pm

Please confirm your availability tomorrow night at training (running from 7pm as the ground is being fixed). If you are not able to get to training please confirm to Lou for SL1, Rachel for PA and 0450 485 800 for PD/Metro.

See you all there.

For the women section to get more professional on and off the ground this year we have engaged a personal trainer with us for the preseason training, so she can get us fit for the season ahead, if things work out we may keep the personal trainer with us for the winter season.

We all need to improve our fitness level form last year by at least 30% or more for all of us to be able to run out a game, our warm up needs to improve before games, including proper stretching before and after games. The personal trainer’s role will also manage player injuries, during game day and at trainings nights and report back to me before selection.

If any girls wishing to play in State League 1, Pennant A or Pennant D, a maximum attendance rate is required at preseason training.

Practice matches.
Hockey Show Tournament Dates to be advised.
March 12th Waverley Girls will play U18 Girls at the SHC – 6.00pm to 7.30pm.

Extra – curricular activities during preseason will include swimming, ladder work, hurdles, basketball and boxing.

Please let all your team mates know about our training, we are looking for a big turn out on the 5th of Feb

Look forward to seeing you all at training.

(Yes gerry, I am proud of what this team has achieved)

Pennant A playing Kew at Waverley 2pm Sunday

Sophie Bretherton, Emily Paton,Kylie meyers,Chrissy McIntosh,Melissa tiller,Kendall Trenberth, Rachel Waser, Lauren law,Sarah Bsihop, Kirsten Thompson, Eliza larter,Alex Watson, DS Nichole Ranson

Pennant C playing MCC at Waverley 3:30pm Sunday

Elka Kendall,Kristine Dudgeon, Ally Mann,Tiana Tupmar, Lauren farrell, Simone Keogh, Michelle Tuhan, Jo Thalman, Laura McLennan, Mandy Dudgeon, Alana Morellian, Courtney Crane, Viki Newton, Nichole ranson, DS Sonia Hocking

D2S playing Sandringham @5pm Sunday

Merryn Hamilton, Jen Gibson, Michelle Cross,VAnessa Edwards,Liza Saunders,Liz Loosmore,Naomi Field, Sonia Hocking,Emma Brooks,Fiona Harris,Nichole Craven,Mel Dugan plus….

D2N playng Werribee @ Werribee 12:30 Sat.

Weribee to provide 2 umpires

Udani made some great saves in goals, Fleur and Laura were very solid on the back line repelling most forays into the circle by the opposition forwards. Kelly held the team together at CH and distributed the ball around the field. Alex and Cathy held their wings out of the game and gave good support to their forwards. Krista, Rebecca, Jane, Alissa, Kristine and Courtney penetrated the opposition in the forward line. Kristine particulary impressed with her two goal tally and a great deflection over the back line when helping defend on a short corner. Laura and Ashlea came on late in the game to help keep up the momentum.
Of course as director of the production, our heartiest congratulations to Raoul Fernandes for working with the girls all year and getting them to receive the ultimate prize. Graeme Mann has also done a good job of managing the team and making sure they were all there on time.
For most of the players it was their first full year of senior hockey, and it was also the last season of weekend competition for Fleur Paton – a career spanning over 30 years. Fleur must have been the lucky omen – she has played in five grand finals – and won every one of them!

Well done team!!!