Pre-season is Go!
It’s August, it’s sunny, and there’s hockey galore!
This Back Post contains more pre-season info including training slots, trials and games, a new way to contact the exec, and a note on our move from ‘Ladies’ to ‘Women’, but before we get onto that…
Firstly, I just want to say an enormous thanks to the CAWHL committee for an incredible summer of hockey fun. Corrie, Issy, Jules, Budgen, Eleanor and Smithy have put in many, many, many hours organising what turned out to be a very tricky operation, and I’m very much looking forward to wrapping up the summer in style with them at the EOSD next week 🕺💃
And secondly, a big shout out to the men’s performance teams for securing top spot in the LV ‘Elite’ league and being crowned summer league champs! Excellent work lads! 🏆🏆
August training
Starting next week, we have training for all teams as per the table below. Please note that this schedule only runs until the end of August. An in-season training timetable, starting September 1st, will be shared shortly.
Open trials session
Make sure you’re signed up to Sunday’s open trials session if you played in the 4-9s last season/are new. With a new ladies team this season and significant movement between all teams likely, it’s recommended to attend if you can.
More info on the session can be found in the previous Back Post. Note that there's no overground running from Highbury to West Croydon/Crystal Palace/Clapham on Sunday. There will also be a wander to the pub after for anyone footloose and fancy free, likely to Hackney Bridge in Hackney Wick🍻
If you can’t attend but would like to be considered for a different team please reach out to your club captains wappingmcc@gmail.com / wappinglcc@gmail.com.
Pre-season games
The exec have been busy arranging pre-season friendlies so teams have at least one in the diary but the more games your team has prior to season starting the better position you’ll be in come the 21st.
This document has been created to track the pre-season games scheduled. If you’ve arranged games that aren’t on here, please let the Fixtures Secretaries, Eleanor and Jen, know.
If you know other teams/clubs that you can reach out to to arrange friendlies for your team, please do so CCing the Fixtures Secs, who can liaise with you re pitch arrangements.
something you’d like to Chat to the Exec about?
Run by volunteers, Wapping Hockey Club are continuously looking to build and improve to ensure a sustainable, scalable future as a key hockey destination in East London.
As those who attended AGM will know, there’s been a massive amount of work put into performance improvements for the 24/25 season which was only possible due to the wealth of feedback we received from members across the club.
The Exec are currently working flat out to plan and organise for the coming season and we want to be able to focus our efforts and manage our mental load so where anything is not urgent we now request that you submit any questions/queries via this short ‘Questions for the exec form’ so we can collate, discuss and respond to in an efficient, effective manner.
Please can we request that you try to avoid sending WhatsApp messages wherever possible.
Ladies > Women
Following a brief discussion with our Welfare and Exec teams, we have decided to follow England Hockey’s lead and will be publicly renaming our ladies’ teams 'women's teams’ so that it reflects how we are represented by the leagues and follows best practice around the use of language in sport.
A couple of links on the topic should you be interested to read more:
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🗓️ Dates for your diary 🗓️
11th Aug - Trials/Open session (Info below)
15th Aug - CAWHL End of Season Dinner - Buy your ticket here (deadline 31st July)
17th Aug - Back 2 Hockey tournament @ Lee Valley
31st Aug - Club Day (Info below)
7th/14th Sept - Pre-season games
21st Sept - First League games
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