Sun’s out, fun’s out
Happy Friday, all! With the 🌞 finally out, and end of season fast approaching, there’s week after week of fun to warm you up for summer so make sure you’ve got everything in the diary. We’ve also been plying you with updates left, right and centre - so thanks for hanging in there! In case you’ve lost track of what’s happening/needs doing, a handy list can be found below 🫶
End of season admin
If you’re planning on playing at Wapping next season, please make sure you’ve confirmed this here.
It’s time to vote for the EOS awards! This form has both the team player/most improved and the wider club nominations. We’d love to hear from as many people as possible - even if you don’t have a name for each category, just filling in what you can (particularly for your team prizes so that your captains don’t get too much power) is really helpful for us as we look at all the data when awarding prizes.
If you won an award last year, you will have been contacted by now to return your trophy, please do so by the deadline of March 15th so that we can get them engraved for their new homes!
As detailed last week, End of Season Dinner will take place on April 12th at the Underglobe in Southbank and thanks to Simon Wright you could be in with the chance of winning a stunning gold and silver hockey tie slide 😍
Grab your tickets here (scroll down the page to add your raffle tickets before adding to cart).
“As sponsor of Wapping Hockey Club I love having the opportunity to create unique pieces for the fundraisers, so I have made a sterling silver stick and yellow gold ball tie slide for the end of season award night raffle. Well done to everyone for a great season! It would retail for £400 so well worth a punt on a ticket! If you are interested in buying one for yourself or the hockey enthusiast in your life get in touch.” - Simon Wright
Watch your 1s
Wapping W1s have four huge games left in their first ever season in National League. Their next 3 games are all at Lee Valley at 6pm.
On 15th March, Wapping play local rivals East London W1 - a huge derby that our 1s came out on top of before Christmas. After the game we'll head for club drinks at the beloved Northcote Arms, hopefully victorious in both our hockey and cheerleadering achievements.
Points at the lower half of Conference East league are tight. So while Wapping are currently in 7/10, it means as a club we all need to get behind our fab 1s to give them as much support as possible. Make sure to show them how proud we are by getting down to LV on 15th March, but also this weekend and 22nd March if you can to cheer them on!
The good times keep coming
Join the 1s at our beloved clubhouse, The Moretown Belle, on the 29th March for a night packed with fun and laughter, all for a great cause! Keep your eyes peeled on their socials for updates on all the amazing prizes you could win 👀
Quiz tickets and raffle books available on the webshop now!
Going out in style
Our Lee Valley hangout, the Northcote, are kindly putting on a bash to celebrate the last game of the season on April 5th.
More details to come, but get the date in your diary, and start the end of season celebrations (and hopefully a few promotions) early.
Baby Burnie
Our long-serving goalkeeper and dedicated committee member, Stuart Burnside, recently became a proud father — and we couldn’t let the moment pass without a special, hockey-related gift in the form of matching Wapping HC goalkeeper jerseys:
One for our ever-reliable shot-stopper and one for the newest (and possibly cutest) future club legend. Congratulations, Stu - looks like you’ve got some competition for the No. 1 jersey in a few years!
Welcome to the world (of hockey), Margot!
*Shoutout to Hawkinsport for their help in making the baby jersey a reality and another big thank you to all Wapping HC members that donated towards the gift - you all helped make a tired man smile.
U14 Boys on 🔥🔥🔥
After an absolute thriller of a game against Teddington, including goals from Bakkali and Winkelgrund, our U14B storm through to the Tier 3 London Hockey cup final 🏆🥳
Special shout outs to
Arthur who, having recently been coached by inspirational junior GK, Mya, had an absolute stormer, including a last gasp save in the dying seconds! 🥅 ⛔️
Grant whose die hard dedication to coaching and solid good vibes has supported these boys to be the best they can be 🫶
The five U12 boys who formed part of this team and helped smash it out the park.
Dates for the diary
15th March - W1 vs East London derby match (LV @ 18:00 with afterparty at The Northcote).
29th March - 1s club fundraiser at the Moretown Belle - tickets here
5th April - Last game of the season fun at the Northcote
12th April - End of Season Dinner - tickets here
19th April - 25/26 season early registration deadline - register here
9th August - Club Day - It’s gonna be a big one so get it in the diary now.
This week’s fixtures
Last week’s results
Member discounts:
Check out our Members' area (Password: whc1989) which has all of our available offers, including:
5% discount and 5% club kick back at the Moretown Belle
A free Psycle session
Grubby: 50% off + free delivery on 1st box, plus 30% off for the rest of the month
Balling: All members = 15% off, W1 and M1 = 25% off. We also get 25% off OTE sports (sports nutrition bars, etc)
