Hockey academy returns to KZN
IT HAS been a year since the Investec Hockey Academy brought its line-up of the country’s best hockey players and coaches to KwaZulu-Natal. And now in October, in its next set of courses, the academy will address the needs of specialised school coaches.
Local hockey players and school coaches will have a chance to gain valuable knowledge from a new set of star-studded South African hockey players on Saturday, October 8, and Sunday, October 9, at St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls in Kloof.
The team of well-known hockey coaches includes national players Shelley Russell, Kelly Madsen, Bernadette Coston, Wade Paton and Sulette Damons.
Also present will be SA women’s indoor hockey player Jess Glass and SA under-21 women’s team coach Lindsey Wright.
The courses for players offered at the academy are the Fundamental Players’ Course (ages 8 to 11), an Intermediate Players’ Course (ages 12 to 15) and an Advanced Players’ Course (ages 16 to 18).
In addition, the academy will be including a specialised Advanced Schools Coaches Course, which will run alongside the players’ courses, allowing coaches the opportunity to work with the national coaches in the age groups of their school teams.
To book places for the academy, telephone Bernadine at 031 940 5565 or go online to investechockeyacademy.com. – Sports Reporter Action from the Red Bull Hardline in Dinas Mawddwy, UK last weekend. These spectacular pics are (clockwise from above) of Mike Jones, Brook Macdonald and Ruaridh Cunningham.