Please log into Teamo and check all your contact details / emails etc are UpToDate so you do not miss a thing! Our season starts with Club Days on 7th & 8th September – see details below. All welcome, including new members – please sign up on Teamo ASAP so the team can organise catering. Senior Club Sevens will have mixed teams across all ages and teams.

Subscriptions: All Subs are now due, and Ed Hallett and Anna Morgan our Membership secretaries ask that all subs are fully paid up by the end of September latest. Please contact them with any queries, and all payments through Teamo please.

Other great News

Congratulations to Rory Jack and Tom Nolan who have been selected for England U16 assessment – well done both – we wish you well – see - https://tinyurl.com/xhedb8ec

Umpiring success! – Congratulations to Niki Wilkins and Fran Bradley for passing their L1 umpiring assessment this summer – well done both – more on the way too! And congratulations to our own Graham Beck who has been selected for international umpiring duty at the Masters World Cup to be held in New Zealand in November – fantastic achievement – we wish you well.

We are delighted to commence a new partnership with Winchester Physio & Health clinic to provide sports physio services to club members.

Located in Parchment Street, The Clinic is a dedicated, private physio clinic offering musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy, in addition to other services including sports massage, shockwave therapy and more. We will be collaborating with them and our coaches at youth training session / prem squad on injury prevention & recovery.

All Winchester Hockey Club Members can benefit from discounted rates on all services inclusive of 50% off first appointments, and 15% off follow-ups. The Clinic accepts private health insurance too.

You can find full details at winchesterphysioandhealth.co.uk or better still, come and meet some of their team who will be at our Club Day on the 7th September.

Women’s 5th XI Team. We are really pleased this season sees the return of the mighty Tigers – Women’s 5th XI team. We wish them (and all our teams) every success, and in we welcome the opportunity this gives to provide more players with greater opportunity to enjoy more pitch time this season – please support this new team in every way.

Umpiring

With each home team providing both umpires, qualified to level 1, for all league matches, we need more qualified club umpires please. Our own Graham Beck can support, monitor and organise simple assessments for you so do get in touch with your team Captains or Graham direct. The good news – it is possible for players to take a quick online umpire’s course and get qualified and be able to help out. Ideally, we need each team to put forward two players to get this accreditation.

Visit the EH website & register here https://hockeyhub.englandhockey.co.uk - or message Graham Beck through Teamo for more info.

Sport Winchester continues to make progress in identifying opportunities for better sport provision in Winchester and is working hard to get suitable facilities- including astro pitches with clubhouse! We encourage all members to subscribe to the SportWinchester newsletters – simply go to website www.sportwinchester.org/subscribe and keep up to date with developments. If you would like to join the team at Winchester HC looking at facility options, please contact either Mark Hart or myself.

We look forward to catching up with everyone at the Club Days – see you there.

Newsletter Aug 24