Ben Hawes, who captained the Great Britain team at the Beijing Olympics, is to join us at Wimbledon. Ben has a combined total of 181 caps for Great Britain and England and has scored 43 international goals in an illustrious international career that began in 2002 and has included representing GB at two Olympics. He has a wealth of experience and his former clubs include Canterbury, Amsterdam H&BC and Surbiton. A defender or midfield player with an eye for goal, Ben’s stick skills are amongst the best in the game. Ben has also been elected to the BOA Athletes’ Commission and will join the group of 14 athletes advising on the 2012 Olympics.
Director of Hockey Ben Marsden said, “I’ve played with Ben at both club and international level. A renowned match winner, the wealth of experience he brings, of playing at the highest level, will complement the skills and enthusiasm we have in our winning team.”
National League and London Premier League for the Mens 1s & 2s
The Men’s 1st XI will be confidently joining the National League this year. It is hard to believe that only three short seasons ago, we were playing Hampshire/Surrey Division One hockey. Now three consecutive league titles later and we are entering the National League. Preparations are well underway to prepare for the start of the season. See the calendar for training and Summer League.
Wimbledon Hockey continues to take significant steps forward even during the close season. Confirmation has been received from the London league stating the Men's 2XI will be playing in the London Premier League this season. This places them in the highest attainable 2XI league, facing very significant opposition.The likes of Reading 2, Surbiton 2 and Canterbury 2 are very welcome challenges and further underline the Wimbledon drive for top flight hockey.
Congratulations to all players who helped to contribute to this success.
Ladies Club Trials
Ladies trials will take place on Saturday 4 September at Kings College School (KCS) sports grounds, starting promptly from 10.30 -14:00.For more information please contact Ladies@WimbledonHockey.com. Go to the bottom of the homepage for directions.
For players who may be of a 1s or 1as standard, please get in touch to find out more about summer league, currently played at Spencer Club every Tuesday evening. Lauren Klugkist, Ladies 1s Captain, lollyklu@yahoo.com
All players are welcome to join the fitness sessions run at the Club by Ben Marsden, see the information below.
Club Pre-Season Fitness Starting Wednesday 21st July
Pre-season fitness will once again be run by Ben Marsden for both the Men's and Ladies' teams on Wednesday evenings by the Clubhouse on Church Road. Sessions will start on the 21st July at 7.30pm and will run for approximately an hour. Meet by the entrance to the Clubhouse, water and mozzy spray essential!
The sessions will include strength and flexibility work, speed and endurance plus a few games. Get down there and join in to catch up with your hockey gossip and make sure you are raring to go for pitch training later in the schedule.
New Ladies 1st XI Coach
Wimbledon Ladies Hockey Club are very excited to announce that they will have a new 1st team coach for the coming season. Ignasi Pallares Gutierrez is a 27 year old defender from one of Spain’s top clubs, Atletic Terrasa.
He has already been doing his homework on the Ladies 1s results last season and has said that his desire and dreams give him the strength and determination to succeed. Initial discussions with Ignasi about his ideas on training suggest that he has every intention of continuing the hard work on fitness that was started last season. Watch this space for more news on Ignasi and the forthcoming season.
MENS SUMMER HOCKEY - 1's & 2's
Wimbledon will be competing in the Spencer Summer Hockey League. This will start Monday 21 June - 11 August 2010 (8 weeks). Initially places are open to 1st and 2nd team players.
This competition runs for 8 weeks and we will be taking 10 players per week. Fluddy will be running the side so please contact him on shuttdavid@hotmail.com to book your place. First come first served. Players will pay £5 each week to play, any additional money can go to a kitty for drinks after the game.
Directions to Pitches
Please click here for directions to Pitches and the Club House.
Note that the new Tiger Turf is at the Kings College School (KCS) venue.
