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Our Under 10 Cubs & Hawklets Development Programme aims to provide young budding hockey players in school years 4-5 the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge of the game.
All registrations are via the Association. We will wok with schools to promote the opportunity to all interested players.
Programme Objective
- Develop fundamental hockey skills
- Capture a wide range of players with hockey potential
- Keep more athletes developing and improving within our pathway
- Provide an opportunity for specialised and age appropriate development
- Resulting in increased confidence, athleticism and hockey competence
- Participants will have fun, will be challenged, develop, be part of a group and enjoy creating new friendships through connection within our hockey community
- A programme structure that allows for learning and coaches who are capable of teaching skills to allow participant to achieve their definition of excellence
- Development of not only better athletes, coaches, umpires but better people
- There will be NO GRADING
Programme Specifics
- Programme Dates:
- Starts 24 July, 31 July, 07 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug,
- Programme break School Tournament week
- Programme break National Hockey Championship week
- Resumes 18 Sep, 24 Sep, 30 Sep
- Festival Day – Friday 07 October (School holidays)
- ​​​​​​​8 x 75 minute Sunday Sessions focused on a specific skill and principle each week, this training structure will focus on;
- the execution of the skill.
- training games focused around the skill
- Match play each week
- ​​​​​​​Each participant will receive a shirt
- Groupings to be done in participants year groups and will be appropriate groupings for the age and stage of each participant
Festival Day Specifics
- End of Programme Festival to be held on Friday 07 October
- At NHHA
- The festival will be game focused
- Coach Ratio 1 Coach to a maximum of 10 Participants
- Includes a Coach to oversee the programme coaches to ensure quality coaching
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