With our Men's and Women's summer leagues in full swing now we have lots of hockey and pre-season sessions planned to get everyone back in tip top condition ready for the 2018-19 League Season starting in September !

Albert Marcano will continue as our overall Lead Performance and Men's 1's coach, we're just completing recruiting a new coach to the club to take up the Ladies 2/3 coaching and club coach role, and Nigel and Mark (Wors)will be doing a switch as Nigel takes on the Men's 2/3's and Mark (Wors) switching to Club Coach. Sav's has been busy working with the Women's 1 on their post and pre-season planning too and Albert and the Men's 1's have also had a post season review too. We're also reviewing how we structure the academy coaching and increasing the support from the core coaching team.

Check out all the dates and times for what's coming up:

PRE SEASON PROGRAMME - 2018-2019

Mens and Women's Performance Squad (by invitation)

With the restructuring of the National Leagues from 2019-20 this is a big season for both first team and we are investing further in pre-season to get the squads in the best possible condition prior to the league commencing:

Saturday mornings: 10.00am - 12.30pm (incl 45 mins fitness)
Starting Saturday 30th June until Saturday 25th August 2018

Tuesday evenings : 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Starting Tuesday 18th July to 28th August 2018

Strength and Conditioning and Pre-season Fitness
Assessment session: 7.00pm - 9.00pm - Friday 8th June 2018
Coach led sessions: 7.00pm - 8.00pm - Monday 11th, 18th and 25th June
Re-test / assessment session: 30th June 2018

Friendlies and and pre-season tournaments have been arranged for the Men and Women as part of the programme.

Club Training - Men and Women
- all other players and any new players,
- academy players who played senior hockey last season, academy players invited to senior training last season

Tuesday evenings 7.00pm - 8.30pm
Starting Tuesday 17th July to 28th August 2018

We are also scheduling some summer friendlies for other teams during the summer and in early September ahead of league fixtures starting.

Club / General Fitness

We are finalising details for the general open to all pre-season fitness sessions.

Performance Goalkeepers (by invitation)

Times vary based on Rob's availability. Please be down 15 - 30 minutes before the start of the session to kit up and warm up ready to maximise the session time

3rd July 6.00pm -7.00pm,
7th August 6.30pm - 8.00pm,
11th and 18th August 9.30am - 11.00am

Academy Pre-season

We are currently finalising plans for summer training for some academy members as in previous years to prepare for the badgers and beavers fixtures starting in early September - more details to follow. Sessions will be on a Tuesday evening during 7th - 28th August 2018. Times and sessions to be confirmed. Invites will be sent to players to attend.

IN SEASON TRAINING PROGRAMME 2018-2019

Academy Registration Day is Sunday 2nd September when Sunday coaching for all ages from Cubs (5 years old) to Under 14 will take place 11.00am - 12.30pm

Tuesday's will remain our main club training evening for seniors and Under 16's with both astro's in full use !

GREEN ASTRO

Club Training (Men's 4/5/6's and Women's 4/5's)[/b] - 7..0pm - 8.15pmMen's and

Men's and Women's 2 / 3's Training 8.15pm - 9.45pm

BLUE ASTRO

U16's Boys and Girls (Academy) - 5.45pm - 7.00pm
Academy Development Groups (by invite) 7.00pm - 8.00pm
GK's (rota tbc) 7.00pm - 8.00pm

Mens and Women's Performance (1's) Squads 8.00pm - 10.00pm

Additional indoor hockey training for the Men's and Women's Performance squads and U18's (indoor squads) - Schedule to be announced in October and November on Thursday evenings 7.00pm - 9.00pm at Manchester Grammar School.

Still looking for more hockey over the summer ?

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