With Summer Hockey coming to a close we've much to celebrate as we set up for the new league and cup season with successes for our young Blues through to our more more mature Blues!

Congratulations to Josh Higgin
Big shout out and well done to Josh Higgin whose been selected for the England U16 Age Group Assessments in September. Josh was selected following the recent Talent Academy Festival and we wish Josh all the best for the assessment phase and look forward to continue to see him work hard and grow as a player.

Masters success - silverware and golds !
Our Mixed Master squad were crowned champions of the North West 500 - a unique format competition for teams with whose 10 our field players ages add up to 500 or more (and a GK aged 35+) at the end of July. Congratulations to all who played and Niall Scoot and Sian Barlow for working the maths so well to fielding fantasy hockey teams through the ages from John Donnelly and Calvin O'Connor at the higher age range down to Leonnie Molloy our 1s Captain and everyone in-between! In its 2nd year some great hockey played, good social hockey pre and post match, lots of different players involved and a big trophy perched on top of the trophy cabinet in the clubhouse!

Sarah Impey and Debbie Chalcraft headed to the heat of Valencia for the European Masters Championship and and picked up Gold Medals with England O55's to add to their World Cup Golds last year. Col Taylor also picked up a Gold for England B at the parallel Spirit of Masters tournament.

North West Hockey Run Masters training and select representative squads for men (O35 to O75) and women (O35 to O60/65) so look out for more news on the dates for 2023-24 and get yourselves along to the friendly training sessions if you fancy giving NW Masters a go this year.

Timperley Talent Academy
We've completed the first year of the Timperley Talent Academy, part of the new EH Talent Framework for high potential players in the region aged 14 - 18. The cycle was completed with the TTA taking part in the biggest youth hockey event in the country with 48 teams competing over 3 days at Nottingham Centre from the 21 Talent Centres, Wales and Ulster.
Assessments for year 2 cycle will be held in September when another crop of 24 players will be selected to join the TTA for 23-24.

Big thanks to the team who've made this happen:

- Rob Turner - Boys Head Coach
- Zoe Sinclair - Girls Head Coach
- Assistant Coaches - Carwyn Nash, Connor Miller and Matt Michie
- Support Coaches / Assessors - Helen Weston, Rachel Small, John Dixon, Albert Marcano
- TA Manager - Caroline Small

Plans for 2023-24
We're finalising entries for this seasons EH Championships and will be entering teams into the following competitions:

- Junior Club Championship: U18 Boys, U18 Girls (subject to player numbers); U16 Boys and Girls and U14 Boys and Girls. The U12 /U10 competition tournaments are held in the Spring
- Masters Club Championships: Mens O0 and O40s and Women's O35 and O45s
- Adult Club Championships: Mixed, Tier 2 Mens and Womens Comp (L2 and M2 - tbc)

NW Adult Leagues - starting on 23rd September
- Men's 2 - 7's will play in the NW league and Men's 8s will play friendlies
- Women's 2 - 6's will play in the NW league
- League Fixtures for all NW matches are now loaded on Pitchero so players can start to load availability
- plus the 1's play in EHL Conference North

Junior teams are also all entered into:
- North West Junior Leagues for U16 and U14 (and potentially U18 depending on no of teams / players)
- Cheshire / GM Tournaments for U8, U10 and U12

So lot's of hockey planned for 23-24 and opportunities for all levels and new adult players welcome. New adult players please email timperleyhc@gmail.com if interested in finding out more about THC and coming along to pre season training

We've getting near to capacity for some junior age groups / genders so all new junior enquiries need to be sent to juniors@timperleyhockeyclub.com