Royston Hockey Club

Two of our junior players have been selected to attend the Cambs Junior Academy Centre (JAC) this year. Congratulations to Josh and Bailey on their selection to the county squad.

This is a particularly strong boys age group in the Cambs county system, making their selection even more of an achievement.  

They will now attend several JAC training days in the new year, in preparation for the county tournament games that follow. Good luck, and work hard!

Please note the start times for the home games for this season have changed to: 10h45, 12h15, 14h00 and 15h30 for Bassingbourn, and 14h30 at Meriadian.

The committee and coaching team have agreed that we will be keeping the same format of the club training for this year.

The Men's 1st, 2nd XI and Ladies 1st XI will train on a Tuesday evening, and the Men's 3rd, 4th, 5th XI and Ladies 2nd and 3rd XI will train on the Wednesday evening. The times remain the same 19h30 sharp through to 21h30.

The change provides a more focussed approach for the coaching delivery to both groups. For the Tuesday session we will work on more advanced technical / tactical elements of the game, whilst for the Wednesday group looks more at the development of the core skills and technical aspects required to play the game combined with a suitable tactical component building on from there.

This proved to work well last year with improved player ability at all levels within the club, but we can only continue to do this through your input and regular attendance at training, so please make every effort to get to the relevant sessions. We would also welcome your feedback on the sessions, good or bad.

Mel Harding has again been selected for the Bury Tigers (JRPC) squad to play in the East Region Tier1 Cluster Competitions at Old Loughtonians. They play a series of games against Tonbridge and Northwood Tigers, aiming to gain selection for the East Saxon Tigers side to play in the Nationals later in the year.