The official league hockey season may be over but it has been a busy month for many of our members with the U12s and U14s Repton Cup, international matches for our NAGs players, the announcement of Futures Cup selections as well as summer league hockey for our Men’s 1st XI.

Our U12s and U14s boys and girls had an amazing experience at this year’s Repton Cup and it was fantastic for our youngsters to play some competitive indoor and outdoor games against talented teams from across the UK after such a challenging season. This festival of elite hockey has gone from strength to strength since it’s launch in the summer of 2018 and proves to be a showcase of junior hockey talent so we are very grateful to our Head Coach Martin Jones, as well as the support of Repton School, to ensure the 2021 Repton Cup was able to take place so successfully.

Bella Hinde-Smith (U12s) awarded Player of the Tournament

Our U12s girls were coached by Ladies’ 1st XI Captain Hannah Davey and the boys by Men’s 1st XI player Matti Thomas with guest coaches Mimi Tarrant and GB International Ollie Willars joining them to help with the U14 teams. Thank you to the coaches, our U14 boys evening manager Rich Mayfield, all the umpires, and to the army of Repton Cup helpers (including plenty of familiar faces from Repton HC past and present!), for their hard work to ensure everyone had such a great time. There are some good highlights of the tournament on the Repton Cup Instagram feed with excellent video footage of the matches and our members will have received details of how to view and purchase event photographs that were taken by Epic Action Imagery.

Earlier in the summer we were delighted to announce that 11 of our juniors had been selected for the final NAGs squads and they have all had the opportunity to represent their country this summer with matches vs Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The strength of our junior programme was further reflected by the Futures Cup selection announcement this week with a further 9 players selected to represent Mercia Lynx and Pennine Pumas in the tournament to take place in St Albans from 25th-28th August. Congratulations to all players who committed to the England Hockey Player pathway this season. It has been a difficult season and the enthusiasm and dedication shown by so many players will prove them in good stead as they strive towards their hockey goals and aspirations.

Congratulations to:
EDP

Claudia Swain
Alex Chihota (Junior Guest)

U21 USA

Tyler Kim

U18 Boys NAGs

Archie Vaughan

U17 Boys Futures Cup

George Fletcher
Sam Rollett
Jamie Butler

U18 Girls NAGs

Bronte Brough
Imi Swann
Miranda Jackson

U17 Girls Futures Cup

Ella Bowman
Izzi Evans
Aimee Mayfield

U16 Boys NAGs

Harry Stone

U15s Boys Futures Cup

Ollie Ewart White (Junior Guest)

U16 Girls NAGs

Ottilie Sykes
Tilly Butterworth
Pip Jowett

U16 Girls Ireland

Georgia Kelly

U15 Girls Futures Cup

Beth Phillips
Ruby Ogden

From the formation of Repton HC in 2016 our mission has been to focus on talent development though our coach-led model and the success of our junior players in 2020/21 is testament to this ethos. We are therefore really pleased to have been chosen as one of the clubs to be offered a place in the first round of the accreditation window to become a Talent Centre under the New England Hockey Talent Framework. The Committee look forward to working closely with the England Hockey Talent team through the accreditation process and continuing our strategy of player development whilst growing the club to encourage participation across all age groups.

With a short break now for most teams until the 2021/22 season begins, our Men’s 1st XI continue their weekly summer league games at Nottingham Hockey Centre ahead of a competitive pre- season fixture list for the adult teams which starts at the end of August. The club website will be updated over July and August with the 2021/22 Championship and League fixture details and a reminder please that Membership Renewal is now open with a deadline of 1 September.