Juniors

A very warm welcome to the Richmond Hockey Club Junior Section.

This is a really exciting time in the development of our Juniors – we have grown from a group of 30 children when we set up in 2003 to over 420 members to date!
The Section is overseen by a group of really enthusiastic volunteers who are always keen to improve what is on offer for the children.

Autumn Term: 11^th Sept to 11^th Dec 2011 inclusive (excluding 23 October)
Spring Term: 8^th Jan to 1 April 2012 (excluding 12 February)
Summer Term: 29 April  to 8 July 2012 inclusive (excluding 3 June)

We run waiting lists for the younger age groups.

Registration Day: 11 September 2011

What you will get at Richmond is first class coaching from a team of coaches and skilled parent volunteers in a fun and stimulating environment. The coaching material is delivered from our RHC LTAD Plan prepared by our Director of Junior Hockey which is in line with England Hockey’s single system syllabus. Delivery of this syllabus is led by a team of qualified coaches assisted ably by our parent volunteers, of which nearly all have Level One Qualifications. Coaching sessions are structured to teach technical skill and tactical awareness and we finish each session with a conditioned game which relates back to the principles of the delivered session. We cater for children aged 6.5yrs to 18, both boys and girls.

Each age group accommodates children of all abilities and we coach boys and girls separately throughout the Junior Club. We stream the age groups based on ability.  This helps us to concentrate on each sub group’s needs and means that children are training with others of an equivalent ability.

Our U12s upwards compete in various leagues across the home counties. We very much encourage our better Senior Juniors (who may have filtered up into the Senior Club) to put something back into the Club by coming and helping at Junior training on a regular basis.

Training takes place on Sunday mornings at our home ground.

Our members are split into three age group sessions as follows.

Our age group system is based upon the age of your child on 1 September of the current season:

Mid Week Training:

We run High Performance Academy (HiPAc) for U12-U14 girls and boys on Friday nights (by invitation only) and additional mid week training for U15/16/17/18 girls on Thursday nights. This is at a cost of £60 per term. The boys in the older age groups prefer to train with the senior men on Wednesday nights.

For our younger members, entry to the club should be at the start of the term after which the child has turned 6.5yrs (conditional on there being space.)

Order photos of your kids now!

We have recently taken some action photos of our junior kids at training for the front page of our website.

Matthew Ford, a professional photographer and parent at RHC took these for us and they are so good that we thought we should give you the opportunity to buy these fantastic shots of your children (cost will be £8 for an A5 photo and £12 for an A4 image).

If you would like to browse the images, please follow the link below and contact Matthew direct on mail@matthew-ford.co.uk with any queries.

Please remember to click on the image you’re interested in so that you can see a larger version of the photo. At the top of this image you’ll see a “_MG_nnnn” (eg. “_MG_8820″) reference number.

Please remember to quote this number to Matthew so he knows which image you’re refering to.