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: 9^thSept to 16^th Dec 2012 inclusive
Spring Term: 13^th Jan to 24th March 2013
Summer Term: 21st April  to 7th July 2013 inclusive (excluding 23rd June and 30th June)

Please note in a change from previous years, we have decided to not break off training over half terms

We run waiting lists for the younger age groups.

Registration Day: 9 September 2012

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: