Summer Schemes – Week Two

We are going to run our first Last Man Standing competition of the season with the Premier League games starting after the international break on 14 October.  The schedule for the first six series of games is shown below.  Usual rules will apply inc £10 entry, and we pay a full 50% of the take…

Last Friday evening we launched our new 4 session Inclusion Hockey coaching programme at Comber Leisure Centre for young people with learning disabilities or difficulties and it was great to see the involvement of our youth members – well done all!!! The aim of the sessions is to make hockey more attractive to and accessible…

Julie Fisher and Andy Walls attended the @SportNINet Celebration of Coaching & Club Sport evening at the Titanic in Belfast last night to get re-presented with our Clubmark award.  Antrim and Civil Service also received their awards and Lisnagavery’s Erroll Lutton collected his Club Performance Coach of the Year Award.

The annual charity game between the cricket and hockey clubs was held on New Years Eve and resulted in a 5-2 win for the cricketers.  This was despite the fact that the hockey squad was a grossly enlarged number of 22 and that most of the cricket squad’s only connection to the sport was that…

We have learnt today with sadness of the death of Billy Johnston, father of our good friend Paul, brother to two of our Vice Presidents Robert and Norman and of course grandad to Josh Gilmore.  After a long association with Saintfield Hockey Club Billy joined North Down and played for many years on the thirds,…