{"id":19451,"date":"2026-06-19T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/?p=19451"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:53:26","slug":"north-down-ladies-welcome-darren-cassells-as-new-1st-xi-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/north-down-ladies-welcome-darren-cassells-as-new-1st-xi-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"North Down Ladies Welcome Darren Cassells as New 1st XI Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Down Ladies Hockey Club are delighted to welcome Darren Cassells as their new 1st XI coach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darren has been involved in coaching with Lurgan and more recently Harlequins; helping players develop their skills, confidence and love for the game. For the past two years, he has also enjoyed coaching the Ulster Masters Over-45s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darren is really committed to his coaching:
\u201cWhether it\u2019s coaching experienced players or those just starting out, I\u2019m passionate about giving back to the sport and helping players get the best out of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, hockey is more than just a game \u2013 it\u2019s a community, a passion, and something I\u2019m proud to be involved in every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darren joins Aaron Mills and Kathy Taylor to make up this year\u2019s 1st XI coaching and management team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are very excited for the season ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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North Down Ladies Hockey Club are delighted to welcome Darren Cassells as their new 1st XI coach.  Darren has been involved in coaching with Lurgan and more recently Harlequins; helping players develop their skills, confidence and love for the game. For the past two years, he has also enjoyed coaching the Ulster Masters Over-45s team….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ladies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19453,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451\/revisions\/19453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northdownhc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}