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Season Dates

 

2024 Men’s training 

For those wanting to try out for our Premier League and reserves teams, training starts on Tuesday 23rd January.  All are welcome to join in for the first 4 weeks. 

Tuesday 23rd January for 4 weeks – 7.00 – 8.30 – arrive at 6.40pm on pitch 7.00pm
Thursday 25th January for 4 weeks – 8.30 – 9.30 – arrive at 7.30pm on pitch 8.30pm

Men’s Wednesday night pennant/metro trainings start on the 7th February on pitch from 8.00 – 9.30pm.  Arrive 7.45pm on pitch at 8pm.

Sunday scratch matches are back on Sunday from 4.30-6.00pm on Sundays starting the end of January.

Pennant/Metro will be again training at Farm Road during the season after Easter from 6.45 – 8.00pm.

2024 Women’s  training

Women’s section will run strength and conditioning training on Sunday morning from 10am starting on 21st January for 6 weeks. 

Pre-season training for pennant metro teams will start on 7th Feb from 7-8.30 pm on pitch at Farm Rd until the 27th March. After that women pennant/metro will train on either Tuesday or Thursday night.

For people wishing to train or try for women’s premier league or reserves, training is on Tuesday from 8.30pm to 10pm  and on Thursday from 7.00 to 8.30pm.  First week back on the 23rd is a casual week, with training starting in earnest on the 30th January.

Juniors

Under 8 / Under 10

With restructure of Under 8 and Under 10 hockey in Victoria in 2024, all under 8 and under 10 hockey will be venue based. With Southern as a venue, local clubs will play under 8 and under 10 hockey at Farm Rd on a Saturday morning. As we have seen over the last years a venue based competition makes life simpler and more fun for parents, children and officials and we look forward to the expansion of this program.
Southern United hockey for under 8s and 10s commences in 2024 with our hook in 2 hockey program kicking off for new and young players on Friday and Saturday 16/17th February, the Hin2H program will then for 6 weeks. Our under 10s will train on Thursday nights starting later in term 1.

If you have children interested in joining our hook in 2 hockey program or hockey for younger children please contact our co-ordinator Petra on suhc.hin2h@gmail.com

Under 12 – Under 18

A restructure in juniors will see juniors return to three grades: Shield (1st grade), Pennant (2nd grade) and District (3rd grade). Shield A has been expanded and Shield B removed. This will facilitate less travel with the pennant grades being regionalised. We are excited to have been allocated shield selection for Under 12 Mixed, Under 14 Boys, Under 14 Girls, Under 16 Boys and Under 16 Girls. We will also be fielding Pennant to District teams in Under 12 to Under 18.

We are always keen for new players, if you, your friends or children would like to be part of Southern United please contact Anna vis secretary@suhc.com.au

Coaching

In an exciting develop, we welcome Matt L’Huillier, our Women’s Premier League Head coach, to the role of Junior Coaching Coordinator.

Matt brings with him a wealth of experience as a top-level player and coach and his appointment represents our commitment to invigorate the coaching expertise offered to our juniors.

Southern United Hockey Academy (SUHA)

As in past years, we will be looking to develop our Shield and representative players through our SUHA programme.

The objective of SUHA is to help players develop more specific skills and become better players. Jesse Workman our Men’s Premier League Head coach and Matt L’Huillier our Women’s Premier League Head coach will deliver this program in boys and girls streams from January 23rd to March 2024.

More details will follow shortly.

Southern United Development Program (SUDP)

The 2023 SUDP program will be open to all junior players to participate. The aim of this program is to assist players from beginner through to more experienced players develop basic through to intermediate skills. It will be conducted based on age and skill levels to ensure all players are in groups that, match their skill and provides opportunity to improve on each player’s skill.

They will take place from February and to March 2024. More details will follow shortly.

2024 Junior Pre-season training

Junior pre-season training starts on March 2nd and runs through to Easter. Training over the school holidays will be advised by the coach.

Season Dates