The junior division of Sydney University Hockey Club was formed in 2001 when the North Sydney Juniors became part of the Sydney University Hockey Club.
Each year, SUHCJ enters teams in the U11, U13 and U15 age groups in the North Area competition, which is part of Sydney Junior Hockey Association. These teams are all mixed teams. In 2010, we will also field a team in the Sydney-wide Under 15 Metro competition (arguably Australia's best junior hockey competition) and at least one Under 18 girls team. Our U17 boys will play in the SHA U17 comp and/or play in the men's grade teams.
We also enter a large number of teams in various Indoor Hockey competitions in Spring and Summer.
Our teams all performed well in 2009 with many of them making the semis and two teams winning their Grand Final matches.
The North Area competition games are on Friday evenings from 6.30pm or on Saturday mornings from 8.30am. Most teams have an even mixture of Friday night and Saturday morning games. The games are played at all the turf fields in the North Area - Ryde, Cintra (Concord), Pennant Hills and Gordon - with a small number also played on grass fields in the Nothern area. Maps for finding all the grounds we use can be found in Links.
The Club seeks to provide a framework for junior players to continue to play hockey with their peers until such time as they can commit to the senior competitions. In recnet years, we have fielded a second Under 18 girls' teams in the top division of the Sydney North Women's Hockey Association competition as well as a team in the U18 girls comp and we continue to be felxible in our apporcah to these older juniors. The Club's Under 17 boys have played in the men's comp and in 2010 will be playing in combined U17 teams.
For more information, please read the Junior Club Information booklet or the 2010 newsletters below. For more details about registration, please email juniorhockey@suhc.asn.au.
