Saturday, July 19, 2025

Club hockey: ‘The physicality has got better, the aerial poses a different threat’

Alex Danson, the England and GB great, on her time coaching Wimbledon women’s 1s

I was delighted we made history for the club finishing top four. We started slowly and we built since Christmas and just got better and better.

I was apprehensive around the tactical side and how much of that I could implement with the team. I have loved that side of it and working out the opposition, working out their strengths, how do we nullify those?

It was really challenging and we knew what we were dealing with. We played with 25 players exposed to Premier Division hockey which could only be good for the club’s junior system, with two under-18s players in League Finals.

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