Todd Williams
Todd Williams is a former Australian international, the hockey professional at Magdalen College School in Oxford and was a Premier League coach for over 12 seasons with Hampstead and Westminster, Slough Ladies and Surbiton.
Hockey Coaching: Drills repetition and performing in gameplay
Imagination inspires creativity. Over the years I've seen all sorts of things on the hockey pitch from tyres to rubbish bins, rebound nets, tackle...
Hockey Coaching: The art of the great drill
After raising the idea in my last column that it might be a good idea to reunite drills and gameplay, one comment in particular...
Why hockey drills are (part of) the best way to learn...
In the third part of a special series on junior hockey coaching, TODD WILLIAMS says importance of technical development through drills can't be underestimated
If you’ve happened...
Decision making can align stars with your hockey team
Golf and gardening are two popular pastimes for people of my age - and I am fortunate enough to be able to combine both....
How Covid might just have helped junior hockey
In the second part of a special series on junior hockey coaching, TODD WILLIAMS says that drills must now drive sessions over endless gameplay
There’s a...
Is this the process which will help us pass, receive and...
In the first part of a special series on junior hockey coaching, TODD WILLIAMS asks why gameplay alone won’t develop players technically
Honesty, they say,...
Olympics Hockey: How Australia match Belgium as best sides in Tokyo
Columnist TODD WILLIAMS says Kookaburras have been less insistent on goal chasing in bid for first Olympic title in 17 years
The semi-final win over...
Olympics Hockey semi-final: How Great Britain women can beat Netherlands
At the Rio 2016 Olympics, the triumvirate of Sophie Bray, Alex Danson and Lily Owsley fomed part of the drive which took Team GB...
Olympic selection is one physical challenge – the emotional side is...
The Olympic selection process is an emotive subject. TODD WILLIAMS looks at how to be a better, stronger person in dejection
With pushbacks finally looming...
Euro Hockey 2021: Homework and attack sees Holland and Germany fight...
THP columnist Todd Williams assesses how Netherlands and Germany advanced to the European Hockey Championships men's final
While falling short of the Belgium v Germany...
