England Hockey has promised to make the sport "more visible, relevant, and accessible" after launching new objectives and values earlier this month -- now you can have your say on the sport's plans.
The national governing body says its 'Creating...
In recent times, there has been a lot of talk within football as to ensuring the mental health of youth players is adequately looked after. There is a wealth of discourse surrounding young individuals within the football academy system...
Koo Janzen, Hampshire Hockey Association Player Pathway Committee chairman, says England Hockey’s governance restructuring is having a detrimental impact on junior hockey
Now that England Hockey have abandoned the player pathway completely and replaced it with the travesty that is...
When the Talent Academy system was set up there were understandable concerns as to how this might affect smaller clubs with junior players.
According to Fleet and Ewshot HC, any fears have been unfounded and the benefits to the...
Siôn Kitson is Talent Partnership Manager at England Hockey overseeing the delivery of Talent Academies across the country, whilst supporting the wider implementation of England Hockey’s new Talent System. This is the fourth part of the series.
Talent Academies are...
England Hockey has defended its decision to use an “independently conducted stress testing" company chaired by the national governing body’s own chair in a bid to iron out the continued problems with its Game Management System (GMS), The Hockey...
In the third part of our series in collaboration with England Hockey on the new Talent Centre, we look at the first cohort of clubs working towards Talent Centre Accreditation as part of the new Talent System
Gary Johnson is...
Stourport HC want to widen its appeal to more children from state schools after being offered a licence to operate as a Talent Academy, to work with 15-18-year-olds as they progress to future stars of Team GB.
Stourport will run...
In the second part of our series, England Hockey's Heather Williams looks at how the new talent development is shaping up
Whenever I’ve discussed the changes to our talent system, I’ve found that people immediately want to understand the...
Heather Williams is head of Elite Talent Development at England and Great Britain Hockey, and is currently part of the team leading the development and implementation of England Hockey’s new Talent Development System.
I get asked a lot, ‘why’. ‘Why...