Our columnist reflects on playing alongside England and GB great Maddie Hinch, who changed goalkeeping and the sport in the UK, as well as creating an open environment for mental health
Maddie Hinch made goalkeeping cool. I even started thinking about...
Sat against the advertising hoardings in Valencia, Maddie Hinch put a hand over her sweat-induced hair and breathed a sigh of relief and joy in equal measure.
GB women had just qualified, in 2015, for the Rio Olympics before racking...
How to deal with hockey shoot-outs
The key is to work out their go-to strengths. Under pressure that’s what an athlete wants to resort to.
I am trying to work out if I am that person at that moment. What is...
Having had some time to reflect on England’s ultimately unsuccessful Hockey World Cup campaign, I’d have to say my overriding feeling of the whole thing is one of disappointment but also of hope and optimism.
Paul Revington’s side topped a...
Terrassa -- Clad in foam, Jo Thompson, the former GB goalkeeper, says she could cope with the cauldron of Olympic hockey back in 1992. Her team-mates felt the conditions then. It was in training and warm-ups where Thompson felt...
The Hockey Paper is leading a campaign to find a worthy recipient of a set of junior goalkeeping foam donated by Simon Mason, of Mercian.
The Kit was a prize for the winning team at a recent Masters tournament at...
Fortitude Goalies are passionate and committed to delivering expert coaching to all levels of goalkeepers in the UK and abroad for their long term development. They have been guiding goalkeepers on their journey to reach their goals and becoming...
A smile spreads across Ollie Payne’s face as he opens up on his meteoric rise to become England and GB No.1 and the little club in Totnes which gave him the grounding. “For me Dart HC was perfect,” says...
Hockey goalkeepers have unique requirements, from a technical, physical, psychological and tactical perspective.
Not only do goalkeepers need to be agile, reactive and explosive, they also need to be able to repeat these high-intensity actions over the course of a...
Surbiton’s Ore Ogunlana talks about how a focus on balance has helped his goalkeeping
For me it’s all been about balance this season. When someone has come in to take a shot, it has been about remaining totally balanced. Once...