A recent report, Elitist Britain 2019, looked at more than 5,000 people in the country's top professions and their educational background and concluded that "a lucky few" were given the most opportunities.
The report stated that half of the medal-winning...
GB international Tess Howard speaks to The Hockey Paper on her whirlwind six months since debut
I guess I truly didn't know what the senior programme was about until I broke into it. You learn more about its uniqueness the...
Jean Arnold is something of an icon in Liverpool. The 79-year-old has been a revered PE teacher in the region for decades and her tireless work has seen her nominated for unsung hero and lifetime achievement awards in recent...
As England's leading scorer in the men's hockey top flight, Nick Bandurak is in sizzling form for Holcombe. The 25-year-old has bagged nine goals in four matches this season, including five times against Sevenoaks, and kept the Kent side...
Kate Richardson-Walsh, the former GB and England captain, is closing in on her first season at Dutch club HC Bloemendaal. Here, she speaks to The Hockey Paper on what she’s learned since Olympic gold
British hockey is more akin to...
Beeston’s James Albery is part of a talented under-21 GB team hoping to make a big impact at this year’s Junior World Cup.
The 21-year-old started his youth career at Old Loughtonians, in Essex, before moving to Cambridge City when...
Holly Munro: University of Birmingham and England
After hanging up the football boots at the age of 11, never in her wildest dreams would Holly Munro have thought she would now be sporting the Three Lions on the hockey pitch.
Less...
Trent College’s U16 national schools' title in 2013-14 was partly the product of a thriving link with their local club – national premier division champions Beeston.
Two of Trent’s U16 XI were also in the Beeston first team squad, while...
This year has seen the introduction of a knock-out Cup and Plate competition for the boys’ U18 national school competition.
The format of the matches is 35 minutes each way with all normal rules and regulations applying. This is a...
Cranleigh School is gaining a growing reputation for hockey with, most recently, back-to-back national girls’ U16 title. Head of admissions at the Surrey school is none other than 1988 Olympic Games hockey gold medallist Steve Batchelor. Batchelor’s own children...