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El Capitan grad finds success in sport many consider to be girls-only
SPECIAL TO THE UNION-TRIBUNE July 9, 2009
By Glae Thien
“It's one of the most challenging games that I've ever played because of the amount of skill that it requires,” Manny Martinez says of field hockey. “You can be fast and strong, and you still won't be able to excel. It takes certain finesse to dribble and trap the ball.” - K.C. ALFRED / Union-Tribune
LAKESIDE — Field hockey is known mainly as a sport for females around these parts, yet Manny Martinez has discovered a world of opportunity in the game on the men's side.
Martinez, a graduate of El Capitan High, competed in the Junior World Cup in Malaysia and Singapore last month with the U.S. under-21 men's national team, only four years after he took up the sport in earnest.
With Martinez's 21st birthday in a couple of weeks, the tournament also represented his farewell to age-group play and a start toward his objective of playing on the senior national team. Read rest of article >>
USA Field Hockey announces the roster for the 2009-2010 Women's National Team.
2009-2010 Men's Developmental Team
Amrit Ahluwahlia
Ryan Sundeen
Tyler Sundeen
Manny Martinez
Alex von Bieberstein
Andrew Zayac
Corbin Seghers
Alex Grassi
Colin Scally
Viren Padhiar
2009-2010 Men's Junior National Team
Kamalpreet Singh
Manraj Mangat
Ajaypal Singh
Arvinjeet Singh
Jivraj Hundal
Tanvir Grewal
Kenny Patrone
Mo Ghandi
JaJa Kentwell
Lucas Long
Christian Linney
Michael Hage
Sander Cummings
Michael Schmitz
Blaise Falk
Brandon Karess
Michael Barminski
Tyler Sundeen
Sean Cicchi
Ranveer Kundi
Luc Morter
Paul Singh
Johnny Orozco
Amrit Beatty
Andrew Davis
Alex Grassi
Liam Walsh
Ajai Dhadwal
Viren Padhiar
Jo Ghandi
Cal Cup 2009
Third Cal Cup Crown for Buenos Aires: Rush’d win Women’s title By Jawwad Qamar
May 25, Moorpark, CA: The four days of non stop hockey in the beautiful setting of California hills came to an end with the 2-1 victory by Ciudad de Buenos Aires over the Dirty Birds from Vancouver, Canada at Cal Cup 2009. Buenos Aires also took the Cal Cup title in 2005 and beat the Dirty Birds in the 2006 finals.
Earlier the veteran Rush’d took the women’s $5,000 cash and crown by thrashing Jolie Pitts 8-0 in a one sided rematch of their Saturday’s meeting when the result was much closer at 1-0. Torrie Albini and Jesse Gey scored two goals each while Shellie Onstead, Vianney Campos, Tara Jelley Danielson and Heidi Faith each added one goal as their goalkeeper Barg Weinberg was hardly tested in the tournament. A combination of current and former USA national players, Rush’d dominated the women’s division by scoring 36 goals while allowing no goals in six matches.
Albini was the leading scorer in the entire super division with 9 goals and awarded the Ross Rutledge Award in memory of Canadian great Ross Rutledge who passed away in 2004. Rutledge was a fixture at Cal Cup for many years. >>More>>
FIH Rules of Hockey 2009 - Free Hit
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has released the revised free hit rules because of the great interest in them. The next Rules of Hockey will take effect from 1 May 2009 and the full set of rules will be published as soon as possible.
Field Hockey West encourages our member clubs, teams, and officials to begin experimenting with the new rules before they come into effect.
Please visit the FIH website to view the new free hit rules
No major changes in ABN AMRO World Rankings
16 Feb 2009
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) updated the ABN AMRO Women’s World Rankings as a result of the Women’s Pan Am Cup. The final ranking of the event played in Bermuda didn’t have a major effect on these rankings. more -->
1 NETHERLANDS
2 ARGENTINA
3 GERMANY
4 CHINA
5 AUSTRALIA
6 JAPAN
7 SPAIN
8 ENGLAND
9 UNITED STATES
10 KOREA
New York Times: Sports / Olympics
A Chinese Hinterland, Fertile With Field Hockey By CHARLES McGRATHPublished: August 23, 2008
For a thousand years, the Daur people of Inner Mongolia have been playing a game called beikou, a close sibling of field hockey. READ REST OF ARTICLE >>
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) expanded its cooperation with You Tube. From today, the FIH website www.worldhockey.org will feature the ‘You Tube Clip of the Week’. Each week, the FIH will choose one user-generated hockey video as the clip of the week to be featured on the FIH home page.
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The importance of providing athletes feedback regarding their performance is without question. Unfortunately, a number of feedback traps exist that coaches can fall into. These traps reduce feedback effectiveness or worse, create unintentional consequences that can hinder performance. Here are five common feedback traps that should be avoided: more>>>
COACHING CONVERSATIONS - A WAY OF FOSTERING ATHLETES TO PEAK PERFORMANCE
Even though there is a considerable amount of literature on coaches and the coaching process, there is no single framework or empirical model of effective and successful coaching that has achieved consensus (Lyle, 2002). Given that there is a wide variance in athletes’ needs between sports and competitive levels, gaining consensus may not necessarily be crucial. Nevertheless, there may be some coaching behaviours and approaches that make a particular contribution to effective coaching. more>>>
A VIEW FROM THE TOP - LEE BODIMEADE
In May 2005, USA Field Hockey hired Lee Bodimeade. Their objective in hiring the former silver medalist from Australia (1992) was to qualify for the Olympic Games after they had narrowly missed in 2000 and 2004. As an excellent teacher of specific skills, Lee took a squad of young players and has turned the program around. more>>>
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