Next Week is "POSITIVE or its pointless" week at PINE HILLS HOCKEY CLUB

Sport is an integral part of the Queensland way of life. At Pine Hills Hockey Club we want our kids to keep participating in physical activities, and it is essential that their experience in junior sport is positive and fun.

Children, parents, spectators, officials, coaches and volunteers all have an important role to play in making sure junior sporting environments are safe, fun and inclusive.

The Positive or it’s pointless campaign aims to reduce poor and unacceptable player, spectator and parent behaviour to make sport safe for all children.

To support clubs with promoting the Positive or its pointless messages, the Queensland Government has provided access to free resources and online training opportunities.

Pine Hills Hockey Club is pleased to have received $1000 from Qld Dept of Sport and Recreation for the purchase of equipment and training aids so we can maintain our goal of providing safe and enjoyable sport in a family friendly and inclusive environment.

Next Week is "POSITIVE or its pointless" week at PINE HILLS HOCKEY CLUB

At TRAINING on 8 or 9th August  we know ALL of our juniors try to do their best MOST of the time but tonight one will receive a special reward from their coach for their positive approach to training (towards the coach, other players, and applying themselves) All players will be given a flyer to take home and some info about -

MATCH DAY on 10 or 11th August  a player from each Junior team will be awarded a voucher for POIP behaviour shown during the game - the player will be selected by the Umpire. The player will show positive support for their team, the umpire, and their coach - all while having fun. Parents who support our club in making junior sport positive everyday... are asked to show their support by wearing  ORANGE. ...  ...it's all about having FUN!

Chocolate Drive

A huge thank you to all that helped the club with the selling/eating of the chocolates.  A fundraising drive like this is not possible without the support of everyone, thank you so much.

The draw for the I pod shuffle took place last night at grass training with our Vice President Megan drawing the winner - congratulations to Jessica Fox from the U13C team whose name was drawn out.

The money raised from the chocolate drive will be used to buy all the trophies for this year as well as adding to our training equipment. Thanks again to everyone.

Kylie - Junior Girls Secretary

And a big thank you from your team-mates - they will love all the bright sparkly goalie gear, domes, balls, fitness gadgets etc - we will spend the $2.5K profit wisely. Well done Kylie and Craig for your wonderful skills in collating all of the sales.

Robyn - Treasurer

Under 7 Yellow Team match report from 28th July.

The under 7 Yellow team ran their little yellow butts off to win again this week. An amazing result of 5-3 saw our little ones smile brightly after an extended lay-off due to school holidays, wet weather and a bye.

It wasn’t looking good at first when our opponents Commercial came out with a goal in the first minute (after a minor hiccup when both teams appeared to be running towards the same goal...lol). However our team followed up with their own goal shortly after, so with chests puffed out, big grins and high fives, it was game on.

Clancy certainly found his feet this week and ran them all over the field. Brooklyn fought off a headache to practice some more great defence. Our power player Maddie gave us some lucky breaks with her big pushes down the field. Yellow’s two little powerhouses on the field, Lily and Michala did the team proud once again, with another 3 goals between them, ably supported by their pals Holly and Roisin who also scored a champion’s goal each. Mya was keen as ever and darted around the field with her stick swinging every which way she could make it go. And who could not once again be impressed by Sophie’s sheer determination on the field, chasing the ball at all costs to pass it back to her team mates.

Maybe it was the bright blue sky or perhaps it was the fresh breeze that hyped up our players before the game, but this week we are going to attribute our fantastic team spirit and well deserved win to our new matching yellow and navy headbands generously handmade by Holly’s Grandma. Top stuff......and looking good! Beautifully written by Anna.