Strategy and Delivery
Private School Games: A Day At The Olympic Park
Today is one of my favourite games of the year writes Hockey Mentors Founder Jack Childs- our girls 1st XI love the opportunity to step onto the Olympic pitch where our England/GB teams play and be watched by hundreds of people. We are playing one of the top private schools in the country Haileybury, who finished 3rd nationally last season in what promises to be an exciting game. Yet this is not a private school vs private school match. It is a private school against a team made up of some of the best state school and ethnic minority players [...]
The World Youth Festival: Preparing teams that don’t train together for high-level international competition
A lot of Hockey Mentors (HM) results don’t make sense writes founder Jack Childs. It defies belief for most people that a team of state school and/or ethnic minority players that don’t train together have been able to beat all the top private schools in England, win 60+ medals in national Indoor Hockey UK events, beat all the top clubs and even win high-level international tournaments. I believe there are three critical factors to this: culture, high-quality players and quality coaching. To bring it more to life and help the hockey stick spin around I will take a look at [...]
