Loughborough Students' Hockey Club
Home groundLoughborough University
ManagerNick K (Men's), Paul Gannon (Women's)
CoachJerome Goudie (Men's), Brett Holland (Women's)
LeagueMen's England Hockey League
Women's England Hockey League
Midland Regional Hockey Association
BUCS League
Websitewww.lboro.ac.uk/sport/sports/hockey/

Loughborough Students' Hockey Club is the field hockey club of Loughborough University.[1][2]

Recent history

The men's 1st XI compete in the Men's England Hockey League and were winners of the BUCS championships for eight of the past thirteen years.[3][4] They have also won the National Indoor Championships four times since 2003, as well as gold (2004) and bronze (2005) at the European Indoor Challenge, and were quarter-finalists in the Euro Hockey League in 2008. The other men's teams compete in the Midlands League.

The club currently run four teams and compete in the following competitions;

  • 1st XI – Men's England Hockey League, BUCS Premier League, BUCS KO Championship
  • 2nd XI – Midlands Premier League, BUCS National League, BUCS Trophy KO Cup
  • 3rd XI – 1st XI Midlands Premier League, BUCS League Midlands 1A, BUCS Trophy KO Cup
  • 4th XI – Central League – Midlands Premier Division, BUCS League Midlands 2A, BUCS Conference KO Cup

The Women's 1st XI team competes in the Premier league of the Women's England Hockey League, BUCS . The team has had great success in BUCS having previously won the Hockey Championship for eleven years straight up to 2008 and are current champions.[5]

The women's club currently run five teams and compete in the following competitions;

  • 1st XI - EH Premier League, BUCS Premier League, BUCS KO Championship
  • 2nd XI - EH National League North, BUCS League National league, BUCS Trophy KO Cup
  • 3rd XI - Midlands Division 1, BUCS League Midlands 2B, BUCS Conference KO Cup
  • 4th XI - Leicestershire Women's League Premier Division, BUCS League Midlands 2B, BUCS Conference KO Cup
  • 5th XI - Leicestershire Women's League Division 1, BUCS League Midlands 4B, BUCS Conference KO Cup

Current squad

Notable players

Men's internationals

 England
 Ireland
 Scotland
 Wales
  • James Davies-Yandle
  • Matt Grace
  • Zak Jones
 Canada
  Switzerland
  • Fabio Reinhard
Others

Source:[8]

Women's internationals

 England
 Wales
 Scotland
  • Robyn Collins

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Loughborough Students". Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "How world hockey forged innovative partnership with Loughborough University - Telegraph". Telegraph. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Loughborough Students - FixturesLive". Fixtureslive.com. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "EHL Men's league tables". England Hockey. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "EHL Women's league tables". England Hockey. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "EHL Players - Men". England Hockey. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "EHL Players - Women". England Hockey. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Men's Hockey – Past Students – Loughborough Sport". loughboroughsport-test.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
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