Loughborough Students' Hockey Club Explained

Clubname:Loughborough Students' Hockey Club
Ground:Loughborough University
Manager:Nick K (Men's), Paul Gannon (Women's)
Coach:Jerome Goudie (Men's), Brett Holland (Women's)
Captain:Daniel Faulkner (Men's) Ella Cusack (Women's)
League:Men's England Hockey League
Women's England Hockey League
Midland Regional Hockey Association
BUCS League
Kit Alt1:Purple/Purple/Grey
Kit Alt2:White/White/White

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;

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;

Current squad

Men

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Women

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Notable players

Men's internationals

Others

Women's internationals

  • Emma Batten
  • Beth Bingham
  • Hannah Cozens
  • Megan Lewis-Williams
  • Phoebe Richards

Honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Loughborough Students. 2015-01-29.
  2. Web site: How world hockey forged innovative partnership with Loughborough University - Telegraph. Telegraph. 2014-10-30. 2015-01-29.
  3. Web site: Loughborough Students - FixturesLive. Fixtureslive.com. 2015-01-29.
  4. Web site: EHL Men's league tables. England Hockey. 2015-01-29. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141011200147/http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/fl/ehl/tables.asp?section=355. 2014-10-11.
  5. Web site: EHL Women's league tables. England Hockey. 2015-01-29.
  6. Web site: EHL Players - Men. England Hockey. 2015-02-04.
  7. Web site: EHL Players - Women. England Hockey. 2015-02-04.