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;

• 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

Men

• Murray Collins – Scotland
• Ronan Harvey-Kelly - GB U21
• Ed Greaves – Scotland
• Evan Kimber - GB U21
• Matthew Ramshaw - GB U21
• Tom Crowson - GB U21
• Hamish Roberts - Scotland U21
• Rohan Bhuhi - GB U21
• Daniel West - GB U21
• Elliot Smith – England U18

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Women

• Lizzie Neal -GB Senior
• Charlotte Watson - GB Senior
• Izzy Petter - GB Senior

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Notable players

Men's internationals

Richard Alexander David Beckett Jon Bleby Paul Bolland Andy Bull Clyde Camburn

Nicholas Catlin David Condon Harry Gibson Mark Gleghorne Jerome Goudie

Adam Harper Michael Johnson Glenn Kirkham Jason Lee Iain Lewers Steve Long

Iain Mackay James Mazarelo Sean Rowlands Stuart Rushmere Ian Sloan Richard Smith

Samuel Ward Henry Weir David Whitaker Alastair Wilson Duncan Woods

Timothy Cockram Fergus Gibson Mark Gleghorne Paul Gleghorne John Jackson

Iain Lewers Stuart Loughrey Ian Sloan David Smyth

• • Alistair McGregor David Ralph
• Derek Salmond
• Mark Zander

• James Davies-Yandle
• Matt Grace
• Zak Jones

• Fabio Reinhard

Others

• Danny Kerry - England/Great Britain coach

Women's internationals

Giselle Ansley Jennie Bimson Catherine De Ledesma

Maddie Hinch Katie Long Hannah Macleod Lizzie Neal Mary Nevill Charlotte Watson

Isabelle Petter Miriam Pritchard Ellie Rayer Laura Unsworth Nicola White Kerry Williams

Emma Batten Beth Bingham Hannah Cozens

Megan Lewis-Williams Phoebe Richards

• Robyn Collins

Honours

• Men's National Cup
  • Runners Up: 2004–05

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.