Important Information
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Players who are affiliated to Hockey Northland in 2025
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Northland Province of Origin players who have met the 2025 HNZ Tournament Rules
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Players who fit the HNZ U18 age criteria
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Under 18 at the 1/1/25
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15 & over at the 1/1/25
#Please note: Any players who play in the U18 tournament are not eligible to play in any other age group festival/tournaments.
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Women's trials
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Sunday March 30th 10am to 12pm
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Sunday April 6th 10am to 12pm
Men's trials-
Sunday March 30th 4pm to 6pm
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Sunday April 6th 4pm to 6pm
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Selected Teams
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U18's Taniwha Programme
Train to Compete
For the U18 age group the training focus shifts from ‘train to develop’ to ‘train to compete’. Athletes enter this stage based on individual commitment and performance results, as well as having achieved the objectives of the ‘train to develop’ stage. They participate in high-intensity individual-, event- and position-specific training within a high-quality training environment. Athletes will now have to learn to perform skills under a variety of competitive conditions and will be challenged to compete at a national level to develop competition skills and abilities. Although winning games is a pursuable goal, the focus during games and tournaments must still see development and growth go over winning!
National U18 Tournament
The National U18 Tournament is now the first national tournament opportunity for all players/umpires/coaches/managers, and allows an opportunity to represent Northland on the National stage.
The 2025 U18 tournaments will be held in North Harbour (Women) and South Canterbury Timaru (Men) on the 29th June - 5th July 2025.
The results for the tournament are available on Altiusrt. We will post once they are available.
Trials and Selections
Northland would like to encourage all eligible players to register for the U18 Men's and Women's open trials.
There is an expectation that players are available to attend team trainings and play in pre-tournament games.
If there are sufficient numbers from the registrations, there may be the potential to put together U18 development teams to train and play against other association teams in the Northern Region.
Trials will be held at the Whangārei ITM Hockey Centre.
To register - https://forms.gle/g3xu5zmTytGuEkaC6