Pembrokeshire’s young hockey players in action

Pembrokeshire’s top young hockey players took to the field over the weekend as the Under 14 girls' squads from all six County Performance Development Centres and four boys squads took part in the South Wales U14 Performance Development Centre (PDC) festival at Swansea University on Sunday.
The festival marked the end of the hockey development programme, which has been running across South Wales this summer and the Pembrokeshire girls proved unbeatable as they won all their games while the boys U14 squad  - despite having six players under 11 - also played extremely well.

Very high standards

Angela Miles, Sport Pembrokeshire’s Hockey Development Officer, said  the overall standard of play has been very encouraging.
“It was particularly pleasing to see players executing well the core skills practiced at PDC training sessions,” she said. “We now look forward to September when the PDC will offer coaching opportunities to under 15 and under 17 youngsters in the County.”

Templeton shine

Meanwhile Templeton School represented Pembrokeshire at the Welsh Hockey Activate finals in Newtown earlier this month where they finished fifth – after drawing with the two finalists.

The primary school players had added inspiration from GB Olympian Sarah Thomas and Wales International Lee Ible, who were on hand to sign hockey sticks and give some valuable hockey advice!

Put you in the picture

The Boys U14 PDC squad: Jordan James, Evan Davies, Rhys Thomas, Gareth Owen, Rhys Armstrong, Lloyd Odey and Dafydd Bevan.
Not in picture Aled James, Steffan Lewis, Alistair Davies and Tom Meopham.
The Girls U14 PDC Squad: Meg Newman, Lucy Boughton, Abbie Severn, Kirstie Lewis, Ffion Richards, Hannah Lewis, Olivia Evans, Sophie Morse, Elli Norkett, Beckie Hayes and Rebecca Gwyther

The Templeton team are pictured with GB Olympian Sarah Thomas – the first Welsh woman to score a goal for a GB squad.