For those of you who have missed the big sporting news from the weekend, and I don’t mean Mourinho to Manchester United or Jonny Bairstow winning the Test match for England on his home ground at Headingley, it was the England Hockey Award evening and dinner in Reading on Saturday night. After a long wait where lots of international players, coaches and umpires were rewarded for their respective success, the prizes for the club teams Read more
One day to go to the EH awards evening in Reading tomorrow where the invincibles from Leeds Adel Ladies first team will be well represented to see if they will win the EH Ladies Club Team of the Year award. After winning the league with a 100% record, and after squeezing through the tense play offs with a goal from a penalty corner after the full time whistle, plus a strong cup run in the Read more
This weekend sees the county championships take place at Wakefield for the ladies and Cannock for the men. Doing battle for Yorkshire will be one of our talented young players, Emma Bickley, which is a tremendous achievement for Emma and we all wish her well representing the white rose county over the weekend. As well as Emma on the playing side, Cheshire ladies have realised the quality of coaching at Adel and Sam Ransley and Read more
The ever popular summer hockey camps will be running again over the summer months to cater for all ages and all abilities. Some of these will be held at Adel but other locations around the county are also available if the dates or the venues are more convenient. Please click on the link below to find out more details and arrange booking. All of the camps have a structured programme that has been designed over the years Read more
Last week, the ladies 2s and their coaching staff were eagerly preparing for a play off game against Lindum ladies to determine who would be promoted to the North South East Div 2 next season. This was as a result of our Ladies 1s being successful in their play off game thereby creating an additional space in the division. After many emails between YHA, Leeds Uni and Leeds Adel I am disappointed to confirm that Read more
The ladies 2s could be forgiven for thinking that the season ended several weeks ago when they played their final league game to finish a credible 3rd in the Yorkshire Premier Division following their promotion the previous season. With Leeds 2s and Leeds University securing the top 2 spots for automatic promotion, the ladies 2s reflected on another successful season on the pitch and thoughts turned to the club dinner, the appointment of a new Read more