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Next Club Social | Dinner Dance | Dates for your Diary | Indoor Report | Sponsors

HA News | Latest league positions | Website Update | Upcoming fixtures | Old stick plea

NEXT CLUB SOCIAL

Saturday 8th March, Race Night at the Clubhouse

Anyone who has taken part in a race night before, will know what's in store. The evening will be packed full of fun and excitement, as teams bet against each other, in the hope of backing the winning horse. The team that backs the most winners throughout the evening, will be rewarded with prizes.

DINNER DANCE

Mark your diaries the annual end of season Dinner Dance will take place at the Racecourse, on Saturday April 12th 2008. More information coming soon!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

March 15th - Men's last league game
March 8th - Race Night at the Clubhouse
April 3rd - Last training session of season
April 5th - Ladies last league game
April 12th - VP Day
April 12th - Dinner Dance

INDOOR

Ladies Indoor Tournament Report

Despite a battling win against the Army in the last group game of the West indoor tournament in Exeter at the end of December, the Ladies 1s narrowly missed out on the semis on goal difference. This will prove good experience and a building block for next season - with some of the squad never having played indoor before. Goal scorers were Nat Williams, Simone Williams, Fi Maffey and Kim Cook. Thanks to Demi for coaching the team.

NEWS FROM THE HA

The programme of Level One Coaching Assistant Award Courses for the remainder of this season is as follows:

Bournemouth, Dorset - 7, 9, 16 March
Tiverton, Devon - 28, 30 March & 6 April
Gloucester - 23, 26, 27 April
Chippenham, Wiltshire - 11, 14, 15 June
Redruth, Cornwall - 12, 14, 15 June

There will possibly be a course in the Bristol area in July and a course in Guernsey in the late spring.

If you require an application form for any of the above courses please email: West@englandhockey.org. Places are likely to be filled very quickly on all the courses - closing date for applications is 5 weeks prior to the course start date.

Additionally, there are still a few places available on the two Level Two Coach Award Courses:

10/11 May and 7/8 June in Exeter
17/18 May and 21/22 June in Bristol

Again, application forms are available via email: West@englandhockey.org

LATEST LEAGUE POSITIONS

With over half of the season gone, here is a list of Cheltenhams league positions to date:

Men's 1s - sitting in 7th place (of 12), having played 15, won 6, drawn 3 and lost 6
Men's 2s - sitting in 7th place (of 12), having played 16, won 7, drawn 3 and lost 6
Men's 3s - sitting in 9th place (of 12), having played 16, won 4, drawn 2 and lost 10
Men's 3As - sitting in 12th place (of 12), having played 16, won 2, drawn 3 and lost 11
Ladies 1s - sitting in 4th place (of 10), having played 12, won 7, drawn 1 and lost 4
Ladies 2s - sitting in 1st place (of 10), having played 12, won 9 and drawn 3
Ladies 3s -sitting in 9th place (of 10), having played 12, won 2, drawn 1 and lost 9

Don't forget that you can view full results on our Website: www.chelthockey.org

WEBSITE UPDATE

As the website goes from strength to strength, we'd thought we'd show you how popular the site has become. In the past 4 months, the site has received:

Over 41,000 page views, the most popular pages being:

Spotlight - 4,000 hits
Men's Pages - 3,500 hits
News Pages - 2,000 hits
Women's Pages - 2,00 hits
Fixtures/Results - 1,600 hits

2,218 unique visitors have come to our website From 34 countries around the world.

Thanks to everyone for sending us content keep up the good work!

New this month:

Check out the new photos in the Gallery: www.chelthockey.org/gallery/

See whose Player of the Week this week: http://www.chelthockey.org/

See the league tables, now added to the ladies pages: www.chelthockey.org/womens/

Check out the new Player Spotlights: www.chelthockey.org/spotlight/

New photos on CHC's group pages on www.facebook.com

Latest news and press coverage: www.chelthockey.org/news/

If you have any ideas for the website, or would like to add your personal profile to the spotlight area, please contact chicken@freerangemarketing.com

UPCOMING FIXTURES

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M1 = Men's 1s, M2 = Men's 2s, M3 = Men's 3s, M3A = Men's 3As, MC = Men's Castlers

L1 = Ladies 1s, L2 = Ladies 2s, L3 = Ladies 3s

Saturday February 9th

M1 v Cardiff Uni, 2:00pm Balcarras
L1 v Lansdown, 11:00am Balcarras
Cardiff & Uwic A v M2, 12:00pm Sophia Gardens
L2 v Leominster, 3:30pm Balcarras
M3 v Llan. & Caerphilly, 12:30pm Balcarras
Newent v L3, 12:30pm Newent
Cirencester A v M3A, 1:10pm Deer Park

Saturday February 16th

Marlborough v M1, 11:45am Marlborough College
M2 v Team Bath Buccs C, 2:00pm Balcarras
M3 v Newport, 12:30pm Balcarras
M3A v Leominster A, 3:30pm Balcarras
MC v Gloucester City D, 11:00am Balcarras

Saturday February 23rd

Gloucester City v M1, 12:30pm University of Gloucestershire
L1 v Clifton 2, 11:00am Balcarras
M2 v North Bristol, 2:00pm Balcarras
Hereford v L2, 1:00pm Hereford
Gloucester City B v M3, 2:00pm University of Gloucestershire
L3 v St Gregorys, 3:30pm Balcarras
Hereford A v M3A, 11:30am Hereford
MC v Hereford B, 12:30pm Balcarras

Saturday March 1st

M1 v ISCA, 2:00pm Balcarras
Team Bath Buccs v L1, 11:00am Bath Uni
Gloucester City A v M2, 12:30pm University of Gloucestershire
L2 v Cirencester, 12:30pm Balcarras
M3 v Neath, 3:30pm Balcarras
Bourton Vale v L3, TBD
Gloucester City C v M3A, 2:30pm St Peters
Newent B v MC, 3:30pm Newent

Don't forget that you can view all fixtures on our website: www.chelthockey.org/fixtures.php

OLD STICK PLEA

Karen and Angie are doing quite a bit of coaching in schools and at after school clubs. They have requested for any old sticks (junior or senior ones) that no-one uses anymore to be donated so that they can throw away the ones that no longer have a head from being scraped away on playgrounds! If anyone has any they would be very grateful. Please bring them to training or leave them at the clubhouse.