Club Finals will be held on the 18th September.

Strahan McIntosh – HBH General Manager

My name is Strahan McIntosh and I’m excited to be finally underway in the General Manager role at Hawke’s Bay Hockey. With the announcement of Level 2 yesterday I thought I would give an update of where we are at with our Return to Play Plan.

Firstly, thank you for your patience so far, as the information has been drip fed down from Government, to Sport NZ through Hockey NZ and finally to associations today. We would also like to reaffirm our priority is the health of our People, our Community and we thank our Partners for supporting us through this time.

Return to Play:

• The Senior Club Hockey Finals are scheduled for the 18th of September. Where both clubs have agreed not to play, these matches will not be scheduled. Teams unable to play are to contact Jill as soon as possible.
• The training facility will be available from Wednesday the 8th of September and you can book in at comps@hbhockey.org.nz

I also want to remind everyone of our code of conduct which can be found here: https://hbhockey.org.nz/documents/. This will soon be updated. As we look to conclude the season, no doubt passion and tensions will be high throughout the finals, please help us in making sure all participants maintain a high standard of behaviour on and off the turf.

I’m looking forward to meeting you all in due course, if you have any questions you think I can answer, my mobile is always on.

Kind regards,

Strahan McIntosh

General Manager
Hawke’s Bay Hockey

NZ will move into Level 2 at 11.59 Wednesday 8th September.

HBH have been working on the return to hockey in the last few weeks and now have further planning ahead to organize getting some hockey underway.

HBH will also be launching Summer Hockey registrations this week too.

We will be updating our Social media pages and the website over the coming days.

Hockey at Level 3

As we moved into Level 3 Tuesday 31st August at 11.59pm  – just a reminder that all hockey remains postponed and our facilities are closed.

We are looking forward to Alert Level 2 where we can all return to the turfs and get some hockey on!

We will keep you posted on how Alert Level 2 will be operating at the turfs and of course update you all on where to from here.

Take care

As you will have seen Level 4 remains in place until Tuesday 31st August at 11.59pm and then all of the Country except Auckland and Northland move to Alert Level 3.

Unfortunately this means that our facilities at Park Island and Mitre 10 Park – Unison Hockey turf remain closed.  Sport cannot resume until Alert Level 2.

Please refer to the Sport New Zealand guidelines around Play, recreation and sport at Level 3 and Level 2.

Sport at Level 3

Sport at Level 2

Update 24th August – Community Hockey

Hockey New Zealand and the 32 Associations have decided to postpone all community hockey throughout NZ, including the closure of associations/facilities until and including Tuesday 31st August.

The Secondary School tournaments that were scheduled to start on the 30th August have been cancelled and are under review awaiting further comms from School Sport NZ with clarity around these events hopefully early next week.

HBH announced on Thursday 19th August:

• All hockey has been postponed until Tuesday the 24th August and this will be reviewed following the Government announcement on Monday 23rd August at 4pm.

Secondary Schools Tournament:

• Secondary School tournaments within the Winter Secondary School Tournament week have cancelled.

Unison Medal Ceremony:

• Unison have cancelled their scheduled Medal Ceremony – they will be in contact with those schools who have nominated players.

HBH’s current Hazard Risk Register – to be reviewed and updated as required within the Covid Levels in Sport in the coming weeks.