Sporting your life vicariously – the last Tournament – Pictures and Video

Some of the pictures from the last game of College Hockey for #2 Daughter - Federation Cup 2012 - Carterton - there is a YouTube too, just because I discovered how to do that !

The movie has the sequence in order of an obstruction call that she didn't get given and ends with some hand waving and chirping of the umpire. Wonder where she get's that from :-)

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The game Rangitoto College against Palmerston North Girls for 13/14th place. It ended 5-2 to Rangitoto who were altogether the better team.
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Sporting your life vicariously – the last Tournament - Aftermath

The Final Federation Cup Hockey Tournament for the #1 Daughter is done and dusted.

After the two games on Monday the dye had been cast and the girls were then in the bottom half off the draw - the bottom 8, which was confirmed after a further loss on the Tuesday.

Wednesday's game, against, surprisingly Whangarei GHS, meant that the loser would effectively be relegated from the tournament the following year.

It didn't go well, the Rangitoto girls turned up to play in a very terse, nervous and sombre mood. And this translated to a ponderous and withdrawn match that they lost easily to a very motivated Whangarei team.

Thursday then, nothing to lose and a match against Kristin School, who, ironically are the closest school to Rangitoto College in Auckland. They have "the wood" on them and 1-0 doesn't really do justice to a match that Rangitoto dominated for he large part

And so to a final game, in the pouring rain, and #1 seeding for the Marie Fry tournament next year, and a comprehensive 5-2, smiles and high fives all round.

• Mon 3rd Sep  Round 1 Pool C Rangitoto College Craighead Diocesan  LOSS 0 - 2 


• Mon 3rd Sep  Round 2 Pool C Rangitoto College Villa Maria College LOSS 2 - 4 


• Tue 4th Sep    Round 3 Pool C St Cuthbert's College Rangitoto College LOSS 3 - 0 


• Wed 5th Sep  Crossover Round 4 Whangarei Girls' High Rangitoto College LOSS 4 - 0


• Thu 6th Sep   Crossover Round 5 Rangitoto College Kristin School WIN 1 - 0 


• Fri 7th Sep   Final Round Rangitoto College Palmerston North Girls WIN 5 - 2 

Final Results and Placings

• 1 St Cuthbert's College


• 2 Wairarapa College


• 3 Diocesan School


• 4 Rangi Ruru Girls


• 5 Villa Maria College


• 6 St Margaret's College


• 7 Epsom Girls Grammar


• 8 St Hilda's Collegiate


• 9 Whangarei Girls' High


• 10 Craighead Diocesan


• 11 St Matthew's Collegiate


• 12 Christchurch Girls High


• 13 Rangitoto College


• 14 Palmerston North Girls


• 15 Kristin School


• 16 Gisborne Girls High

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From the St Cuthbert's ANZAC Hockey Festival.

I wrote about the saga of the School Uniform blazers. These are just a few of the picture I took of MissPdubyah at the St Cuthbert's ANZAC Hockey Festival which is a secondary schools pre-season 3 day event, attracting visiting teams from all over the country.

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Sporting your life vicariously

 

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As you may know I'm big on supporting my children in their endeavours, particularly sporting ones.

Ms16 plays a mean game of field hockey, and it's between seasons now so all she has on is an 8-a-side thing and a social league thing, so we're down to 3 visits a week to the turf (one of for a sporting academy thing).

Making sure that it's important to have the best (we can afford) equipment we notice that the hockey shoppe has a sale on, so a chance to buy a new stick at a reasonable price, even if it's exactly the same as the one you have now it's still a lot cheaper than a '11 model. Makes sense.

Having traipsed to the shoppe on a weekend to try out some new(old) sticks we get a shrug and an "I don't know". Something is afoot,

Seems that there is a new kid in town - www.toahockey.com - a couple of kiwi blokes who are trying to break into the market with a small range of sticks, and MS16 has a friend that uses one and loves it - hey even the block in the hockey shoppe whispers to us that they are great and he has one - but would get sacked if the boss heard him say so.

So Ms16 arranges with them to try out one. And guess what - the one they put up is their best one, which is "ok". But worse! they take it away and are "gripping" properly for her - clearly they've discussed her preference.

At $349 there had better be wriggle room - after all this is a this year model and not an '11, and it will be nice to have something that players she knows, and international level, are advising her and telling her what's what. You never know they may suggest the cheaper one

- I'm not holding my breath.

Keeping up with the kids

It's a bit like living your live vicariously, but there is an awful amount of herding and shepherding going on at the moment with the daughter.

You'll know, or you will now, that she likes field hockey. A lot.

We got through the summer league thing ok, that's where she organised a team herself of her girl-friends and some boy's. They by all accounts finished 3rd, who knows

A short break later and back at school then and now we have

Club Trials
School Team Trials
Under 18 Representative Level Trials
Hockey High Performance Academy
and of course the associated training for each of these

And although they are all only a couple of km's from home the car can almost get there and back on it's own.

But being proud and all that the way it's working out is

Club level - Premier Team - playing now in the Intercity Trophy games , a kind of pre-season thing. ECB are the defending champions. Briar is the youngest in the team, but by no means the least capable.

School Team - Well she is hoping for the A team , who knows with school

Under 18 North Harbour Representative - Of course GirlChild wants to be in the A team - however the coach is an arse. His assitant is fantastic. Coach still an arse. I don't know there will be a problem if she only makes the B team. She is after all only 15.

And all of that means fund-raising, fees, travel and sitting about in various locations watching and clapping politely for the rest of the year.