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WA Women's Service Awards 2023

During this year’s Masters Nationals in Perth, at the WA Women’s State Dinner on Monday 25 September, the following worthy people have been the recipients of this years the WA Women’s Masters Service Awards. The awards were kindly presented to the recipients by Laurie Packham:

Sandra Treloar

Sandra is a very well respected and dedicated representative nominated to receive the Award in recognition of Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Master’s hockey in Western Australia for 2023.

She has made significant contribution and addresses the criteria for master’s hockey within Western Australia as a player, administrator, leadership, coach, selector, umpire for 10+ years, (not necessarily consecutive years) at a State level, and at her Club and Association Metro and Country levels - Central Midlands Eastern Districts 1970-76, Roe District Association - Kulin Club 1976-1989, South Perth 1990-1993 and Peel Association 1993-2005 and at National Championships as a player, leadership, coach, umpire and selector.

WA National master’s hockey involvement:

Sandra has been involved in master’s hockey representing Western Australia for 10+ years from 1994 till 2023 as a player, coach, player/coach, leadership, umpire, and selector.

She began her involvement with WA master’s Hockey being selected in 1994 in the Over 45 team.

She has played in master’s hockey representing Western Australia for 12 years.

 

Sandra was a player WA National master’s hockey for 5 years:

1994 - 45+; 1995 - 45+; 1997 - 50+; 1998 - 50+ and 1999 – 50+

 

Sandra was an umpire WA National master’s hockey for 2 years - (as well as being a player):

2000 – 35+ and 1999 – 50+

 

Sandra was a coach WA National master’s hockey for 7 years: (4 years as a Player/Coach)

2000 - 35+; 2001 - 50+ (Ansett collapse – WA not able to attend, but trained the team up until we were not able to attend); 2002 - 50+; 2003 - 50+; 2004 - 55+; 2005 - 55+: and 2006 - 55+

 

Sandra has been a WA master’s selector for 5 years: -

2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and she came back into selecting in 2023, to help select the Over 45s teams.

 

Club Hockey and Country Week – Metro and Country Associations:

Sandra has been actively involved with playing, administrator, leadership, umpiring, coaching and selector for 45 years.

At Central Midlands 1962-1969; Eastern Districts 1970-1976; Roe Districts 1976-1989; South Perth (Now WASP) 1990-1993 and Peel Association 1993-2005.

Coach – Kulin hockey club - Roe Districts

Coach – Halls Head – Peel Association

Coach – Peel Association Country week teams – winning A Grade for the first time.

Coach – Roe District country week teams – many successes.

 

Club Official:

President - Roe District Association.

 

Other:

The over 55s WA women’s master’s hockey trophy is named after Sandra.

Sandra holds a Level B umpiring badge and a Level 2 Coaching Accreditation.

 

Suzanne Stoate

She is a very well respected and dedicated representative nominated to receive the Award in recognition of Outstanding Contribution to Women’s master’s hockey in Western Australia for 2023.

Suzanne has made significant contribution and addresses the criteria for master’s hockey within Western Australia as a player, administrator, and leadership person at a Western Australia masters state local / club level – WASPS Hockey club and at National master’s Championships and at an Australian level as a player and leadership person for at least 10years, (not necessarily consecutive years).

WA National master’s hockey involvement:

Suzanne began her involvement with WA master’s hockey being selected in the 2002 in the Over 35s team.

She has played in master’s hockey representing Western Australia for 12 years – 2003, 2004, 2005,2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017.

She has held a Leadership position in WA Over 50s team in 2017.

In 2023 Suzanne has been selected as a player in the Over 60s WA master’s team. This will be Suzanne’s 13th year playing for Western Australia.

 

Australian master’s involvement:

Suzanne has been selected in Australian master’s Trans-Tasman hockey teams in 2004, 2008, 2011, 2018, and a World Cup Australian team in 2018, achieving many successes.

In 2011 she was in the Leadership group as Co-Captain.

She was selected 4 other times in Australian teams but had to withdraw for personnel reasons.

 

Suzanne has been a WA women’s hockey master’s selector for 3 years (when she was not able to play)

2021, 2014 and 2013

 

Country Week Hockey:

Suzanne played country week hockey for Busselton for 4 years 1977-1980.

 

Club hockey:

Suzanne has been playing hockey for over 52 years, in WA country - Busselton association, overseas in London, and currently with WASP in the Perth Metro area. 

In 1978 she represented WA in the Under 16 team.

 

Mid-week master’s hockey:

Suzanne is currently playing mid-week master’s hockey for WASPs in Division 3.

She has been playing master’s hockey for over 20 years.

 

Club Official:

Suzanne is a longstanding Co-ordinator / Captain / Coach / Manager for over 16 years of the WASP masters women’s hockey teams.

Suzanne co-ordinated the inaugural WASP master’s team and with her persistent involvement, and her driving force was behind its on-field success - WASP team was promoted to the Rae Blunt Division 1, this also included an expansion of WASP masters hockey teams leading into a second and then a third team in the mid-week competition.

She was the recipient of the WASP club’s ‘Fallow’ Trophy in 2021 – for her contribution to the WASP’s masters’ women’s hockey teams.

Her dedication to the club teams is epitomised this year - she has played in Division 3 master’s team but has been the Team Manager for the 2s (with the weekly task of organizing the player list and logistics,) and when the fixtures did not clash, she managed the 2s on game day.

Suzanne alongside 2 other players have worked closely to ensure all 3 WASP master’s teams are able to field players each week, and to find players to assist with WASP’s weekend competition.

Suzanne has been a role model for up-and-coming masters’ hockey players to strive to play for their state.

She promotes and encourages WASPs players to nominate each year for the WA women’s master’s hockey teams.

She strives to play to the best of her ability for all - WASP club, WA state and Australian teams.

 

Thank you to Sandra and Suzanne for your continuing support to WA Women’s Masters Hockey!!

 

 

Men's HA Masters Championships - Change of Dates

Hockey Australia Masters has confirmed changes to the dates of the Men's National Championships in Hobart in July 2024.

2024 Hockey Australia Men’s Masters Championships dates and venue have been reviewed and confirmed dates for Hobart, Tasmania in July will be as follows: 

Venue:  Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart

Dates:   Friday 12 July until Saturday 27 July 2024 

Competitions will be conducted in two Tournaments to ensure shorter commitment dates for the 34-50 Men.

  • Tournament 2 34+ to 50+ Men:  Friday 12 July – Saturday 20 July 2024
  • Tournament 3 55+ to 65+ Men:  Tuesday 16 July* – Saturday 27 July 2024  (*There will be a staggered start to Tournament 3.  Teams will commence between 16 and 19 July).

                                  70/75+**   Men:   Sunday 14 July – Saturday 27 July 2024   **MA Men’s Masters Delegates have advised that no 80+ Men’s competition will go ahead in 2024.

 The HA Women’s Masters Championships, Tournament 1, remains Friday 28 June – Saturday 6 July 2024 in Sydney, NSW.

Australian Masters Service Award 2023

During the Welcoming Ceremony at the recent Australian Masters Championships in Perth on Wednesday 27 September, Nicola Ogden was presented with the Australian Masters Service Award for recognition of significant, outstanding, and sustained contribution to Australian Masters hockey at the national or international level underpinned by the ‘One Masters’ tenets of participation, performance, passion, and partnerships.

Nicola has also made significant contribution to master’s Hockey within Western Australia as a player, manager, and official person at a Western Australian master’s local and at her Club level at Melville City Hockey Club.

Western Australian master’s Manager:

2005, 2007, 2010 - WA master’s Women’s teams

2006 - WA master’s Men’s team

 

Western Australian women’s master’s selector:

2023, 2022, 2018, 2017.

 

Australian Masters Assistant Technical Officer / Tournament Director / Technical Delegate

2019 Assistant Technical Officer -Bunbury/Busselton WA (Men)

2017 September - October - Director Tournament Director - Nationals Masters Championships - Hobart, Tasmania

2016 September - October - Assistant Tournament Director - National Masters Championships (Men) - Adelaide SA

2014 September - October - Technical Officer - Perth WA (Men)

 

World Masters / Trans-Tasman Championships / World Cup - Assistant Technical Officer / Technical Officer / Technical Delegate: 2023 and before

2019 July - Technical Delegate master’s European Cup - Rotterdam - 35, 40, 45 age groups - Women and Men - Rotterdam, Netherlands

2019 June - Assistant Technical Officer Grand Master’s European Cup - 60, 65, 70, 75 age groups - Women and Men - Brasschaat, Belgium

2019 April - Technical Officer Trans-Tasman Championships - Women and Men - Gold Coast, Queensland

2018 September-October - Assistant Technical Officer - Men - Lismore and Ballina, NSW

2018 June - Assistant Technical Delegate - Grand master’s World Cup - Women and Men - Barcelona, Spain

2017 - Technical Officer - Trans Tasman - Women and Men - Whangarie New Zealand

2017 August - Technical Officer / Judge - Masters’ European Cup - Women and Men - Tilburg Netherlands

2016 Assistant Tournament Director - World Cup - Women and Men - Canberra ACT

 

Awards

2022–Life Membership Hockey WA.

2000-Melville City Hockey Club - Club person of the year.

2018-Hockey WA - Service to Officiating.

2011-Hockey WA - Volunteer of the Year.

200-Life Member of Melville City Hockey Club

 

Official positions:

Current 2023–2017 - Nicola is the chair of the Hockey WA Officiating Advisory Group

Nicola is a current international, national, and state level technical official.

March 2023  - She officiated at the women’s Australia vs China match in Bunbury.

2023 Technical Officer for Hockey Australia and Hockey WA.

She judges at the FIH Pro League and International test matches.

2022-Tournament Director Men’s National Masters Championships, Gold Coast 2022

2022-Hockey Australia Level 3 Technical Officer qualification.

2019- Member World master’s Hockey Development Committee (WMH)

2019- Member International master’s Hockey Association Officiating Committee (IMHA)

2018 at the Commonwealth Games, she took on a role within the technology team.

2018- 1996 Melville City Hockey Club Administration-

Vice President-Women, Vice President-Juniors, Secretary, Bar Manager, Coach, Manager for senior and junior teams for many years

2002-Volunteer receptionist / enquiries / desk operator Women’s World Cup, Perth

Nicola has led World Grand Masters, Trans-Tasman Masters, master’s Hockey World cups in Europe and Australia.

She has held other positions - Technical Officer / Assistant Technical Officer / Technical Delegate / Assistant Tournament Director / Volunteer Hockey Division Tokyo (2020) Olympics / Liaison Officer / Technical Judge / Manager:

At Local Hockey WA games, WA State level, Hockey Australia Championships level, World Hockey games held in Australia, Asia and Europe, Australian Indoor Championships, Underage Championships in Australia,

Nicola has been involved in all areas and age groups in Official capacity for many years.

 

Club Hockey

Nicola has been playing hockey for over 48 years for Harlequin Wanneroo, Towns-Northam, Murdoch University and Melville City Hockey clubs. 

Nicola has played mid-week master’s Hockey for Melville City master’s hockey club, being involved in many successful teams.

Nicola over her hockey career has been involved in coaching junior and senior hockey teams, having some success.

 

Encouragement of New master’s players

Nicola does a lot of behind the scenes work with organizing club masters’ teams, supporting ‘new’ master’s Players, and anything that needs to be done to support master’s hockey at a club level but also for master’s hockey in Western Australia, and at National master’s level.

Congratulations, Nicola for winning the Australian Masters Service Award.

 

 

WA Women's OFT 2024 Announced

Congratulations to the following OFT selected for the WA Women's Masters Teams to compete in the Masters Nationals in Sydney 2024:

 

Coach WO34                    Allison Rieck

Manager WO34                Tania Dickson

Medical WO34                  Patrick Renner

Coach WO40                    Tammy Cowan

Manager WO40                Cheryl Poustie

Coach WO45                    Temeka Curley

Manager WO45                Dee Middlemiss

Coach WO50                   Charlene Miller

Manager WO50                Lyn Piper

Coach WO55                    Elisabeth Parrick

Manager WO55                Pat Scott

Coach WO60                    Jo Sgro

Manager WO60                Cherryl Pages-Oliver

Coach WO65                    TBC

Manager WO65                Donna Treloar

Coach WO70                    Coleen Dayman

Manager WO70                Colleen Bentley

We are very close in securing selected OFT for the 2 vacant positions (O55s and O65s coach) but if you or someone you know is interested, please complete the nomination form available on the website and send to Jill.vanduuren@bigpond.com asap as we would like to finalize positions this or next week.

 

2024 Men's & Women's NOMINATIONS FOR WA STATE MASTER TEAMS OPEN

Hockey WA and the WA Masters Hockey Committee are pleased to announce that Nominations are open 
for players for 2024 Men’s and Women’s State Masters Teams.

You must be registered and logged-in to this website to be able to nominate.

WA Over 50's - 2006 Match Reports

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WA vs VIC - Friday, July 21, 2006

As we had soundly beaten Victoria in the final last year, we expected them to be looking for revenge. 
The first half was tight with no goals scored. 
In the second half we scored our first goal off a short when Janese and Gail did the triangle pass option. 
A second short corner goal was scored when Legs, following in after the push in flicked in a loose ball.  
Our final goal came when Kymberley ran the ball into the circle and laid off to Chifley who put it in on the second attempt. 
An indication of the strength our defenders was the fact that the opposition had no short corners. 
A goal each to Karen, Betty and Sue. Great work, girls!

Result: WA 3 - VIC 0


WA vs QLD - Saturday, July 22, 2006

Today's game was at 8-30pm. A bit cooler but a long wait. 
This was a pretty hard game against a quality Queensland opposition. They marked us well and scored a goal in the first half. 

We played better in the second half but they put in another one. 
Janes laid off to Kymberley on a short and her shot was deflected off the goal line by a defenders foot to earn a penalty stroke. Macca’s shot hit the inside of the post but deflected back into the field of play. 
We were out-running QLD at the end and had a few other chances but we couldn’t find the net. 
Credit to Queensland who played a good game to beat us.

Result: WA 0 - QLD 2


WA vs ACT - Sunday, July 23, 2006

Today we played at 2-30pm and it certainly was hot. It was a challenge to keep going in the heat but we ran the game out. 
We scored first when Betty had a chance to run into the cricle on her own and hit the ball over the sliding keeper. 
ACT equalised shortly afterwards and the score remained 1-1 until half time. 

We had most of the play in the second half and finally scored again when a shot from Maris was deflected into the net by Ali – her first goal for WA. 
Janese then scored after shooting from the top of the circle.

Result: WA 3 - ACT 1


WA vs NT - Monday, July 24, 2006

We played NT today, one of the weaker sides so we needed not just to win, but to get a decent goal difference. 
It was a bit disappointing, after having most of the play, to be only 1 up at half time, with Macca converting a penalty stroke about half way through. 

The goals started flowing 7 minutes into the second half, when Kymberley clouted a rebound off a short corner into the back of the net. 5 minutes later Macca took a quick free just outside the circle, with Kymberley deflecting it and Betty guiding the bouncing ball past the goalie. 
Kymberley scored her second off a short and then Legs put 2 in to give us 4 in 10 minutes. 
Karen’s first was a shot from the top of the circle off a rebounded shot from Sue. It went in about shoulder height just inside the left post across to the spot from Ev gave Karen a relatively easy deflection for her second. 

The defence did their job again keeping NT scoreless and restricing them to just the one short corner. 

NT gives a best opposition player award in each game and presented a small plaque to Janese for our match. 

The 6-0 result matches NSW’s score yesterday. They look like our rival for second spot, with both of us only losing the one game to Qld so far.

Result: WA 6 - NT 0


WA vs SA - Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Our game today was at noon against SA. We followed the adage “score early and score often” with our first goal coming in under 40 seconds, when Betty pushed it in after a rush forward from the centre push involving 3 or 4 of the team. 
Two minutes later Janese scored off a short corner. 
JR, who had not played until today due to a hamstring injury, subbed on for the first time at the 11 minute mark and had scored by the 12th. Janese scored again from a short corner at 26 minutes. 
Kymberley had a goal which was knocked in off her glove disallowed but made up for it a few minutes later by stealing a pass outside the 25m area and then running down to and along the back line and pushing it in behind the keeper. This put us 5-0 at half time. 

Kymberley scored again with a drag around the keeper to open the second half scoring and Janese scored again from a penalty corner. 
Betty scored on a shot that came up off the goalie to the top of the net and Kymberley got her hat trick with another drag around the keeper. Our 9-0 win is the biggest so far in the tournament. 
The backs made sure no goals were scored on the other side of the ledger.

Result: WA 9 - SA 0


WA vs NSW - Thursday, July 27, 2006

This was our final round robin game with our bye coming in the last round. 
We played NSW knowing whoever won would be in the gold medal playoff and that a draw would mean NSW would need 14 goals in their last game to knock us out of second place. 

The first goal would be an important psychological advantage, but despite a number of good chances we were unable to finish them off. 
The break-through finally came on a short, with the ball going from Janese back to Karen on the left post, then across to Betty on the right. 

We continued to press the attack but it wasn’t as one sided as the last 2 games and our defenders worked hard to keep NSW out. 
Many times we saw Macca or Maris transfer the ball across the back to Gail or Lorraine to start our attack down the right side. 
PD came out and cleared a few that got past the full backs and the defensive short corner battery again kept a clean slate. 

When Betty scored our second goal, again off a corner, we knew we had them on the ropes. 
Don’s plan was to clear to the corners and force them to bring the ball all the way from their back line all the time. This gave us many chances to turn the ball over and counter attack. 

When Kymberley put in our 3rd off a short corner late in the second half, they knew they were finished. 

A great team effort to prove we deserve to play for the gold on Saturday and that we are more than capable of winning it.

Result: WA 3 - NSW 0


Final - WA vs QLD - Saturday, July 29, 2006

Tonight we played Queensland for the gold medal. 
They beat us 2-0 when we played earlier and unfortunately the result was the same in this match. 

We had our chances but couldn't finish them off and all credit to Q who played well. 

By the time we'd finished our own presentation (this time we actually got medals) and changed, the 35s match was well under way. We did get to see them score their one and only goal to win for the first time ever. 

A lot of celebration Saturday night both at the grounds and then at the apartments, going on till 3 or 4 am. 

The 40s finished 3rd and the 45s and 55s were 4th, so overall a better result than last year.

Result: WA 0 - QLD 2