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OFT for Women's Masters Hockey 2025 Hobart

Congratulations to the OFT placed into the following teams:

 
Coach 
Manager
0ver 34
Elisabeth Smith
Tania Dickson
over 39
Thor Amundsen
Lyn Piper
over 44
Joanne Sgro
Donna Treloar
over 49
Charlene Miller 
Carrie Parsons
over 54
Nathan Smoker 
Pat Scott
over 59
Troy Kelly
Adrienne Holt
over 64
Suzanne Wood
Lauren Newman
over 69
Damian Della
Janine Tate

Update on Trials at UWA

Saturday 12th April 2025 

7am        34, 39, 44, 49s 

9am         54, 59, 64, 69s

Sunday 13th April 2025

8am      34, 39, 44, 49s

9am      54, 59, 64, 69s

No state or Australian colours

The canteen will not be opening.

 

 

 

2026 World Cup Selectors, Coach's, Managers Men's & Women's

2026 WMH World Cup Selectors, Coach's, Manager's Nominations

The HAMC committee are happy to open up the nomination process for positions for the 2026 WMH World Cup - Australian  Selectors, Coaches and Managers.

We are still waiting for the official dates, Venue's & Countries to be announced on June 15th 2025 from WMH.

These positions will be named in time to allow for nominees to officiate at the Australian Nationals in Hobart (Women) and Newcastle (Men) for Sept/Oct 2025.

 

HAMC hope to encourage New nominees as we will be looking for the following.

Convenor, 

Panel Chair (per age group), 

Selector (Full time),

Assistant Selector (part time)

Coaches and Managers for Australian Teams for Men's and Women's.

More details can be found in each nomination category.

 

Contingent managers will be selected at a later date once nominations for those positions are opened.

Player nominations will open within the next few weeks once the venues have been named. 

 

Please see link below to the HAMC web page

2026 WMH World Cup Selectors, Coach's, Manager's Nominations

 

For further information please contact either

admin@hamc.org.au

or

admin.teams@hamc.org.au

WA Men's Masters OFTs Announced 2025

Congratulations to the following men's teams OFT who have appointed:
 
 
  2025 OFT Appointments for Mens Masters State Tournament
  AGE Group Manager  Coach 
35's 34 - 38 Martin Ferrari Julie Branley
40's 39 - 43 Vacant Vacant
45's 44 - 48 Antony Eaton Vacant
45's Div 2 Vacant Damien Pougnault
50's 49 - 53 Scott Fraser Alan Kearnan
55's 54 - 58 Stewart McDonald Alan Colthart
60's 59 - 63 Paula Dick Brian Saxby
60's Div 2 Naomi Noble Michael Jensen
65's 64 - 68 Lynn Lockett Stephen Pestana
70's 69 - 73 Shane Knapp Wayne Cutler
75's 74 - 78 William Campbell Butch Worth
80's 79 -  Vacant Vacant
 
 
Trials are scheduled to take place on Monday Evening 2 June at PHS (34s to 60s) and Wednesday 4 June from 11am at PHS.
 
WAMHC

Men's 2025 State Teams Announced

Thank you to all the players who have nominated for this year’s WA Men's master’s teams to compete in the Nationals in Newcastle in September/October 2025. Also, a big thank you for all the selectors and OFT for your commitment and efforts getting the teams selected. We appreciate everything you do for Masters.

Congratulations to the following players selected in our WA Men’s Masters Teams:

Note: teams for Over 34, 40, 45 Div 1 / Div 2, Over 50 Div 2 and Over 55 Div 2 are yet to be determined.  We will keep you posted.

 

Over 50s

Todd Barrett
Benjamin Bott
Ben Fraser
Scott Fraser
Richard Gardiner
Michael Illingworth
Shane Jamieson
Kristan Jobe
Alan Kearnan
Gordon Mathwin
Justin Mercy
Matt Read
Steve Sexton
Brian Siva
Jason Thompson
Daniel Woodward

 

Over 55s

Anton Brown
Allan Colthart
Craig Emslie
Warren Farrow
Bruce Hancock
Pat Knott
Drew Loxley
Mark Lyons
Scott Macdonald
Stewart McDonald
Matthew Needham
Mark Oosterling
Stephen Reid
Cameron Robinson
Andrew Sanders
Nathan Stevenson
Paul Tang

 

Over 60s

Robert Behets
Bruce Campbell
Stuart Campbell
Peter Connolly
Alan Dick
Geoff Horsley
Andrew Johnston
Tony Jones
Brian Kelly
Chris Kennedy
Kevin Knapp
Tim Mcdonald
Ken O'Driscoll
Russell Rieck
Brian Saxby
Nick Seddon
Michael Watson
Darran Wilson

 

Over 60 Division 2

Peter Barblett
Dominic Berry
Wayne Brittan
Trevor Cook
Darryl Dedman
Kevin Dempster
Ray Embry
Marcus Frayne
Paul Huggett
Nick Hyde
Michael Jensen
Alex Le Dain
Scott Morgan
Steven Noble
Tim Reynolds
Greg Ryan-Gadsden
John Sims
Michael Sputore

 

Over 65

Andrew Barker
Shaun Bunn
Craig Burgess
Paul Cartwright
Peter Crowe
David Elliott
Martin Ferrari
David Lockett
Graeme Malatesta
John McGuckin
John Pestana
Stephen Pestana
Bede Rogers
Paul Scicluna
Jeremy Walsh
Michael Waters
Russell Wood

 

Over 70

Peter Aylmore
Eddie Bartnik
Wayne Cutler
Maurice Giles
Colin Howell
Peter Kontor
Thomas Long
Graeme Nicholls
John Ostaszewskyj
Geoff Robinson
Peter Selfe
David Sheridan
Ian Simes
Richard Staynor
Peter Westlund
Phil Wilson
Greg Wood

 

Over 75

William Campbell
Harrill Challenor
John Chapman
Dudley Evans
Peter Fogels
Thomas Freeman
Bruce Goetze
Ian Kealley
K Y Lee
Peter Morgan
Ian Pestana
Keith Platel
Don Sanders
Len Walker
Bob Woodrow
Lance Woods
Graeme Worth

 

Over 80

Kenneth Beer
Scott Blackwell
Len Blyth
Alan Bryce
Robert Butler
Graham Challenor
Robert Claxton
Peter Eastlake
John Harper
Peter Livingstone
Peter Murray
Rod Spencer
Ronald Venables
Les Waldon
Ken Walter
Peter Willett
Simon Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WA Women's Masters OFTs Announced 2025

Congratulations to the following women's teams coaches who have appointed:
Elisabeth Smith, Charlene Miller, Thor Amundsen, Joanne Sgro, Damian Della, Troy Kelly, Suzanne Wood, Nathan Smoker
 
Congratulations to the following women's teams managers who have been appointed:
Pat Scott, Adrienne Holt, Janine Tate, Lyn Piper, Tania Dickson, Carrie Parsons, Donna Treloar, Lauren Newman
 
Congratulations to the following Medical appointment:
Patrick Renner
 
Coaches and Managers will not be aligned to any team until player nominations are in.
 
Championships to take place in Hobart from 23rd September to 5th October, 2025
 
WAMHC

WA Over 60's - 2012 Match Reports

 

26 September 


We all gathered at Perth Airport bright and early for our big trip east, turned out to be a very long day finally arriving at Mantra on The Park late in the day. We all gathered at around 7pm, went walking up Lygon Street to find a place to eat, found a lovely Italian restaurant had a great meal together. A little later the 40’s and 45’s arrived so the restaurant did real well out of WA. 

27 September 


Up early and some went walking, very brave and came back with fresh vegies from the markets. Drivers had to go to Hertz to collect our Kia Carnivals for the team. Once organized had the team meeting then off to the stadium to train at midday. Afternoon off, all ladies did some shopping for supplies for their rooms. Majority gathered later and had Thai for dinner while others did their own thing. 


WA vs NSW - Friday, September 28, 2012

Competition starts today our first game against NSW at 10 am.  
Went to the turf early to watch a bit of the 40’s and our opposition.  
All quite nervous naturally, thunder and lightning during the first game so that was held up for about 20 minutes. 

A rather wet morning but hockey is a winter sport.  
The game started on time NSW won the toss to have the ball.  
Dotty intercepted the pass going to their wing, Legs called for it to go down the line, Dotty obliged and Legs took the ball into the circle to win a short corner.  
All this in about 50 seconds, gathered at the top, Legs was supposed to hit out to Macca for a shot, only the ball went to Avis, controlled held long enough and passed to Macca who put the ball straight inside the right post. Scored within the first minute yahoo.  
Rest of that half we played really well and had the better of NSW just couldn’t get another corner or goal.  

Score was 1 all at half time. Second half more of the same some really good passages of play.  
At the 8 minute mark tragedy struck and we lost Loz to a hamstring injury, a little later we lost Vicki when she was struck on the ankle bone and could hardly walk let alone run. So with a couple off it changed our game a little bit.  

It was a good game played in good spirits. Unfortunately for us NSW scored in the last 2 minutes rather controversially. So it was WA 1 - NSW 2 a disappointing loss. 


Result: WA 1 - NSW 2


WA vs XXX - Saturday, September 29, 2012




Result: WA n - XXX n


WA vs VIC - Sunday, September 30, 2012


Today is a morning game at 10.15 am this is the last of our morning games and we hope to change our luck with a win.  

Once again we had a hard fought battle on our hands, we had a game plan that should give us success. WA had about 80% of the play and scored first again of a short corner. Unusual corner as ball inserted to Macca who had a shot, ball went between the legs of Vic defence to go sideways popping out for Pat Halden to slot it in. Half time and we are 1 nil up. 

Second half was more of the same with some really good hockey being played by both teams. Vic scored off at short corner at the 42 minute mark to be 1 all. Then further play and we had a couple of short corners without success. Vic scored once again but this time a field goal at the 47 minute mark. The game continued much the same but we couldn’t get that damn ball in the net. 

We are missing our two runners Jane and Lorraine and it is starting to show as we have two less subs than all the other teams. WA 1 – Vic 2, at least we are the most consistent team. 

Result: WA 1 - VIC 2 

Goal scorers: Pat Halden 


Rest Day - Monday, October 1, 2012


Yeah rest day, about time for all of us. Some went their own way and just had a great day. Some went to watch the early games to support our youngsters in their games. Some did some shopping but overall we all had some well earned rest.  

Monday night all 6 WA teams went to the pub Cooper’s Inn and had dinner together. It is the one time all teams get together to have some fun. Naturally the 60’s did their usual, a skit to entertain all. Was well received and some fun was had by all. The title this year was Little Red Rocking Hood. Nancy was Red Rocking Hood, Legs the Big Bad Wolf, Avis as Granny, KK Chief of Police, Pat B, Pat H, Hoody, Tapps, Shirley, Dotty were Police and the dancing girls were Macca, Karen Adams, Lorraine and Ev, last we had Sam (Carol) as props e.g. police siren etc 

An enjoyable evening was had by all and very pleased this tradition of all teams gathering will continue for years to come. 


WA vs NSW - Tuesday, October 2, 2012


Round two starts today as there are only 4 teams in the over 60’s. Afternoon game this time at 13.45 pm. Another tough battle it turned out to be. Having gone down 2-1 the first time we were working hard to make sure that would not be the case today. Once again it was an even battle with both teams very determined to gain a valuable win. WA scored their first field goal in sensational style. Ball was in the right hand corner and was passed into the circle for Avis to sort of trap and put the ball up over the head of the goalie into the net. Not sure Avis knows how she did it but looked spectacular and we will definitely take those, that was at the 11 minute mark of the first half. Unfortunately NSW scored a field goal at the 16 minute mark as well. Half time 1 all 

Second half started with more of the same type of play, both teams doing really well. WA starting to put it together and the defence working hard to keep NSW out but they scored another field goal at the 43 minute mark, bummer down our usual 2 -1. We focused really hard and played some good solid hockey and at the 64 minute mark we got a short corner. Legs inserted to Sam who put it right to Macca who sort of muffed the hit but eventually got back to Legs who put it away. Score 2 all and that was the final score. At last we had a point and not a loss.  

Result: WA 2 - NSW 2


WA vs QLD - Wednesday, October 3, 2012


Well the 60’s started the day with a breakfast for all the states to get together as we all have afternoon games. Breakfast was at the Sanctuary Golf Course at Point Cook. Q are staying out there and did the organizing of the morning. Lovely spot to have breaky. A great opportunity to mix and get to know players form all states. NSW team members told Tapps our coach that we are the hardest team to play which to us is a real compliment. Great morning was had even though it seemed to be a fair distance to go for our breakfast. 

The game though was at 3.30 pm so had time to wind down after breaky. The game was more of the same as Q tend to play a system and can be quite hard to conquer. We had a plan, at least Tapps had a plan, decided to go for broke and we would do a full field press for the first 11 minutes. Not sure we all got it but it did seem to work quite well. Pretty even game over all and both teams playing well. We managed to stay with Q and get on top of their system ok. Only had a couple of corners today but no goals scored. As we are two players short we are holding up really well and managed another draw today. 



Result: WA 0 - QLD 0 


WA vs VIC - Thursday, October 4, 2012


Not a good game for us today, our worst game as Vic game out firing after being beaten by NSW the day before 4-0.  
It was a very hot day with a the temperature being around 30 degrees. Not real good for us at this time as our legs were starting to slow down. 

Every team is allowed one bad game and this was ours. WA 0 – Vic 3 

Result: WA 0 - VIC 3 


Rest Day - Friday, October 5, 2012


As we didn’t finish first or second we had the day off. The grand final between NSW & Vic was played on Friday with NSW being victorious 2 – 0. 

All of WA 60’s spent the day shopping and floating on the river, visiting friends and generally just relaxing, preparing for the 8 am game on Saturday. 


Playoff for 3rd place: WA vs QLD - Saturday, October 6, 2012


Up early for third against fourth this morning. Got to the turf on time for a change and ready to go. We once again tried our full field press, which did seem to confuse the opposition and occasionally us. 

It was a really hard fought game which was played in great spirit. WA did seem to have the best part of the game in hand, with quite a few penalty corners. We actually scored a field goal in the first half. A quick pass was sent out left to Pat Halden who passed the ball quickly into the circle to be put into the net by Legs. This was at the 16 minute mark. Unfortunately at the 30 minute mark QLD scored off a penalty corner to be 1 all at half time.  

Second half we had at least 90% of the play but didn’t put the ball in the back of the net. Had lots of penalty corners which didn’t seem to work today when in fact they had been working all tournament. 

The final few seconds of the game was very controversial. In deep defence and Q tried real hard to put the ball in the circle, we managed to keep it out. A ball went to the right side of the circle, the siren went and the umpire called a 16 yard hit. Q played on as the ball went into the goal and Q were declared the winners, much to our disgust as the umpire had not actually blown the whistle on the siren. So another rotten last second loss. 

Overall the 60’s tournament was a very close one between all states, not much goal difference in any of the games. Our Coach Lyn Tapper did a fantastic job and the team definitely enjoyed their time in Melbourne. Pat Booth the Manager was also very much appreciated by all. 

Hope to see you all next year in Adelaide. Cheers 


Result: WA 1 - QLD 2 

Goal scorers: Legs