Tornados Hockey News: THC - Roger's Update

Good Morning Tornados,

Another weekend down in 2016 already!
The hockey season will start before we know it, so we better start getting into shape!!

TRAINING TIMES BELOW

Talking about getting in shape, that's exactly what the committee spent Saturday doing! Getting ready for yet another amazing Tornados year. Check out the message from our President to see what to expect from your club this year.

Message from our President

Dear Tornados,

We, the committee members, had our kick off meeting on 16th Jan and we would like to share our ideas with you.

First of all, we decided to have two main goals for the committee and we would measure all our actions and decisions against these two goals. The goals are as below:

We would like that all Tornados teams play interesting and good hockey and end up at least the top half of their respective SHF leagues. We would like to win at least 3 tournaments we enter our teams in. We would also like to get our 3rd Men's team back in the 3rd league.
We would like our club to maintain the "inclusive" club image and we would bring all teams socially together and every member shall have the feeling that she/he belongs to the club.

To achieve these goals we made an action plan and to keep you all informed and get your feedback, we would like to share our plan with you. In case you feel that we have missed out any aspects and you would like us to consider those, please do approach any of the committee members and we are more than happy to consider your suggestions.

To achieve our hockey goals, we have planned the following:

We would have 4 Men's teams and 2 Women's teams this year in SHF leagues. There would also be a third Women's team which would be more of a social team and would comprise of players who have started with the sport. These members would also have a reduced membership fees and once they feel confident and would like to participate in tournaments than they would be given the chance. For more details please contact, Simon Read, Director of Hockey.
All teams would have coaches, managers and key players identified now in January itself to run the teams throughout the year. However, the captains of the teams would be announced only after the respective team selections. Please contact for further information Andrew Barnadiston for Men's teams and Meagan Reus for Women's teams.
Team selections for the Men's 1&2 and Women's 1&2, as the league is starting in first half of the year, would happen on a selection day (Feb 20th 2016). The Selection to the teams would be based on three criteria - Skills, Commitment and Availability. Please contact Simon Read for more details.
There would be Liga for Men's 3&4 in the first half of the year. A shorter Liga for the Men 1s before their start of SHF League. And a Women's Liga for the Women's teams in the second half of the year. Please contact Simon Read for more details.
We would also enroll our teams into some of the local tournaments like SCC 6s, Balestair 5s, Masters, Indoor hockey, etc. These tournaments would not be just our 1st teams but some of these would also be open for other teams. Again, please contact Simon Read for more details.

To achieve our social goals, we plan the following:

We plan to have at least 5 Super Saturdays, where we meet and cheer not just our own teams but also other teams as well. we would try to do different social activities to cater for different tastes on these Super Saturdays. The details would be shared with you very soon.
We plan to have more Intra club hockey events, one every quarter. The first one being the Team Selection Day with a social event after the sport part of the day.
We plan to have one more Club Tour this year apart from the yearly tour to Vietnam, which is a great success every year. We are in the process of selecting the tour and would inform you as soon as have some preference.

We would like to keep you updated via our regular emails. And hope once again that with these actions, we would be able to reach our goals. Once again, if you have any comments or opinion, please do share with us. You can always contact me on my email address adit2537@googlemail.com

Thanks
Adi Tehan

So let's launch into the New hockey season and get to training before selections happen.

THIS WEEK

Monday 18th January - Mens Training 8-10pm EVANS RD

Tuesday 19th January - Ladies Training 8-10pm EVANS RD

NEXT WEEK

Monday 25th January - Mens Training 8-10pm DELTA

Tuesday 26th January - Ladies Training 8-10pm EVANS RD

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Have a great week!