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FHC Seeks National Jr. Men's Team Coach
FHC Looking For Part Time Men’s Jr. National Team Coach
November 16, 2010
Field Hockey Canada is currently looking for a Part Time Field Hockey Coach for the Men’s Junior National Team. The position is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the working period would be from January 1st, 2011 to March 31st, 2011. The deadline for the application is Novmeber 26th, 2010 at the end of the business day. For more information about the FHC Coaching job, please click on the link below…
Men's Jr. Team Shuts Out USA In Final Match
Canadian Men’s Jr. Team Wins Final Match 5 – 0
November 16, 2010
Canada – 5 USA – 0
The Canadian team pressed into the USA zone giving the USA athletes less time to make decisions. This caused some problems for the USA defence and paid high dividens for the Canada with three quick goals. Two field goals; James Kirkpatrick – # 16 at the 3 minute mark and Josh Brown – # 3 at the 11 minute mark followed by a hard hit into the corner off a penalty corner by Sam Jones – # 13 at the 16 minute mark…
Men's Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 6
Men’s Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 6
November 15, 2010
After a heaven-like sleep-in, of an extra thirty minutes (waking at 8:15), the team took off for their routine pre-game run and stretches; lead by the illustrious captain, Taylor Curran. He took the team down a familiar route, passed the Mexican restaurant and Carl’s Jr. joint, to a parking lot next to a run-down Catholic church. There they ran a few laps of, what seemed like, the five-mile track that early in the morning. However, regardless of the early morning (or seemed to be an early morning), the team was not gun-shy of playful banter back and forth…
Men's Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 5
Men’s Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 5
November 15, 2010
We woke up at 7:45 for our first pre-game morning jog.
Preparing for our first match against the USA was totally necessary as none of us wanted to start off the series with a loss. We had our Holiday Inn’s signature breakfast, complete with bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, and the key to our success, those perfect cinnamon rolls. Continuing with our pre-game preparation, Coach Aaron presented our game plan complete with chalk board diagrams and video clips – which I found very informative…
Canadian Men's Jr. Team Ties USA
Men’s Jr. Team Draw’s USA In Game 2
November 14, 2010
Canada – 2 USA – 2
The Canadian athletes were unsettled with the intensity the USA team brought to the second match. Canada continued on with the quick rotation up front due to the match start time (1:30 pm) and the hot dry weather conditions. Canada’s defence was lead by the goalie Kevin Pereira who was virtually untested in the 1st match and stopped every attempt made by the USA in the first half…
Men's Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 4
Men’s Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 4
November 14, 2010
Thursday began with a 7:00 am breakfast consisting of the now perfunctory bacon, toast, yogurt, waffles and muffins and of whose quality we seem to have varying opinions.
At 7:30 am we headed to the field in our convoy of vans, and as usual Big Alv was far ahead of the others on the way.
We worked on our half-court press and our five-man defence, and we were pleased with our performance. Once again at the end of the practice our adept manager was noted yelling, "C’mon boys, three more balls," in his colossal voice…
Men's Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 3
Men’s Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 3
November 14, 2010
The coaches had decided the previous night to relax today’s training schedule from two practices to one, as you can imagine the team was extremely supportive of this decision. After a much appreciated sleep-in the team went down to breakfast well rested and pumped at the prospect of the lighter schedule ahead of them. As if that wasn’t enough, they were delightfully surprised by the presence of sausages at the breakfast buffet…
Men's Jr. Team Victorious At USA Test Series
Men’s Jr. Team Win’s In First Match At USA Test Series
November 13, 2010
Canada – 2 USA – 0
The Canadian athletes settled right into the game plan with confidences and a high work rate. Canada introduced quick continuous rotation up front due to the 1:30 pm start and hot dry condition. This paid dividends with a field goal at the 9 th minute by # 3 – Josh Brown. Most of the first half the USA sustained ball possession outside the Canadian half court zone earning 3 penalty corners…
Men's Jr. Team USA Test Series Blog: 2
Men’s Jr. Team USA Test Series – 2
November 13, 2010
The day started off bright and early with breakfast at 7am and then practice at 8. After reflecting on our first breakfast, several of us agreed that the 5 hours of sleep was probably the only reason the omelets tasted all right, they could have been much better that’s for sure. Everyone was pretty tired from travelling the day before and it didn’t help that we got to the hotel at 1am. Practice was interesting to say the least, because as you can imagine, we were all very tired and it made for a very tough practice…