Truro School

Girls' Hockey

Hockey is one of the main girls' sports played at Truro School from September through to Easter. The school is highly successful within the County and the sport has flourished since the building of the astroturf in 2005. Many school teams are successful in the County tournaments and continue on to represent Cornwall in the Regional finals. Our fixture list is extensive playing many local schools including Mount House, Kelly College, Plymouth College and Truro College.

In recent years there have been hockey tours to Sussex and South Africa where the girls have experienced a great standard of hockey whilst also experiencing the cultural life of a foreign country.

The school enters many competitions including the Under 14, 16 and 18 National competitions and County tournaments in both indoor and outdoor hockey. Truro School are also represented at Local Junior leagues including the U12 and U13 teams at the Penair League and the U15's at the Penzance league. Occasionally the school will field mixed teams to play against some other local schools, and during the summer term enter the St Austell Mixed Summer League where they have been champions on a number of occasions.

Three coaches are currently working with the hockey teams this term; Miss Joanne Bales, Miss Viv Cobner and Miss Lizzie Hancock.

Truro School have a large number of pupils who take their Hockey Foundation Umpires awards each year, we actively encourage our pupils to become involved in both coaching and umpiring. Many of our players are involved in the local development programmes where they receive additional coaching and some go on to play for the County under 18's.

South Africa Hockey & Netball Tour 2009

We had a fabulous tour, the weather was kind and the girls were brilliant. The standard of the hockey was very high and unfortunately a little too strong for our squad nonetheless the girls worked hard and never gave up. The netball squad played really well and the combination of the fifth years with our lower sixth created a super team (it is a shame that some are now leaving us!)

Results:

vs Westerford High School
Netball won 20-15	Hockey lost 0-5

vs St Cyprian's
Netball won 37-11	Hockey drew 1-1

vs Durban Girls College
Netball won 33-21	Hockey lost 0-5

vs St Anne's
Netball won 29-12	Hockey lost 0-15

vs Uplands
Netball won 26-14	Hockey lost 0-4

vs Penryn College
Netball won 21-16	Hockey lost 0-2

Netball Players Player - Milly Trevail

Hockey Players Player - Kitty Byrne

2009-10 Achievements (to date)

The following pupils were selected into the JDC (Junior Development Centre):

Jess Pascoe, Flora Jobson, Rianna Snow, Francesca Waters and Alysia Draper.

Christina Homer
Junior Regional Performance Centre

U12 County Mini Hockey Festival Runners Up

The following pupils were selected to represent Cornwall U13 hockey

Jess Pascoe and Christina Homer

Under 13 County Mini Champions – to represent Cornwall at Regionals

U15 County Hockey Selection

Congratulations to Niamh Dunne, Olivia Connell, Kiani Pay and Stacey Pascoe who have been selected to represent Cornwall this weekend at a tournament in Bristol.

U15 County Hockey Cup Runners Up

Under 16 County Champions – represented Cornwall at Regionals

The following pupils have been selected for Cornwall Under 17 Hockey

Pip Badger, India Cockroft, Eva Marquis and Alice Main have all been selected

Another hockey player selected for Regional Training

Congratulations to Alice Main in the fifth year who whilst representing the County under 17 Hockey team has gained selection into the Junior Regional Performance Centre.

Under 18 County Champions – represented Cornwall at Regionals

2008-9 Achievements

Under 12 County Champions

Under 15 County Plate Winners

Under 16 County Indoor Runners Up

Under 18 County Runners Up

Under 13’s won Truro Mini League

Under 14’s won Penzance Mini League

County Academies –

U13 -Christina Homer, Flora Jobson

U14 – Niamh Dunne, Flora Cecil, Pip Badger, Lola Randles, Kiani Pay

U15 – Alice Maidwell Smith