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Proctor Family – Maryborough
Anne Proctor and her daughter Jane-Ellen Negus recently attended the Women’s Masters Indoor Championships in Maryborough. Anne’s school friends were playing hockey and it looked like fun, so Anne decided to join them at the age of 12. It has been 58 years since her first involvement with the sport.Hockey became a family sport. Anne…
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A Kookaburra in a Gum Tree
Article by R A Hunter
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Labrador Tigerstix Div 3 Gold
Labrador Tigerstix Division 3 Gold team playing in the Gold Coast Hockey Association local open competition boasts one of the oldest teams in the competition and they wonder if they are the oldest team in Qld playing in an open age (non-Masters) comp? The self-titled, “Solid Gold” team has an average age of 52.6 years…
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Gold Coast Women’s Masters Hockey Spring Parade
Men’s hockey Club formed in 1959 (the year the city was named Gold Coast) while the Women’s hockey club formed in 1960. The Club would enter a float in the Annual Spring Parade to promote the sport of hockey. Parade would cross the old Jubilee Bridge from Surfers to Southport. Annually a Miss Hockey would…
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When Bullying was in Vogue and Skill at it Applauded
Article by R A Hunter
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Non-Uniformity of the Uniform
Article by R A Hunter
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The Hockey Stick – From Trees to Industrial Chemistry
Article by R A Hunter
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Hands Up for Hockey
Have you noticed that use of the hands have all but disappeared from hockey? The rules for field players now only allow use of hands to hold the stick. Unofficially, of course, a hand pointed skywards is an appeal to the umpire for a free hit or an indication to the bench that you have…
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Kedron Wavell Family Team
Kedron Wavell Hockey Club DP3 team this year was a very special team consisting of 4 Mother daughter combinations, an aunty and a grandmother as the Manager. They also had 2 very talented juniors in Keeley and Meg and sadly their mate Natalie Andrea didn’t finish the season with the DP3 team, but next year…