Author: QWMH Webmaster

After sixty years involvement across three generations, Judy Aitkenhead has retired from playing, but her love of hockey will keep her involved in the game she loves. The Gladstone icon first took the chance to play hockey in the No. 1 Team at Kelvin Grove Teachers Training College in 1957, going against her father’s warning…

Vicki Warren has been awarded for her Lifetime Contribution to Volunteering. Vicki became involved in hockey when she was looking to play sport after living in a rural area where there weren’t the opportunities to play. Vicki was a foundation member of Army Escorts Hockey Club (1969) where she played for four years. The opportunity…

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…

Article by R A Hunter

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…

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…

Article by R A Hunter

Article by R A Hunter

Article by R A Hunter