Cheddar Valley Hockey Club News Articles http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk Cheddar Valley Hockey Club News Articles January 2020 Newsletter <p>Cheddar Valley Youth HC Committee and Coaches wish all our players, their families and all our supporters a very Happy New Year.</p> <p>Our first training session of the new year is Friday 10th January 2020.</p> <p>The club has had a busy first half of the season. Despite some wet Friday weather, our training sessions have been very well attended and all coaches are pleased with the improvement in skills and match-play of our players. One effect of the wet weather was the appearance of many earthworms on the astro – it was great to see our youngest players carefully moving these to safety and a group of parents rescuing the frog stuck tight in the fence as well as the pigeon stuck in the football goal! </p> <p>Our Hockey Heroes course, an introduction to hockey for very young players proved successful and we will be running a second set of sessions.</p> <p>Across the age groups we have taken part in a large number of fixtures, with all our teams showing great sportsmanship, skills and team-play with some brilliant results, lots of wins, draws and close losses. Some of the outstanding team performances include our Under 10 mixed team winning all their matches at the Somerset Clubs’ Tournament hosted by Cheddar Valley, our two Under 12 mixed teams each winning/drawing all but one of their matches at the Bruton tournament and our three Under 13/14 teams winning lots of matches at their home tournament. Our Under 8 and Under 9 teams have also been putting into practise all the hockey tactics they have developed at training, defending very well as a unitand scoring lots of goals at tournaments. One of theirmost notable appearances was the Bath Buccs tournament where they came away undefeated.</p> <p>In August 2019, Cheddar Valley Youth HC was awarded ClubMark status. This award from England Hockey and Sport England is an accreditation scheme validating clubs that show high standards of welfare, equity, coaching and management and are recognised as safe, rewarding and fulfilling places for players. This award reflects the time and effort(behind the scenes, at training and tournaments), our hardworking Committee, Coaches, parental and junior helpers put into making Cheddar Valley such asuccessful hockey club. </p> <p>Club kit is still available to be ordered at training sessions. We have a small stock of most sizes with samples available for trying on which we recommend particularly before purchasing a named hoodie.</p> <p>This season we have offered players the opportunity of attending several extra training sessions on selected Sundays when we do not have a club fixture. We are planning to continue this – details will be put on our facebook page, website and players will also be informed at training.</p> <p>Please note that in the event of severe weather, we will initially put details of training cancellation on our Cheddar Valley HC facebook page and club website.</p> <p>Please continue to visit our club website regularly for updates on club activity <a href="http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/">http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/</a></p> <p>Finally, a very big thank you to all our Cheddar Valley parents/carers for your much appreciatedsupport both at training and fixtures. The picturebelow taken on a cold damp November morning at the Bruton Under 12 tournament typifies the amazing support we have received at all fixtures/training this season.  </p> <p>We look forward to seeing you all soon.</p> <p><img alt="Supporter" src="https://clubbuzz-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/pro/photos/173216/responsive_sports.jpeg" style="height:320px; width:569px"></p> CVHC Webmaster Sun, 05 Jan 2020 19:19:59 +0000 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/january_2020_newsletter http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/january_2020_newsletter Fixture & Tournament Info <p>CVYHC aims to offer all players the opportunity of taking part in some tournaments/matches with other hockey clubs. For some fixtures, all players in the relevant age group are invited but for others there is some selection of players so that all players come away from competition feeling positive about their performance.</p> <p>For all future tournaments/matches, we will be sending out a group email – please reply promptly to let us know if you child can/cannot play. Thank you.</p> <p>Some of our fixtures are organised centrally by Somerset Hockey and usually involve a large number of clubs throughout the county.  For these tournaments, there is a deadline for team entries of two weeks before each fixture – because of this it is important that parents reply promptly concerning availability of players. If we do not have enough replies, we can only enter one team, unfortunately disappointing players who have replied too late. The standard of play at the Somerset tournaments is very high.</p> <p>We also organise and play tournaments and matches with a smaller group of clubs and these often involve several age groups playing on the same day. Again, with these fixtures we also require a prompt reply by the given date so that we know how many teams we are entering and we can inform the host club responsible for scheduling the event. If we are the host club, we have to send out a tournament match schedule to travelling teams before the event.</p> <p>Please check our cvyhc facebook page regularly for club updates including the dates of any extra training sessions. Many of our future fixtures are now on our club website <a href="mailto:cvyhc@outlook.com">cvyhc@outlook.com</a>. You can also contact us directly using this site if you have any queries.</p> <p>Our coaches and Kim, our membership secretary are always available at training for any queries you have.</p> <p>Please note that we will not be training during the Friday of half term (1st November) or Wells Carnival night (15th November).</p> CVHC Webmaster Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:29:02 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/fixture__tournament_info http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/fixture__tournament_info Welcome back to Cheddar Valley Training <p>New school year 6 and below - attend 17:00-18:00 session</p> <p>New school year 7 and above - attend 18:00-19:00 session</p> <p>We are planning to run a 19:00-20:00 session in subsequent weeks, which some of our older players will be asked to attend, </p> CVHC Webmaster Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:14:51 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/welcome_back_to_cheddar_valley_training http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/welcome_back_to_cheddar_valley_training March 2019 Newsletter <p>Please click the document below to read the newletter.</p> <p><a href="https://clubbuzz-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/pro/documents/23306/Newsletter_March_2019.pdf?1554332606">March 2019 Newsletter</a></p> CVHC Webmaster Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:06:43 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/march_2019_newsletter http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/march_2019_newsletter CVHC Players at Somerset Development Centre <p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; font-size:14.0pt'>Well done to all our players who were nominated and attended the training sessions at Millfield. Following on from this, congratulations to our 11 Cheddar Valley players who have been selected to trial for a place in the Somerset Under 14/15 Academies.</span></p> CVHC Webmaster Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:11:39 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/cvhc_player_success_at_somerset_development_centre http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/cvhc_player_success_at_somerset_development_centre England Hockey Under 12 Girls Somerset Finals <p>Well done to Cheddar Valley’s Under 12 Girls for playing some great hockey at the Somerset Finals. They narrowly missed a 2nd place finish (on goal difference) which would have seen them go through to represent Somerset in the West Finals.  </p> CVHC Webmaster Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:56:17 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/england_hockey_under_12_girls_somerset_finals http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/england_hockey_under_12_girls_somerset_finals Cheddar Valley success at Bath University tournaments <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">The standard of hockey was high at this fixture, and after some brilliant play, all 3 teams achieved second place for their age group and were well deserved recipients of silver medals.  </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">Cheddar Valley coaches and managers were really pleased with the excellent skills, team-play and sportsmanship shown by all players. A big thank you to our travelling parents and grandparents, we really appreciated your support.</span></span></p> CVHC Webmaster Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:06:17 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/cheddar_valley_success_at_ http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/cheddar_valley_success_at_ Membership for 2018-19 <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">Most of our players will have received an email containing training details and a membership form to download. Remember to bring the completed membership form to the first training session. The club membership fee must also be included unless it has already been paid by BACS. Thank you.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">(Players who have not received the training details email can pick up a membership form at training.)</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">Remember that we cannot allow players onto the pitch at training/ be considered for fixtures, if the club membership is not paid by 16th September 2018. </span></span></p> <p> </p> CVHC Webmaster Sun, 26 Aug 2018 03:30:29 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/membership_for_201819 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/membership_for_201819 2018-19 Season <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">The astro at The Blue School, Wells </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">The astro at Kings Leisure &amp; Fitness, Cheddar </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">(There will be some rotation of coaches between the venues.)</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">School Years 6 and below will train from 5.00pm-6.00pm</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">School Years 7 and above will train from 6.00pm-7.00pm</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">(Some Year 7 players may be asked to train at the earlier 5.00pm session)</span></span></p> <p><span style="color:#000000"><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; font-size:14pt'>New Players</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> – You are most welcome to turn up at one of our training sessions to try out our club. If you would like more information please email the club using the 'Contact Us' page or via                  </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:Calibri">Alternatively you can phone Ros Tyson 01934 743510.</span></span></p> CVHC Webmaster Sun, 26 Aug 2018 02:42:36 +0100 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/201819_season http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/201819_season AGM 2017/18 <p>If you are interested in joining our committee or helping out next season please speak to one of our coaches or contact the club via our website. </p> <p>Nominations to be sent via our website by Sunday 08/04/2018.</p> <p>The AGM will be held at The White Hart, Cheddar starting at 19:30.</p> CVHC Webmaster Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:12:55 +0000 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/agm_2017_18 http://cvyhc.clubbuzz.co.uk/news/agm_2017_18