GDHC Junior Report 2013 - Glebe District Hockey Club

Glebe Junior Report 2013season.Scout Hathaway-Wilson - Scout played an important role in our defence this season, at bothfullback and centre-half. She is a player who is able to put in practice the skills she learnt attraining and demonstrated this with a very good drag in both directions. Each week, Scout wouldgo out onto the field and make tackles until the final whistle blew. Her positive approach,willingness to learn and a solid foundation of skills will allow her to develop into a great defender.Jasper King - Jasper showed great defensive skills this year while playing fullback. He showedstrong tackles, improved hitting and the ability to work under pressure. Jasper also played a fewgames in goals and these were to an exceptional standard. If Jasper is to continue working on hisindividual and team skills, he will go far in hockey.Amy Lane - For a player who was in her first season of hockey, Amy has shown a lot of potentialon the field. Amy played a lot of hockey in the inside forwards but demonstrated her talents weretackling and intercepting when she played in defence. Amy was a pleasure to coach and I hope shecontinues to play and enjoy the game in the future.Madeline Lane - Maddie was our self promoted captain and centre forward. At centre-forward,she went out each week with aspirations of scoring that elusive goal and gave a 110% effort in theprocess. If Maddie continues to work on her trapping and shooting, I have no doubt she can scoremany goals if she is slightly more selfish when inside the circle. Maddie brought a good sense ofhumour to all the team talks and was highly valued.Nicholas Moraitakis - Nic provided a strong performance all year at centre-half and fullback,distributing the ball up the field. He was our top goal scorer and achieved this feat with manycounter attacking raids. If Nic wishes to continue to be a force on a hockey field he mustremember to keep both hands on the stick in both attack and defence. Congratulations on a goodseason.Cleo Newling - Cleo was the quiet achiever of the team. She was always willing to play in anyposition, enthusiastically, to the benefit of the team. Cleo was prepared to work on her skills weekin week out and as a result improved throughout the season.Claudia Otto - Claudia was another one of our players who was willing to play a range of positionsbut really found her home playing in goals. Anyone who saw Claudia play in goals, especially in thegames against the other Glebe team, would say she was a key figure. Claudia was a good goaliebut also played a number of positions well, as she always works hard and plays to the end.Kiera Workman - Keira was another player who was injured during the season, to the detriment ofthe team. Keira was one of the team’s workhorses, who put in effort no matter what the scorewas. Playing mainly in defence, Keira worked hard both on match day and during training and thisshowed with strong improvements in her tackling, trapping and passing.India Allen - Ind is an enthusiastic player who joined the team about halfway through the season.Initially a bit hesitant while on the ball, she became a very useful player both in attack and defencein the last few games of the season. Unfortunately (for the Strikers), Ind’s best game of the seasonwas when she volunteered to play for Hornets in the Glebe vs Glebe clash which resulted in a 1-0loss to the Strikers due to some great defence from Indy.Dom Tintner (Coach)Glebe District Hockey Club 83nd Year Page 15