Juniors

St Albans Saints is the junior Underwater Hockey club for children 8+.

Run by Underwater Hockey playing members of St. Albans Sub Aqua Club (SASAC) with excellent coaching support from St. Albans Underwater Hockey Club.

Chair and main organiser - Ali Humphrey

Ali was a member of the GBUWH Masters Women at the Worlds in Canada in 2002, Squad Manager at the Worlds in New Zealand 2004 and in the UK in 2006. She is also an ASA Swimming Teacher and British Sub Aqua Club Snorkel Instructor.

Membership

Membership is open to juniors 10yrs+, on completion of a 5week introduction course. For further details contact [email protected]. There is a waiting list and courses are offered each school term.All kit can be provided for the introduction course. There is a course fee of £30. Players must join the both the British Octopush Association (BOA) and SASAC for which there is an annual fee.

When & Where

Thursday 7-8pm Westminster Lodge Pool, term time only Wednesday 9-10pm Westminster Lodge Pool, term time only and for those 15yrs+. Additional fitness training sessions are organised in the summer at the SASAC pool.

Competitions

We enter teams into Junior Regional and National tournaments often joining with other teams in the South East. We were very proud to have 20 of our junior members representing SE Teams in the Junior Nationals this year.

We were especially pleased that one of the Under 16 teams included 6 of our members who are students at Heathlands School for the Deaf. We are working very closely with Heathlands School to increase participation in our sport for young people who are deaf.

There are currently 6 of our junior members training hard with the GB Under 19’s and hoping for selection for a place in the squads going forward.

3 of our junior players represented GB in France last year.

Going forward we are organising more friendly games with local clubs to give our younger players more competition experience.