Comments | psycho_tabby: Willowbridge Hockey Gandfinal! :)

psycho_tabby

Willowbridge Hockey Gandfinal! :)

Sep 18, 2010 22:37

I was in two minds about playing hockey this year as I was just getting way too many injures. I had screwed my knees, been hit in the face twice, had damaged most of my front teeth and it was just getting way to expensive/dangerous. Butttttt, I was an idiot in February and decided to go to the pre-season running just to get fit (not to play, oh no ( Read more... )

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danov September 18 2010, 14:42:15 UTC

WHOOOO!

Congrats! That's awesome and i'm sure you played like a pro!

How many more days till Africa?? Are you freaking out with excitment yet?

psycho_tabby September 19 2010, 15:39:45 UTC

3 days to go. Equally excited/freaked about the amount of stuff I have to do before I go!

kremmen September 18 2010, 16:03:23 UTC

Great!! ... And without injuries such as balls in the face is even better!

psycho_tabby September 19 2010, 15:42:43 UTC

Aie! three cheers for that :)

(though I can't say the season was injury free for everyone, In our second last game a poor girl on my team got a ball to the temple and had to be stretchered off and go to the hospital (but thankfully was ok).

bardiegrub September 18 2010, 22:33:09 UTC

Congratulations! Glad the teeth are still intact.

zebra363 September 19 2010, 00:08:52 UTC

Congratulations!

baby_elvis September 19 2010, 01:16:30 UTC

Big congratulations!

I had no idea the game was so professional here.

psycho_tabby September 19 2010, 15:54:54 UTC

The league I play in isn't really that professional. Its the league below the top level, which is where all the state players, Olympic hockey players etc play when they are at home. I think my club is just going about it a bit more seriously as they have put a massive amount of effort into the junior teams over the last few years (I think Melville has the most amount of junior teams of any club) and our now starting to see the rewards of all that focus.

Some of the under 13's, 15's and 17's we have are state players in their age group, and there is the potential that they could go on to be professional hockey players, but currently they can't do that with Melville as we don't have a top league team.

In terms of hockey, I'm fairly sure the Perth Hockey Stadium used as the main training base for the Australian teams, so the sport is well supported here.