Cost £140, candidates must be 16 years of age by the start of the course to attend. Club members wishing to gain the support of the club to do the course must contact Jamie Oxley for more information. Deadline for applications is the 10th of September 2010.

The club would like to congratulate Giselle Ansley on her fine achievement after she represented England U18s at the home nations tournament in July. So how did she get to play for England? .... Giselle attended an England training camp in November 2009 after representing Wessex Leopards which is the next level on from the JRPCs. After not being selected for the first squad Giselle returned back to the club determined to get selected later in the season.

She received a call up to the May training camps at Lilleshall followed by selection for a training match v Wales U.21 side, at Moulton College Northampton winning 2-1.  Next up was the Germany camp with a strict programme of training, diet, rest etc and three matches v a speedy, skilful and fairly volatile German side. After a 1-0 lead for most of the first game England lost 2-1 but this was rectified the following evening with a 2-1 win!

Friday 16th saw the squad of 18 fly to Cork for the Home Nations championships.  They beat Wales 2-1 all goals from PC routines. Saturday saw 2-1 defeat of Scotland  with goals from  Penalty corner and reverse shot but we fell foul of the Irish on Sunday after an excellent start,( against the opposition  umpires and the crowd!) conceding a goal in latter stages of game to lose the game and title to Ireland. Now a return to the cricket field before pre-season hockey at Loughborough starts on August 14^th and five of the squad meet up again!

Cost £140, candidates must be 16 years of age by the start of the course to attend. Club members wishing to gain the support of the club to do the course must contact Jamie Oxley for more information. Deadline for applications is the 10th of September 2010.

The club would like to congratulate Giselle Ansley on her fine achievement after she represented England U18s at the home nations tournament in July. So how did she get to play for England? .... Giselle attended an England training camp in November 2009 after representing Wessex Leopards which is the next level on from the JRPCs. After not being selected for the first squad Giselle returned back to the club determined to get selected later in the season.

She received a call up to the May training camps at Lilleshall followed by selection for a training match v Wales U.21 side, at Moulton College Northampton winning 2-1.  Next up was the Germany camp with a strict programme of training, diet, rest etc and three matches v a speedy, skilful and fairly volatile German side. After a 1-0 lead for most of the first game England lost 2-1 but this was rectified the following evening with a 2-1 win!

Friday 16th saw the squad of 18 fly to Cork for the Home Nations championships.  They beat Wales 2-1 all goals from PC routines. Saturday saw 2-1 defeat of Scotland  with goals from  Penalty corner and reverse shot but we fell foul of the Irish on Sunday after an excellent start,( against the opposition  umpires and the crowd!) conceding a goal in latter stages of game to lose the game and title to Ireland. Now a return to the cricket field before pre-season hockey at Loughborough starts on August 14^th and five of the squad meet up again!