Trent Valley Hockey Club was created during the time of the Covid-19 lockdown as a vision of David Monkhouse and Carl Bruiners.
Both founders wanted to be able to offer an alternative offering to support the development of hockey players within the East Midlands; a focus on player enjoyment, all-inclusive community and as a development centric club.
Finding the right location was the next step and after investigating a number of sites, we found Trent College in Long Eaton to be a fantastic location to build a strong hockey community.
In addition to providing a enjoyable and safe environment, Trent Valley Hockey Club also promotes the development of budding coaches and umpires. The coaches encourage players to take an active role in coaching and umpiring, so not only are we developing future players but the supporting roles.
We don’t measure our successes through match wins, we measure our victory’s in the amount of smiles our players have when leaving the pitch.
David Monkhouse has a been a player, manager and coach in the East Midlands over a number of years.
David has been a driving and inspirational force behind getting Trent Valley Hockey Club up and running.
David along with Carl has a real passion for delivering the right environments for youth players to thrive and to enjoy the game. David identified early on that a lot of players leave the game due to negative experiences and a fundamental of Trent Valley Hockey Club is to help keep more young players playing hockey well beyond their youth years and to continue to enjoy the game well into their senior years.
Carl has been involved in a number of sports over the years as a sports owner, manager and coach; namely football and Futsal, but his passion was always in his favourite sport he played from the age of 13 until seniors, which is Hockey.
Carl played for a couple of clubs in London and the South East, and has coached in the midlands.
Across all forms of sport Carl has always supported the importance sport plays for youth players, but also acknowledges that sport can also become a negative for young players if the environment is not all inclusive nor positive, a significant reason why Carl and David’s shared vision of an all inclusive, friendly, positive and safe environment made Trent Valley Hockey club something Carl was very keen to see delivered.
David Monkhouse has a been a player, manager and coach in the East Midlands over a number of years.
David has taken on the role of welfare officer until a permanent appointment is made in the near future.
During these challenging times, and to get hockey back to playing there are a number of guidelines that Trent Valley Hockey Club needs to satisfy to return to both training and matches.
Below are a number of documents for your information, please note all players will have to complete a pre-training / match Covid assessment before being allowed to return, apologies for the inconvenience but I’m sure you understand why.
England Hockey Infographic Step 4
8 – 10 yr olds
11 – 12 yr olds
13 – 14 yr olds
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