Calendar year to School year
Dear Parent or Guardian,
AGE GROUPS - U12 - U17 REDEFINED.
Some of you and/or our players may have noticed, or could shortly receive an un-expected e-mail note, that their assigned age group for the coming season has been changed.
If this is the case, please do not worry, any registration and payment you may have made for the coming season is still valid. There is no need for you to change anything, we will handle it.
Chloe is, today, running through our 400+ player registrations and making changes, where necessary, to ensure that all have the correctly assigned year group.
Behind these changes is the confusion unfortunately caused by England Hockey (EH) committing to and undertaking some revisions in the operation of our Player Pathway to fit their newly created ‘Talent Development Strategy’. Specifically, this is the re-defining of the age brackets of our young players by changing the base year from the (Jan to Dec) Calendar year to the (Sep to Aug) School year.
The effect of this time-shift is straightforward. Those players whose dates of birth fall between Sept 1st and Dec 31st will remain in the same year group that they were in last season (2020/21).
We would be grateful if you could please re-assure any youngster who is affected by this change that it is not a demotion - in fact it gives them the great one-off advantage of being a season’s training ahead of their new contemporaries.
I apologise for any inconvenience this confusion may have caused you, all is now in hand.
We all wish you a restful summer break,
Best regards,
John Hendy
Chair - SHS&YA
New year groups for season 2021/2022
U13 - 1 Sept 08 - 31 Aug 09
U14 - 1 Sept 07 - 31 Aug 08
U15 - 1 Sept 06 - 31 Aug 07
U16 - 1 Sept 05 - 31 Aug 06
U17 - 1 Sept 04 - 31 Aug 05
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