East Youth Competitions Committee

Minutes of the Committee meeting held on May 1^st 2008.

Present: L. Bant. Chair, F. Wheeler Secretary, H.Gilbert Beds (b), P.Yetzes Cambs, G.Welch Herts (b), K. Edwards Norfolk (g), David Hill Norfolk (b).

Also present: Bill Felton East President.

Apologies were received from: J. Wood Herts (g), C. Farrow Suffolk(b & g),

D. Menear Essex (g) S.Tippen Cambs and Lincs (b & g)

1.The Minutes were agreed by those who had been present at the previous

meeting and signed.

2. Matters arising. None

3. Correspondence . This was dealt with elsewhere in the mini report.

4. Reports:

East. The Chair reported on the East management meeting. We need to

work out over the coming season what would be the role of the Competitions

Committee after the introduction of the Single System. Concerns were

expressed over the financing of the Single System and the amount that the

players would be expected to contribute.

East Camps. These were to be used for the selection of U15 and U17squads

this year. There would be Tier 1 competitions and Tier 2 Competitions (the

former Regional competitions).

Umpires. There was no report.

Yazoo Minis. C. Farrow will be sending a summary to all the Committee

Members. Bill Felton commented on the running of the event and everybody

had seemed to enjoy themselves. He also commented on the high standard of

hockey that was played especially the u13 boys between Felsted Prep and

Ipswich School which had provided an exciting end to the competition.

Thanks had been received form several schools commenting on how their

players had enjoyed themselves. H. Hancock from Felsted Prep had

suggested that it might be better if we were at the same venue next year that

we played one U11 and one U13 competition together so that the u13s could

stay on the water-based pitch all day instead of changing over the lunch break.

The National finals are on a water-based pitch for the U13s. Further

consultation on next season’s competition will take place later.

5. The Indoor dates were fixed. The competitions would be fore the clubs and

schools They are as follows:

November 16^th Boys U16

December 6^th Girls U16

December 7^th Boys and Girls U18

6. All counties updated the Committee on their progress towards the single

system.

7. The Chair thanked all members for their work throughout the year with a

special mention of the Secretary.

Girls’ Representatives meeting

Competitions report. The Competitions secretary gave a written report of the latest competitions commenting on the successful Yazoo minis. She also thanked the many volunteers for their help throughout the year as without them the competitions would not run.

Next season’s programme was finalised with some changes as a result of the England changes.

Cambs detailed their results and had appointed their JDC coaches.

Essex reported on their first JDCs which took place on April 27^th. They had had entries from new schools.

Kent reported that their JDCs would take place at 5/6 venues.

Norfolk’s plans for the JDCs were on course.

Suffolk .C.Farrow is still chasing invoices for 2 girls’ fixtures.

There will be a Single System update meeting on May 14^th . Recruitment for coaches was to go ahead.

Boys representatives.

The new representative from Beds , Heather Gilbert was welcomed.

Next season’s programme. There were some changes as a result of the England changes. The U16 Indoor was brought forward. Following the strong recommendation of England that England players should not play in the county competitions ,some of these are now on England dates. The schools, too has changed.

Reports

The Competitions report was given out. (See above).

Written Reports were handed

Essex, Cambs and Suffolk) (See above)

Herts. The report detailed their results in the recent competitions and the dates of the JDCs which would be running as 2 day camps at Broxbourne, Bishop’s Stortford and the University of Herts.

The meeting closed at 8.55pm

The next Meeting is on September 18^th. Venue to be decided.