Two national sports teams on a trailblazing mission to get their sport on the map have held a weekend training camp in Hastings.
The men’s and women’s national indoor hockey teams were named recently and are preparing for New Zealand’s first time at the Indoor Hockey World Cup, the 2023 tournament being held in South African capital Pretoria on February 5-11.
Training and practice games were held on Saturday and Sunday at the Hastings Sports Centre, interspersed with junior sessions for local Hawke’s Bay players or others interested in the sport, said Hawke’s Bay resident and team manager Mike Mayor, who is leading efforts to get indoor hockey better established in New Zealand.
Hawke’s Bay has two players in the women’s squad in Grace Gibson and Georgia Mayo, both of whom played for Hawke’s Bay in the field hockey national tournament in Dunedin last year.
