Showing hockey’s new commitment to regions

Pathways program honour commitment to be more accessible to South Australia’s regional players

HockeySA was in Mount Gambier last weekend and will return again this weekend as part of the State body’s new and improved pathways program for State side selection. The two weekend’s of camps are being headed up by HockeySA head of high performance Roel van Maastrigt, with Mount Gambier based elite pathway coach Graeme Millhouse (pictured above left at the weekend camp) also lending his expertise as players like Mount Gambier based State hopefuls Mercedes Theobald and Chloe Boylan(above right) enjoy the benefit of specialised trainng right on thier doorstep. Roel van Maastrigt sat down with Lifestyle1 and his thoughts on hockey in this region and making elite patheays more accessible to regional talent will appear in next week’s Lifestyle1.