Selection Process and Criteria
Tauranga Women's Indoor Hockey Team
Team selection will be made after the 13 October Muster, or additional muster if required.
All representatives will actively exhibit the Tauranga Hockey values – Respect, Integrity, Inclusion.
Indoor Hockey is a fast paced, high intensity, skillful, whole-team game. Tauranga Hockey is excited to support a women’s team in 2024 to National Open Tournament, the first representative indoor team in recent times.
The Tauranga Hockey Indoor programme has an emphasis on the collaborative development of all participants (players, coaches, officials). The 2024 indoor campaign will focus on consolidating basic skills, developing sound indoor hockey rules awareness, and acquiring foundational tactical concepts, in a positive, thriving, participant-centered environment. Participants will need to understand all on-court positions.
A key contributing factor to the success of this campaign will be the positive connection of the group, so individual participant character and values plays an important part in the make-up of the team as a whole.
Players for this campaign must be age 18 and over*
The selected squad will contain the best group of players for the team.
Selectors are not limited to, but should consider the following factors in their assessment:
Attitude:
- Engagement with team and officials, reaction to errors (self & others), body language
Team/Squad Orientation:
- Interaction with team, connection on & off the court, personal responsibility, honesty, openness, respect
Communication:
- Providing/receiving direction to/from teammates, listening, responding to communication, body language
Potential to Improve:
- Willingness to learn, peer support, self-correction throughout a game/tournament
Competitive Ability:
- Engagement in contests, reactions to turnovers, response to pressure situations
Physical Capabilities:
Tactical Nous:
- Positional play, reading the game, decision making, understanding of team structures
Technical Competencies:
- Core basic skills, passing connections, set piece skills, elimination skills, defensive skills
Additional considerations:
- Tournament spaces may be offered to those who have not had a tournament opportunity in 2024.
- *Spaces may be held for guest player/s or players with Indoor Hockey knowledge/experience - this is with the view to broaden the uptake of indoor specific skill acquisition and enhance the ability for practical tactical implementation.
- *Special dispensation may be granted on a case by case basis
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