Hampshire Academy Centre

Welcome to the Hampshire AC (Academy Centre) pages of the Hampshire Hockey Association. The HAC is the second step on the Hampshire Player Development Pathway and is open to players who have been nominated from the Hampshire Development Centre (HDC) and those who have completed the Hampshire Performance Centre (HPC)

Nominated HDC players and returning HPC players are invited to the HAC Assessments. This is done over a period of 2 sessions and all players are assessed as part of the whole group on the pitch. Past performance and historic participation are not taken into consideration.

At the assessments, we always have multiple coaches looking at the players (specially in the younger age groups which tend to be larger) and the lead coach will take the input from all these coaches to select the final squad of 20-25 field players. Goalkeepers are selected by our specialist GK coaching team.

During the assessments we will make certain allowances for injured players and these may be invited to later training sessions to be assessed.

Please note: there is NO direct path to the Hampshire AC (county) squad. Everyone has to attend the assessments regardless of their past involvement in Hampshire.

In Hampshire we are happy to consider players who also want to do the TA as long as the clashes with our match dates as planned by England Hockey on their centralised calendar are not too severe.