Sessions

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Performance Centes 2018-19

Venues

There will be 8 Performance Centres which will be accessible from the home address for players in the South. Those at boarding school may request any centre nationally.

We are currently negotiating with the pitch providers. The venues for 2018-19 will be the same as, or as far as possible in the same vicinity as, the 2017-18 venues. The 2017-18 venues are listed below:

Caterham	Caterham School	Harestone Valley Road, Caterham CR3 6YB
Guildford	Charterhouse School	Charterhouse Road, Godalming, GU7 2DX
Northwood	Merchant Taylors' School	Moor Park, Northwood, HA6 2HT	operated by the East
Reading	Reading HC	Sonning Lane, Sonning, RG4 6ST
South Midlands	Warwick School	Myrton Road, Warwick, CV34 6PP	operated by the Midlands
Southampton	Wellington Sports Groud (KES)	Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh SO50 9HT
Tonbridge	Tonbridge School	London Road, Tonbridge, TN10 3AD
Weybridge	St George's College	Weybridge Road, Addlestone, KT15 2QS	Evenings: No admittance on-site before 18:30

2018-19 Dates

Monday Evenings	Boys	08 Oct	29 Oct	19 Nov	03 Dec
		21 Jan	04 Feb	25 Feb	18 Mar
	Girls	01 Oct	15 Oct	05 Nov	26 Nov
		28 Jan	18 Feb	11 Mar	25 Mar
All Day Training	All	23 Sep	27 Apr	25 May	16 Jun	06 Jul
Match Practice	All	06 Jan	03 Mar
Cluster Competition	All	14 Apr	30 Jun	07 Jul
U15 Selection Day	U14**	09 Jun
U17 Selection Day	AC *	16 Jun	23 Jun

* these sessions are for nominees from AC only

** for all exosting PC players and nominees from AC eligible for the U15 in 2019-20 (ie those born 2005 and 2006)

A full schedule including venues and times can be downloaded by clicking the link.

The match practice session involves two centres, half of which will be at the opponents venue.

Futures' Cup is at St Albans from Wednesday 21 to Saturday 24 August (Bank Holiday weekend), the prep day is Sunday 18 August at a centre relevant to your cluster.

Session Times

Monday Evenings

Other than those listed below, all Monday sessions at base location. Session times are:

	Reading	19:15-21:15
	Southampton	18:30-20:30
	Others	19:00-21:00

Weekend Training

Other than those listed below, these sessions will be at the base location.

	10:00-16:00	12:00-18:00
23 September	boys	girls
06 Jan	U15	U17
03 Mar	U17	U15
27/28 April	tba	tba
25 May	girls	boys
15 June	girls	boys
06 July	boys	girls

During the season the coaches may elect to switch some of these to be match practice sessions. In which case half the players will be at at alternative centre.

Venue changes

All training sessions are at the standard centre venue unless listed below:

	Date		Centre	New Venue
	none as yet

Match Practice

The session on 06 January and 03 March will involve two neighbouring centres joing up and having a training session in the morning then a match practice session in the afternoon. Depending on the wishes of the coaches, some of the other all-day sessions may be switched from training to match practice during the course of the season.

Cluster

Leopards (Guildford and Southampton)

	Boys	Girls	First Match
14 April
30 Jume
07 July

Download full schedule here

Lynx (Reading and Weybridge)

	Boys	Girls	First Match
14 April
30 June
07 July

Tigers (Caterham and Tonbridge)

	Boys	Girls	First Match
14 April
30 June
07 July

Academy+

the Academy+ sessions are designed for thosefrom offshore islands and other areas with significant travelling issues to the Monday sessions. For those at the South Centres this affects those living on the Channel Islands. Jersey and Guernsey will be arranging separate sessions for their players. This will usually be one or two weekends during the year. The sessions are:

not yet decided

Due to the balance of sessions, it is expected that those at boarding school will attend the centre most appropriate to school and guest at a centre closer to home during the holidays. This must be arranged in advance. The centres not listed above are at:

Bristol	Clifton College	Abbots' Leigh, Bristol BS8 3QD
Bury	Culford School	Culford, Bury St Edmunds IP28 6TX
Durham	Durham University	Willow Tree Avenue, Durham DH1 3SE
East Midlands	(days) Loughborough University
	(eves) Repton School	Willington Lane, Repton, Derby DE65 6FH
Fylde	Mill Farm Village	Fleetwood Road, Wesham PR4 3JZ
Manchester	Manchester Armitage Sports Centre	Moseley Road, Manchester M14 6HE
Taunton	King's School	South Road, Taunton TA1 3LA
West Midlands	Cannock HC	Church Lane, Cannock WS11 1RR
Yorks	mainly Wakefield

Other (Match) Venues

Match venues not in the either list of centres above are:

Bath University	Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY
Bournemouth HC	Chapel Gate, East Parley, Christchurch BH23 6BL
Cokethorpe	Hardwick, Witney, OX29 7PU
Haberashers' Askes	Butterfly Lane, Elstree, WD6 3AF
Oaklands College	Smallford, Hatfield Road, Oaklands, St Albans AL4 0JA
Old Loughtonians	Roding SC, Luxborough Lane, Chigwell IG7 5AB
Leeds	Weetwood Sports Park Ring Road, Weetwood LS16 5AU

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Futures' Cup

Futures' Cup is at St Albans dates are subject to confirmation but likely to be from Wednesday 21 to Saturday 24 August (Bank Holiday weekend), the prep day is Sunday 18 August at a centre relevant to your cluster.

Selection for Futures' Cup will be announced on the EH website on Friday 12 July.