2019 Hockey NZ Annual Report
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2019HOCKEY NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2019 OUTCOMES VANTAGE BLACK STICKS WOMEN WON 21,889 OCEANIA CUP SPECTATORS VANTAGE BLACK STICKS ATTENDED HOME INTERNATIONAL MEN & WOMEN TEST MATCHES QUALIFY FOR THE 2020 TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES GROW THE HOCKEY COMMUNITY 29,610 SUMMER HOCKEY PLAYERS 60,200 14.9% GROWTH FROM 2018 TOTAL WINTER PLAYERS 1.0% GROWTH FROM 2018 593 TEAMS SCHOOL CHILDREN RECEIVED DELIVERY COMPETED AT 34 OF SMALL STICKS DOMESTIC 62,591 TOURNAMENTS UMPIRES AT MAJOR 3,834 PEOPLE 88 INTERNATIONAL ATTENDED COACH TOURNAMENTS DEVELOPMENT C URSES WEBSITE VIEWS 312,000 1.075M COMBINED 691k FACEBOOK FAN BASE 5,730 MEDIA MINUTES VIEWED OF FACEBOOK MENTIONS FOR AND YOUTUBE 208,000 LIVE STREAMED VANTAGE BLACK STICKS INSTAGRAM ENGAGEMENTS MATCHES IN 2019 CONSOLIDATED $57,266 SURPLUS ON AN OVERALL TURNOVER $1.27M RECEIVED FROM OUR $183k+ OF $9.3 MILLION FUNDING PARTNERS OF INCREASED COMMERCIAL REVENUE 2 HOCKEY NEW ZEALAND CONTENTS 4. CEO Report 6. Chair’s Report 7. Hockey Foundation 8. WIN ON THE WORLD STAGE 8 8. Key 2019 Milestones 9. Awards 10. Vantage Black Sticks Men’s Results 12. Vantage Black Sticks Women’s Results 13. Vantage Black Sticks Milestones 14. WORLD CLASS EVENTS 14 14. FIH Pro League, Olympic Qualification 15. Ford National Hockey League 16. GROW THE HOCKEY COMMUNITY 16 16. Coaching Development 18. National Development Teams 19. Umpires & Officials 20. Small Sticks 21. 2019 Hockey New Zealand Tournament Results 22. 2019 Masters 24. National Indians and NZ Māori Hockey Tournaments 25. 2019 Player Numbers 26. 2019 Umpire Numbers 26. STRENGTHEN THE BUSINESS 26 27. Strengthen the Business 28. Digital Engagement 29. Funding 30. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 30 30. Independent Auditor’s Report 31. Statement of Comprehensive Revenue and Expenses 31. Statement of Changes in Net Assets 32. Statement of Financial Position 33. Statement of Cash Flows 33. Notes to the Financial Statements (Extract) 35 35. HOCKEY NEW ZEALAND WHĀNAU ANNUAL REPORT • 2019 3 CEO REPORT We have welcomed in Avan Polo, Regan participants, at all levels, have a quality Bain, Peter Lowndes, Aniceto Rodrigues experience and remain in not only hockey and Graham Shaw who have all made a but sport for a lifetime. positive start and contribution to their time at Hockey New Zealand. Katie Glynn WIN and Jude Menezes both started in late Both Vantage Black Sticks Teams started October on a full-time basis as Assistant the year competing in the FIH Pro League, Coaches for our Vantage Black Sticks a new global league with each of the Women, although both have previously top nine nations, both men and women, worked with us in a part time capacity. playing the other twice, home and away. GROW Our Vantage Black Sticks Women finished sixth after some inconsistent 2019 WAS THE YEAR OF DELIVERY Our winter membership grew for the performances throughout the league. 11th consecutive year rising from 42,894 FOR OUR 2020 STRATEGY, IN Their final leg of the FIH Pro League was in 2009 to over 60,000 members in 2019. a 35 day tour of USA and Europe, across WHICH WE IMPLEMENTED A Summer hockey continues to grow well 5 different time zones, which concluded NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT GAME with 28,770 members, 3.4% above 2018. A with a match against Great Britain on a key reason for this growth is an invested, CHANGERS FOR OUR SPORT: drop-in hockey turf at ‘The Stoop’ in front capable and aligned hockey community of 13,000 fans. with the majority of our Associations • The new global FIH Pro League delivering quality programmes. Our Vantage Black Sticks Men finished eighth out of 8 teams in the men’s draw. • Completing year one of the new MOU Throughout last year we invested time For the first time in a long time, our men that provides a better hockey/life and resources into understanding our played no one else but seven out of the balance and greater pay to our Vantage technology requirements better, engaging top eight nations for a six-month period. Black Sticks players a new internal IT provider via a commercial One of the key recommendations from • Introduction of the new Performance arrangement with CCL, whilst undertaking the 2016 Rio Olympic Games debrief, was Network for players ranked outside of a big piece of work finalising a technology that we needed to play these countries our Vantage Black Sticks Players provider for a whole of sport member more consistently, so that we are more management system. The real benefits familiar with them at pinnacle events Key Highlights: of this will be seen for years to come as like the Olympic Games and World Cup. • Signing new commercial agreements: we further understand our people, what Having our men in the FIH Pro League, is • CCL (Computer Concepts Ltd) - back of drives them and how we can enhance a key plank in ensuring this competition shirt partner for the Vantage Black Sticks their hockey experience. at the highest level remains for our men’s • Sky Sport Next - Domestic tournaments The conclusion of the Strategy team. • NZ Sport Collective - Secondary Schools Delivery Review enabled us to have Qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic • 11th year of consolidated growth on a greater understanding of the role Games for our Vantage Black Sticks traditional winter participation to reach of our Associations and our role in teams started with the Oceania Cup in 60,000 members the community hockey space. Our Rockhampton in September. • Agreement to a new domestic Associations are integral to the delivery tournament calendar that will create of community hockey and we can safely Our Women were able to qualify directly greater Association pride and more say that our community hockey is going by defeating Australia for the first time opportunity for people to be involved from strength to strength with strong since 2011. Whilst our Men, who played with quality development programmes Associations with significantly increasing well in game two of the best-of-three • Development and piloting of the Coach capability. However, we can’t afford to series against the No. 1 world ranked Developer programme take our eye off the ball, as we need to Australian team, unfortunately missed • Oceania Cup Winners and direct entry continue to be ahead of the game and out, so moved to an Olympic Qualifying qualification for our Vantage Black Sticks work with our Associations collaboratively series against Korea, the first week of Women to continue to drive strong growth and November. • Olympic Qualification for our Vantage gains with our community participation. The team had a pre-qualifying series Black Sticks Men with a victory over In September, alongside Sport New against Japan, played in Stratford, Korea in Stratford Taranaki in October as an ideal lead in • Average attendance of the FIH Pro Zealand and four other major team sports: rugby, cricket, netball and football, we to playing Korea in which they gained League home matches at 2,350 per decisive victories in both matches to gain match launched the ‘Balance is Better’ initiative. After a number of years of working entry into the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. PEOPLE with those sports our messaging is The Development programmes continue consistent with ensuring that all our youth to provide a strong focus for the next Our people have led strongly out of a participants have a quality experience and tier of athlete, and we have made difficult period for Hockey New Zealand, remain in youth sport. strong progress in this area through the where we have had to make changes and leadership of Greg Nicol and Simon Brill. implement new systems. The majority of our Associations have embraced this messaging and in many Many camps including specialists’ camps Our Board have continued to provide cases implemented innovative changes for drag flicking and goal keeping were strong leadership and guidance. We in how youth sport is delivered. It is this undertaken in 2019 and we combined this welcomed a new co-opted Board clarity of thought and willingness to stay with international competition for both member: Tracy Ellis, who provided ahead of the game which is enabling us the men (Sultan Johor Cup in October) important guidance in the People and to grow and develop as societal trends and women (Trans-Tasman in November/ Culture subcommittee of the Board. occur. Thank you to those progressive December which included matches The following team members moved and willing leaders within our hockey against India). on from Hockey New Zealand and they Associations. Our Performance Network was signed go with our best wishes: Mark Hager, Our community game is in a good, healthy off by the Hockey New Zealand Board in Sean Dancer, Greg Nicol (contractor) and state and we will continue to be creative October. Sandra Partridge. and forward thinking to ensure our 4 HOCKEY NEW ZEALAND CEO REPORT DELIVER Kookaburra, Ford, BDO and Polytan. more on Page 26. With the introduction of the new FIH Pro We’re thankful to all our commercial We are extremely grateful for those League, we lifted our level of delivery for partners for their committed support of people who give to support Hockey New players, umpires, officials and fans with 16 hockey at a national level. We’re especially Zealand. home matches against the best teams in grateful to our Principal Partner, Vantage Sir Owen Glenn continued his very the world. Windows and Doors, whose commitment generous support to our players, which to taking hockey forward has helped Commencing with a men’s and women’s has been very well received by them immensely to secure a stable financial double-header against the Netherlands and will enable us to take on the other platform from which to build on, and are a in January, the home schedule of the Pro leading nations on the world stage at a company who leverages well to help grow League was played at two venues, North comparative level.