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Knock Ladies Hockey Club CENTENARY 2010 Knock Ladies Knock Ladies A s e l e c t Hockey Club w i o w n w o . f k K n o L c H k C h o m c e k m e y b . e c r o s . , u 2 k 0 0 9 - 1 0 A Celebration of 100 Years of Hockey Knock Ladies Hockey Club CENTENARY 2010 Knock Ladies A Message from the Irish President Knock Hockey Club, I am delighted to have been invited by Knock Hockey Club Hockey Club to join with you in your centenary celebrations. A century is a great achievement for all the members, the first members who had the foresight and ability to set the club on its way, and the 100 Years of Hockey present members who are keeping it going and have now seen this milestone passed. You are showing the way to the clubs coming up behind you. Your club has had many accolades through your players Table of Contents being selected for national and international honours, but the greatest Page honour is to play for your own club, to take part in league and cup A Message from the IHA President 1 competitions at whatever level you are entered into. A Message from Knock Ladies Hockey Club President 2 Knock Ladies Hockey Club History 3 Black Eyes, Broken Fingers and Breastfeeding 18 It is a wonderful experience to be involved in the playing, - A Rough Guide to Indoor Hockey administration and growth of your own club and Knock Hockey Club is Knock Youth / U18 20 a great example for all to see and one you yourselves can take huge Memoirs of Knock’s 100 years 22 pride in. On my own behalf and on behalf of the Irish Hockey Knock Ladies Hockey Club Social 30 Association I congratulate you and wish you success in your next KLHC Successes 32 century. Knock LHC Hall of Fame - Individual Achievements 34 Knock LHC Hall of Fame – Office Bearers, Ulster Women’s Hockey Union 39 Doreen Howe IHA President 1 Knock Ladies Hockey Club CENTENARY 2010 nock Ladies Hockey Club A MESSAGE FROM History KNOCK LADIES Knock Ladies Hockey Club has finally reached that HOCKEY CLUB most honourable milestone – its centenary – and so PRESIDENT it seemed 1910 would be a good place to start with this historical outline. Then, like all good historians we did the right research to ensure that our facts were I consider myself very fortunate and honoured accurate and then to our delight, amazement and to hold the position of President of Knock even a little consternation, we discovered that the Ladies Hockey Club in this year of marking our club was in fact in existence in 1906. So for Knock Centenary. Ladies 104th birthday, this booklet celebrates the centenary years and a little bit more. This may not be One hundred years is a very long time in any Club’s history and I must pay the greatest respect to those who have gone before us for their the definitive written record of the club’s activity but wisdom, determination and commitment to ensure Knock Ladies Hockey it is our most sincere attempt at marking this Club has remained a thriving Club. auspicious achievement. At this point we should add the obligatory disclaimer: while we have searched Over the years we have experienced some exceptional eras of sporting high and low in Ulster, Ireland and in the public achievements. One thing always seems to have remained the same and records office to verify all data, there might be the that is the goodwill to serve club and Province, strong friendships of occasional gap. If anyone has any additional members throughout the Club and fine sportsmanship on the pitch. information, please let us know so we can correct any We have been very grateful to all our Sponsors who have supported us inexactitudes for the bi-centenary celebrations! over the years. Our present ones you will see named in our history book. The theme for the year has been the past, the present and the future. KNOCK LADIES HOCKEY CLUB is one We have read about the past and to our surprise and delight, we find we of the oldest clubs in Ireland still in existence. The are older than first thought! first official record is found in the annals of an Ulster Committee meeting from November 1906. The present we are enjoying and the future is in good hands with 3 senior Mentioned in the minutes of an AGM on the 30th teams, our newly established Veterans team and a strong youth policy, April at 11.30am in the Ladies Parlour, to be precise, which will be the springboard of the Club in the years ahead. where “Bank Buildings Knock” was represented at the I would like to thank our Club Committee, our Centenary Committee, crucial meeting when rules were revised in general Coaches, Umpires and all our members for making this a year to and the definitive rule XV was reprinted, decreeing remember and I wish the Club every success in the next 100 years. that… Mary Gregg “Hockey skirts must be six inches from the ground all round. This rule to be strictly The height of fasion (off the pitch) adhered to and no hat pins or hats with stiff in 1909/10. brims to be worn in matches.” 2 3 Knock Ladies Hockey Club Knock Ladies Hockey Club CENTENARY 2010 CENTENARY 2010 Hard to imagine how they sprinted or tackled, never mind scored goals kitted out in long skirts and hats, but then they were ladies. At their next committee meeting it was decided… “That the Senior County match should be on the 10th December on the arrival of the 12.55 train from Belfast. Admission 6d – members of league and children 3d.” It’s not explicitly recorded, but the club appears to have been connected with Knock Ladies School at Lalaghar, 6 Knock Road, Belfast as well as the Garrett School. It’s impressive to note that three players were selected for the junior Ulster team from Knock at the time... “The Knock players were selected conditionally on their being eligible for their school team as Knock had no junior team entered.” Ballyhackamore At the subsequent AGM, Miss Herald of Knock was elected at the first Circa 1910 committee meeting November 12th 1907 at 11.30 – Miss Herald proposed Miss Garrett of Knock to replace her on the committee. The club, founded by women from the Knock area in east Belfast, has always been open to members from all walks of life with neither division nor In March 1908, Miss N Garrett played in goals for Ireland against England selection preventing entry. In the early days, the ladies met on Wednesday in Dublin, making her our first ever international player. It seems she is the afternoons for their run about, and in the course of ten decades it has very same lady who went on to become a leading light in the Golf world and provided a formidable tally of great names that have played in its colours. to this day the Nellie Garrett foursomes are played Styles might have changed with fashions but the colours have been annually at the end of each season at consistent - the get up comprising green tunics, white skirts, red girdle and Knock Golf Club. a tie in formal days as compared with the today’s more streamlined kit of red socks, green skirt and red top for home matches and white socks and top for away matches. S McCann Shooting Over the decades the club has had a somewhat nomadic existence with at goal numerous venues becoming home after its inception in the Knock area, with club HQ listed as being on the Shore Road, Dixon Park, Boucher Road and Strathearn to name just a few. In recent years the club has settled happily at Shaw’s Bridge and Balmoral sharing top of the range facilities with other clubs. Who knows, some day we might even have our own Astroturf pitch? 4 5 Knock Ladies Hockey Club Knock Ladies Hockey Club CENTENARY 2010 CENTENARY 2010 The club has made an outstanding contribution to Ulster and Irish hockey It is always difficult writing an historical piece, fearing you may omit someone not only through its club teams’ success and providing many Inter- in error, but it is worth highlighting some individuals in the club. In provincial and International players, but through its generous and diligent administration in particular, as well as being an international player, the administrators, coaches and umpires. The evident dedication and spirit of redoubtable Miss Garrett was Club Secretary and Treasurer for over twenty these ladies in the club’s formative years is something that is undoubtedly years. Knock’s Mrs Charley/Charters became the first Ulster President; a part of the Knock legacy handed down over the decades to all of us today. position filled by our club members a further five times this century – Miss I Brandon, Miss B Rodden, Mrs M Hopkins, Miss M Oak and Mrs H Milligan. In the early years the club fielded only one team but that produced international players even then, those who combined to help Knock win The legendary Mrs Charters was known as ‘the mother of coaching’ with the All-Ireland Senior Cup for the first time in 1913 – making us the first her Wednesday afternoon class for young players showing potential. Many Ulster club to do so. Seventy years later Knock was again the first Ulster an international player owes a debt of gratitude for her pearls of wisdom.
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