Hockey team named

Press, 7 September 1976, Page 6

Hockey team named

Three Canterbury women: — Pat Barwick, the captain,! Lynn Schulz and Judith Phillips — have been included in the New Zealand hockey team to tour the Netherlands and England for six weeks in February and March next year.

There are few changes! from the team that finished! third at the international tournament in Edinburgh last ' year, so a base of experience* from that side has been retained. The 14 players chosen are:: Margaret Munro, Pat: Whiteman, Jan Neil, Mary-| anne Gray (Hawkes Bay);! Gael Fergusson, Maxeen; Gooder, Glynis Horspool(Auckland): Tui Raina (Waikato); Barwick, Schulz, Phil-; lips (Canterbury); Jenny Me-! Donald (vice-captain), Adri-' enne Alleway, Phillipa Lunn (Otago). Barwick has been captain'

i of the New Zealand team ; since 1971. The manager of last year’s team, Mrs Gladys O’Brien (Waikato), will again manage the team, and a former New Zealand player and member of the Hawkes Bay side that shared the K Cup at the natj ional tournament last week, j Shirley Eddy, will coach the j team. ! In the past, teams that 'have gone overseas have usually had a different coach, but the New Zealand • Women’s Hockey Association (wants to retain Mrs Eddy for I some time. I It hopes to be one of the j six teams at the Moscow (Olympics in 1980 and continuity of coaching in the next (four years will be vital for the (Success of the team. There are five new caps — Munro, Gooder, Raina, Alleway and Gray. Alleway is a

i former Canterbury plaver Another Canterbury' player ; and member of the New Zealand team last year, Shirlev “Haig, was unavailable for the ’tour. ■ There will definitely be an I international against England • at the famous Wemblev StadJium on March 5, and a second • against the Netherlands is likely. For the New Zealanders • the England match will be the . highlight of the tour. Crowds Ij of 60,000 regularly attend ('women’s internationals at the ' ground. In the past New Zealand • teams have had international • experience once every three •jor four years, but now the N.Z.W.H.A. hopes to send a •team overseas every two years. In 1979 it plans to send a ■team to an international : tournament in Canada.