FORMER SA Women’s Hockey player, Shelley (Russell) Jones, will head up the KZN-leg of the nationwide hockey development programme for school girls in La Lucia on 6 and 7 July.
Along with a stellar line-up of current and former international hockey icons, Shelley hopes to inspire, motivate and identify young talent as part of the Investec Hockey Academy’s high-performance courses.
She played striker and midfielder for the SA Women’s Hockey team for 13 years and has accumulated 280 caps during this time. The double Olympian believes that playing sport from a young age has benefits which surpass the sports field and hopes to encourage SA’s youth to play sport.
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Aimed at growing the sport’s participation and skills from a grassroots level, the academy offers a fundamental players’ course (ages 8 to 11) that aims to build a solid foundation for the sport, an intermediate players’ course (ages 12 to 15) that focuses on skills development and the advanced players’ course (ages 16 to 18) that will provide players with position-specific training.
To register, visit www.investechockeyacademy.com or contact Shelley Russell on shelley@investecacademy.com.
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