ALBION FIELD HOCKEY COMPETITIVE LEAGUE
League Overview: Albion Field Hockey's Competitive League is centered around an athlete wanting to pursue field hockey in college or is looking for intensive training to increase their skills to play with their respective school teams. The training sessions, when not in season for their school, will be mandatory, unless previously cleared with the coaching staff. Player's commitment to attend practices is paramount for the entire team to achieve continued growth.
Practice Schedule: Generally, each team will have two practices during the week. The weekdays and times will be posted under their respective age group. Saturday are mandatory for all players, even when a player's school is in season. If a player's school team has weekend tournament or game, that practice will be excused, so the player can partake with their school. Mid-week practices will focus more on individual player development and increasing their personal skillset. The Saturday sessions, will either be a series of scrimmages (similar to tournament format) or team strategy sessions, focused on the entire team working together.
Age Groups: U8 (Ages 5-7), U10 (Ages 8-9), U12 (Ages 10-11), U14 (Ages 12-13), U16 (Ages 14-15), U18 (Ages 16-18). If there are not enough players at anyone age group, we will collapse the groups and the younger age bracket will play up with the next older group.
Travel: While Field Hockey in the State of Texas is growing, it is still not at the point where there are many in state tournament opportunities. We are actively working with other clubs in the state of Texas to hold play days and other tournament sessions that are more close to home. Without access to local tournaments, we must travel to take part in tournament opportunities where players can get attention from college coaches and players can get access to real life playing opportunities to put their training into practice. To that end, we will have tournament opportunities at every level. Some age groups will have more opportunities than others. Be mindful that many of these tournaments will occur when your players are off from school, such as Thanksgiving, Easter, Summer vacation, etc. We try to limit how many tournaments we attend on a yearly basis, but some travel will be required throughout the year as part of being on the competitive team.
Uniforms: Albion Field Hockey Club uses Capelli Sport as our uniform provider. After a player is registered for their respective age group, an email from Capelli will follow in the days after their registration. When that email is received, please order their uniforms as soon as possible to ensure they arrive in time for the start of the regular season. As part of the package, there will be both practice and tournament uniforms. The practice uniform is the only accepted uniform for practices.