Old Loughtonians Hockey Club have over 500 playing and social members and successfully runs 15 adult teams and numerous youth teams throughout the hockey season. During the summer months hockey continues with both men’s and ladies’ summer leagues. The club also participates in a variety of tournaments and cup competitions at all levels.
During the year social events are organised for the members culminating in the End of Season Ball in April.
The Club has an open policy of membership and always welcomes new members of any ability.
Top class coaching for all sections of the club is run regularly throughout the season by our team of dedicated coaches.
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The London Olympics 2012
At the recent International Hockey Federation conference in London, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) confirmed to the conference delegates that Old Loughtonians is the designated 2012 training venue. This means Olympic hockey teams will use our pitches to train in the months leading up to the Olympics. We are privileged to have been selected as a training venue and must now utilise this opportunity.
Why is it good for us?
The prestige of being associated with the games is in itself an honour and a great boost to us as a leading hockey club. More importantly, the use of Old Loughtonians necessarily means that our pitches will have to be of a similar standard to those in the Olympic Park in Stratford. This gives us a focus for renewal and improvement of our Luxborough Lane facilities.
Our aim is for OLHC to be the best club of its type in the UK and our involvement with the biggest sporting event in the world is another opportunity to help us achieve that objective.
Why have we been selected as a training venue?
In 2004 our then President, Derek Higgins OBE signed a letter of intent in which our club’s facilities were offered as the training venue for the 2012 Olympics. As a result, Old Loughtonians Hockey Club was proposed as the training venue for the games in the successful London Olympics bid submission. Sadly Derek died in late 2004 before the dramatic outcome of the bidding process was announced in Singapore in July 2005.
Although the Management Committee have been in discussions with the 2012 organising team we have not made any formal announcement until now as we were awaiting official confirmation.
A note of caution. We will be asked to enter binding agreements which are designed to protect the use of the London 2012 brand and regulate our relationship with the LOCOG. These are yet to be signed and until such time as they are we must take care not to use the games logo or infringe the rights of the Olympic commercial sponsors.
This is obviously fantastic news for the club. Such an honour means we have a great deal of work to complete before 2012 and we will be asking all members to back the club in this venture.
