NEK Field Hockey Camps

07/19/2023

06/20/2023

For incoming 9-12 graders at NCUHS!

08/10/2022

📸 One of our favorite shots from last week - 9 year old Avery keeping our high school goalie on her toes during practice! 🥅🏑

08/07/2022

Holding the title of "Captain" is a tremendous honor and big responsibility for any athlete because it means you are a trusted leader for your team.

Positive energy, preserverence, coachability, selflessness, and a good work ethic - these are the specific traits we look for in players during the week of field hockey camp. Each year, on the last day, we recognize four girls who have demonstrated some or all of these qualities, to be our designated team captains.

These four, Ryker, Elodie, Jocelyn and Eva, not only worked hard to improve their own skills this week, but they also motivated others to do the same. They will wear our captain bands proudly for 2022. 🏅

08/04/2022

And when our players go home at night? ... Still thinking about field hockey. 😅
SAFETY FIRST!!!

(Big thanks to one of our hockey moms, Christine Russell, for forwarding this to us! 😂)

08/04/2022

This picture looks totally staged - but it's not! Just seven mini-games starting all at once with a good old-fashioned bully. We practice 1v1 when we're teaching dodges and tackles as a way to stay in possession of the ball at all times. Helps reduce the number of whistles in a game and improves the flow for your team. 🏑

08/04/2022

Positioning can be one of the hardest things for young players to master. When you have a BIG group on a BIG field, game play can look like a swarm of bees around the ball at first. 🐝😬🐝
Sometimes you gotta take a minute to walk the girls through the role of each position and how offense/defensive "jobs" work during a game.

Coach Amelia uses visuals to give her players a birds eye view of the field and help them understand how to react to the ball as a team working TOGETHER instead of a bunch of individual players trying to do all the work themselves. 🧠 💡