Skills & Coaching
Torres Strait wins Hockey Challenge in Karumba
The team travelling from the Torres Strait has won the first Gulf -v- Cape/Torres Hockey Challenge played at Karumba.
Western Games - Hockey participants
As part of the Gulf Vacation Care program, young people from Karumba, Croydon and Normanton to play in the first Gulf -v- Cape/Torres Hockey Challenge.
Training and coaching workshops, play activities and the challenge matches were all conducted at the Karumba Recreation and Golf Club, the new home for hockey in Karumba.
The Hockey Challenge was part of the Western Games that is held every 2 years.
This Challenge brings together the hockey programs within the Gulf Savannah communities and the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of Cape York.
The Gulf Hockey Program will be played in term 3 combining Active After School Programs and School activities culminating in the Karumba Hockey Festival to be played in September 2009.
The Torres Strait will run after school community programs and will run hockey as school sport in Term 4 culminating in the Migi Kokan Competition on Thursday Island.
