Hoodie sales are back! After a two-year hiatus we are bringing this opportunity for you to order a hoodie for your VJFHA participant and fully customize it.

You can buy an official VJFHA Hoodie sweatshirt and customize your name or any text on the back.

Hoodies come in 9 different colours and in youth and adult sizes.

Cost: $40.00
Add: $8.00 for name on back

Deadline for ordering April 28, 2024

Order online: https://store.passionsports.ca/vjfhstore/shop/home

Club Championship season is around the corner

We are organizing teams for U12, U14, U16 and U18 Girls Divisions. This an opportunity that is in addition to regular season in the Victoria Junior League and the costs are also additional. This is a fun opportunity to compete in a tournament against other junior league teams in BC.

Full details of tournament dates and schedules are listed here: http://victoriajuniorfieldhockey.ca/clubs/393/pages/142476

In order to start the process, we need to know who is interested. Before you register online please carefully consider the commitments required:
- player assessment dates (reach out if there is a conflict for U18 and U12 as its coming up)
- team practices
- financial and time commitment to the tournament with travel and accommodation

Depending on who and how many express interest, we may form multiple teams for Tier 2 or we may create a more competitive team and a more recreational team and put a team in either Tier. There will be no friend requests for this process.

Online Registration: http://victoriajuniorfieldhockey.ca/forms/25556-2024-Girls-Club-Championship-Registration

Deadline to register and express interest:
U12: April 24, 2024 at 5:00 pm
U14: May 4, 2024 at 5:00pm
U16: May 4, 2024 at 5:00 pm
U18: April 22, 2024 at 5:00pm

Please note that this opportunity is a priority for those who are current members of the VJFHA but for U16 and U18 teams that don’t have enough interest we may consider non-active VJFHA members but they must be Field Hockey BC members and they must also participate in the entire process including online registration and assessments.

Additional assessment opportunities will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Ali Baggott, Technical Director:
techdirector@victoriajuniorfieldhockey.ca

Please fill out the below information to sign up as a volunteer coach for the 2024 Victoria Junior Field Hockey League (Boys and Girls) from April 13 to June 23, 2024. Please note that the information collected will be used to best place you with a team (age, gender, etc.) and other coaches to both meet your availability and preference as well as your experience level. We won’t be able to accommodate ALL requests.

Please sign up ASAP online here: https://forms.gle/ULyVG75R6Lvydn5fA

Full season schedules are listed here: http://victoriajuniorfieldhockey.ca/pages/6257
(older age groups on Sunday afternoon times may be TBD or flex)

Coach Certification requirements:
1) ALL: Making Headway
2) ALL: Making Ethical Decisions (MED)
3) ALL: Safe Sport
4) ALL: Fundamental Movement Skills (Feb. 25 or Mar. 3)
5) Head coaches + Asst Coaches: Coach Initiation in Sport
6) Head coaches: FHC Community Coach course

Coach education can start now: http://victoriajuniorfieldhockey.ca/clubs/393/pages/182500

If you have questions, please contact Ali Baggott at techdirector@victoriajuniorfieldhockey.ca or 250-418-5633.

Please fill out ONE online form PER volunteer.

FHBC is excited to be partnering with PISE to deliver two Fundamental Movement Skills courses in Victoria ahead of the Spring Season. NCCP Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) provides a comprehensive introduction to the Fundamental Movement Skills and the core-competencies of the NCCP, with the help of significant hands-on activities. It is also a required course in the Community Coach Context. Community Coach Trained status will soon be a requirement for all recreational club coaches across the Province. We strongly recommend that coaches take advantage of this opportunity!

*This course is mandatory for ALL 2024 Junior League coaches. We would love every certified this year if possible but we will also run it next year, too. *

Coaches will have the choice of attending one of two dates:

Option 1 – Sunday February 25, 9am – 1:30pm at PISE
Register by February 18

Option 2 – Sunday March 3, 9am – 1:30pm at PISE
Register by February 25

This course is FREE for FHBC Registered Participants or $73.50 for all other coaches. VJFHA coaches who are full time coaches in the 2024 season will receive a reimbursement for their fee.

Register here: https://www.rampregistrations.com/login?v3=8827034a

Login to RAMP
Click on Camp and Clinic Registration
Register for the course you would like to attend

On Jan. 26, several Victoria-based and Victoria-connected field hockey members were honoured at the Annual Volunteer and Community Contribution awards hosted by Field Hockey BC at Heritage Hall.

Field Hockey BC President, Denise McGeachy, emceed the event that featured annual award winners, volunteer recognition awards and community club recognition awards. Victoria was well represented in those awards. Long-time national team member for both the senior outdoor and indoor women’s team Kathleen Leahy was honoured as the top female senior athlete. Leahy was away in the Czech Republic with the indoor national team at the time so Ali Baggott was there to accept the award on her behalf. Recent mainland-transfer Mackenna Brown, who follows her sister Wynn’s footsteps is an adopted-islander who is now attending St. Michael’s University School, was named the top U16 female athlete after leading BC to a U16 National Championship title this past summer. Mackenna is also a member of the Lynx FHC and a NextGEN athlete.

Long-time Sailors FHC member and former UVic and national team member Ali Baggott was honoured for her contributions to women’s field hockey, joining a prestigious list of names on the Barbara Schrodt award. Former Vikes men’s field hockey player and now Canada’s top male official, Tyler Klenk, was named Umpire of the Year following a season being recognized as the Canada West and U SPORTS Umpire of the Year and umpiring the gold-medal games at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago and one of the men’s Olympic qualifiers in Oman just earlier this month.

Long-time former FHBC board members Brian Groos and Brenda Rushton were honoured for their volunteer contributions after both have given much time to both the provincial organizing committee and the local hockey scene. Rushton was highlighted for her time and energy starting technical officer training and mentorship in the province.

The Victoria Junior FH Association nominated long-time equipment manager Kelvin Kum for a community club recognition award. Throughout all three of his children going through the junior league, Kelvin has been the equipment manager and a board member giving most of his time on the weekends throughout the 10-week program and beyond to keeping players and coaches armed with what they need to have a great season.

FH Victoria also nominated Jagir Dhanowa for his contributions in the umpiring circle on Vancouver Island. Never one to shy away from a last minute spot that has opened up or driving to Duncan to umpire, Jagir has been so important to keeping the officiating circles going. Jagir also contributed heavily so that local umpires could be well-equipped with jackets and radio head sets, and is a valued member of the umpiring circle.

Annual Awards
Senior Female Player of the Year: Kathleen Leahy (Team Canada, UVic, Lynx FHC, Hawks FHC)
Junior Female Player of the Year: Mackenna Brown (Team BC, North Vancouver FHC, Lynx FHC, SMUS)
Barbara Schrodt Award for contribution to women’s field hockey: Ali Baggott (Sailors FHC)
Umpire of the Year: Tyler Klenk

Volunteer Recognition Awards
Governance support: Brian Groos (Rebels FHC)
Governance & Technical program support: Brenda Rushton

Community Club Recognition Awards
Kelvin Kum (Sailors FHC, VJFHA)
Jagir Dhanowa (FH Victoria, Vancouver Island Umpires Association)

Congratulations to everyone.