GB Hockey proudly welcomes ten new gamers which were chosen to be a part of the centralised programme at Bisham Abbey.
For the lads’s programme, Jacob Payton (Surbiton), Henry Croft (Beeston), Fred Newbold (Wimbledon) and Calum Douglas (Southgate) have all been supplied contracts whereas Katie Curtis (Surbiton), Rebecca Daniels (Clifton Robinsons), Georgie Gardens (College of Exeter), Millie Holme (College of Exeter), Pippa Lock (East Grinstead), and Amy Thompson (East Grinstead) have been chosen for the ladies’s programme.
Croft made his GB debut on the London leg of the FIH Hockey Professional League and stole the present with a world class purpose in opposition to Eire. Welsh worldwide Newbold has been a member of the GB Elite Improvement Programme and captained the aspect within the 2022 Sultan of Johor Cup the place they received a bronze medal.
Payton was a member of the GB U21 staff that competed on the 2023 Sultan of Johor the place the staff completed in fifth place. Douglas has 5 senior caps for Scotland and most just lately performed for the EuroHockey Championship Qualifier.
Curtis and Gardens have been a part of the England Hockey squad that competed on the Junior World Cup in Chile. Welsh internationals Holme and Daniels have been a part of Staff Wales on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.
Lock represented England on the 2019 Junior EuroHockey Championships and on the 2021/22 FIH Hockey Professional league. Thompson is new to the England and GB arrange however has excelled for East Grinstead within the England Hockey League.
The gamers have been chosen after impressing throughout the Expertise Affirmation interval – involving camps at Bisham over the previous few months.
The Expertise Affirmation course of remains to be ongoing, with different athletes being given additional alternatives to stake their declare for a spot within the males’s or ladies’s programmes earlier than the ultimate squads are decided in early 2025.