Omanu Beach Hockey Club

A big congrats to our red ladies - Mon and Taylah who made the NHC team! We are beyond proud and are excited to see how you ladies go. You have the Omanu family supporting ❤️💙

A big congrats to our girls who made the Tauranga U16s! We are so proud of you all - good luck for the tournament 💙❤️

Harriet, Emily, Riley, Chelsea, Mila, Georgia and Tayla 💓

We were so lucky to have Jaimee on the field for Omanu this year.
Congrats on the recognition of your achievements at Harbour hockey Jaimee!

That’s a wrap ladies! What an amazing season for our two teams 💙❤️

Our Premier Blue team took home 1st place (second year in a row). They played an epic final game and finished with a score of 4-1.

The Senior Reds took home 4th place! Their goal was to get top 4 and that’s exactly what they have achieved!

We couldn’t have done it without our amazing coaches and support - Krish, Kate, Bev, Craig and Toni you have been nothing but the best.

A big thank you to all our amazing supporters throughout this season. We are blessed to have such a great community behind us. Bring on next year!

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FINALS DAY! Saturday 17th August 🙌🏼

What a season it’s been with our two amazing teams. The culture within our teams is incredible and it’s been a pleasure to be a part of the competition this year 💙❤️

Playing for 1st/2nd place is our Premier Blue team against the Wanderers at 3.30 on Tahatai 💙

Playing for 3rd/4th place is our Senior Red team against The Mount at 2pm on Whanga ❤️

Top 4 for both of our teams! Come show your support and cheer us on ✨🥳🤞🏼🏑

💙💙Player of the Day💙💙

This weeks POD for the blues is Meila Eades.
is one of our speedy forwards and her gutsy and unrelenting performance on Saturday has earned her the jacket for this week.

Meila’s cracking pace (and goals) have earned the blue team a place in the FINAL this Sat.
Thanks for being awesome Meila!

Thanks for the shots 📸

SEMI FINAL time!!!

This Saturday come on down and watch our team take on, well, our other team!!

This week we have a 💙 vs ❤️ showdown, as both teams are hungry for a spot in the finals.

With both teams having skill and speed to burn this game promises to be an awesome matchup, so come along and support an Omanu team make its way to the FINAL 🎉

The cafe and bar will be open in the pavillion to keep you all fed and hydrated!

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Massive thanks to Eddie and the team at Go Hockey Tauranga for donating an epic TOA stick recently won by one of the lucky winners of the Omanu Beach raffle.

If you are in the market for quality hockey gear, go down and see the team at Go Hockey Tauranga!

38B Tawa Street, Mt Maunganui.

Omanu Beach Players of the Day.

💙 Premier Blue
Taylah Carter was the Blues POD this week igniting the team into action with a superb goal from a penalty corner. Taylah’s consistently high work rate and extra long reach are such valuable assets to the team!

❤️Senior Red
Chelsea Olesen was in form for the reds this week. She was POD for her go-get em attitude on the field as well as consistently giving it 100% every week. Well done Chelsea!

⚡️QUARTER FINALS TIME⚡️

It’s business time for Omanu Beach Hockey Club this weekend! Come on down to the turf tomorrow evening and check out the ladies fight out the respective teams in the quarter finals round 💪

Prem Blue at 5pm on Whanga 💙
Senior Red at 6.30 on Tahatai ❤️

Our girls have been working hard all season and it’s not about to end any time soon! Don’t miss out on these epic matches, see you there e te whānau 🤩🤩

✨players of the day ✨

Our POD this week is Mila Watherston. This week she went and scored a beautiful goal that helped with our winning result. Well done Mila ❤️

Another Watherston lady for our blues, congrats to Eva this weeks POD! Eva is one of our young guns who has stepped up massively, with the ability to slot into multiple positions including centre half where she dominates by marking tough and running so hard for her teammates. Awesome work Eva 💙

Spend a sunny Saturday supporting the OBHC women in their last pool-play games this weekend! Watch the Reds start us off at 12.30pm on Tahatai before heading over to Moana to watch the Blues at 3.30pm. Lessssgoooo! 💪💙💛❤️

✨players of the day ✨

Huge shout out to the Reds player of the day- this week is Alison Wills-Olsen. Every week Ali shows her skill, speed and leadership on the field. She also has the awesome ability to be able to play one-handed which she also uses to consistently scoop the ball from the opposition. We love having Ali in our OBHC whānau ❤️

For the Blues we have our young super star forward Monique Hart. Mon is a firecracker with a wicked reverse shot and an infectious, positive vibe that she brings to every training and game. Mon created some beautiful leads in the match against the Wanderers and gassed her legs out up the front creating a heap of goal scoring ops in the 8-1 win. Mon brings so much fun and light to the team, we are so lucky to have her on field and off-field💙

CONGRATULATIONS to all our winning ticket numbers 🥳

The winners have now all been contacted and have chosen their prizes.

The club would like to extend a MASSIVE thank you to all those who supported the club and donated prizes and sold tickets and bought tickets. What an awesome team effort!

As a club, Omanu Beach want to provide a fun and inclusive environment for girls and women to be involved in hockey. We want to foster talent and work with THA to provide pathways for our players to progress and achieve their hockey dreams (whatever they may be!). Thanks to all the support you all have shown, we are able to continue this!

✨ the magic behind the scenes✨

It’s time you meet some of our incredible OBHC coaching and management crew! Proudly introducing the team behind our OBHC Senior Reds- say kia ora to Bevan Hari, Craig Carter (coaches) and Toni Bremner (manager).

Craig is a rugby and cricket man through and through however started coaching hockey to support his three daughters through primary, intermediate and college. Craig was involved in a coaching capacity with the Tauranga U16 Reps last year and now bringing his experience and guidance into the senior womens team.

Bevan is well know to Tauranga Hockey, often in his younger years playing rep and club hockey in Rotorua against Tauranga sides. His move north to Auckland was the catalyst to further travel and live in Australia & Europe, representing the New Zealand national team (200+ caps) at Olympic, Commonwealth and World Cup events. It’s great to have both Bev and Craig onboard, their approach and style is reinforcing the competitive and development-based environment our Club is seeking to achieve on and off the field.

Toni, mum of superstar goal-keeper Tayla Holton has been outstanding in the managers role, taking part in group trainings, always herding the field collecting the stray balls, supporting the girls through administration processes and being number one supporter in the dugouts. We love you all!

“A foggy Te Anau morning”
92cm x 61cm
Check out this awesome painting on canvas that local artist Maree McGarva has donated as one of our raffle prizes drawn TODAY!

Thank you Maree!

🌟🌟 1 DAY TO GO 🌟🌟

Our epic raffle will be drawn tomorrow SUNDAY 21 JULY!!
Thank you to all those who supported the club and bought a raffle ticket, the wait is almost over.

Winners drawn tomorriw and will then be contacted for their choice of prize.

➡️ to see the epic prize lineup to choose from. Have your favourites ready!

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Here are this weeks’ OBHC Players of the Day.

In a match full of standout performances these two ladies stood out for their respective teams.

Senior Red ❤️
Jess Howard is a consistent and reliable defender who expertly outlet the ball under huge pressure from an offensive press. Her calmness under pressure and leadership from the back made her the standout players for the reds this weekend!

Premier Blue 💙
After a scoreless first half Keeley Grantham was the injection of energy the Blues needed to get on the scoresheet. Keeley is always in the perfect spot on the field . Her pace and agility brought her team back to life just when they needed it.

The club is so grateful to have such awesome players out in the field giving 💯 every week!
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✨CLUB SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT ✨

OBHC would like to acknowledge Holland Beckett for their incredible support of the club, continuing from 2023 into 2024. Our training shirts are worn with pride to represent the values of both the club and the company. As part of the clubs ongoing success, we try to offer opportunities for club members to get involved and support in the community space through providing an environment where everyone is included and can give exercise a go. As part of this, last week we were lucky to have Zeö from InnerFight Endurance New Zealand take an open agility class for us alongside Ōtūmoetai Intermediate Boys A team, providing a fun and safe space for interactive and fun fitness for all!

Thanks Holland Beckett for your support for our season 💪💛

What a match! The energy between both teams was fierce out in the sunshine yesterday, nothing like a bit of inter-club competition 💪 congratulations to both teams for putting on an awesome performance for the spectators who commented on the extremely exciting and fast paced game 🔥 bring on another week!

A classic inter club showdown, let’s get it 🔥

⏰ 2pm
📍Tauranga Boys College

Check out the gorgeous POD for the Senior Reds this week. Manager Toni says- Our POD this week is Riley Ramshaw. This is for her ability to get the ball and consistently run away with it down the turf. Well done Riley 🙂 who THEN came and played an absolute ripper for the OBHC prem blue, where she tore up the sidelines, creating plenty of space and job scoring opportunities! Girls got pace!!!

Hats off to OBHC Premier Blue POD this week, our captain and leader of the midfield engine room Keeley Grantham.

Keeley leads by example and constantly gives 💯 for her teammates. Her work rate is second to none and is demonstrated by the amount of time on the ball she has and her role in ball distribution and creation of space for our forwards.
Her speed and agility is also welcomed back in defence where she can be relied on to help protect our goal.
Keeley, we appreciate your tenacity, fitness,skill and leadership!!

Remember if you’re cold at training bring the jacket out and wear as an inspiration for others (and a reminder of your greatness)!!


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🤩 PLAYERS OF THE DAY🤩

After grilling snags at our team BBQ for the morning on Saturday, she also comes away with the OBHC Senior Red POD. Manager Toni says Laura had a fantastic game as well as her constant jab tackling against the other team. Well done Laura ❤️

And it seemed only fitting that our latest departing player Jessie took home the POD for OBHC Prem Blue. Jess held the midfield like a champion on Saturday and we will miss her solid defence and incredible distribution across the field. Jess is off to the Paris Olympics with the Black Ferns Sevens and we couldn’t be more excited for her, all the best for you and the team Jess! 💙

🌭SAUSAGE SIZZLE 🌭

We had such an awesome day down at the Tauranga Hockey Association serving up all of the goods! Thank you to everyone who has showed support throughout the day, from purchasing a great, buying a raffle ticket, or simply stopping by for a chat. Such a lovely environment down at the associtiation, thank you so much to Tauranga Hockey for allowing us the space to get amongst the community vibe💛

Check out a snippet of the day, not featured: the emergency panic move due to the rain 😅🌧️

⚡️GAME DAY⚡️

Big day for our ladies tomorrow, after spending a whole day at the BBQ, both teams are on at 5pm to take on these respective sides 💪

Senior Red at 5pm on Moana ❤️
Prem Blue at 5pm on Whanga 💙

Get down for a snag, some baking and a raffle ticket then stick around for a drink and some evening games 🔥

💛FUNDRAISER THIS SATURDAY💛

The annual Omanu Beach Hockey Club fundraiser is this Saturday at Tauranga Hockey Centre – Blake Park, in support of developing our local players.

The Team will have the BBQ running and the Best Ever Homemade Baking from 8:30 thru to the afternoon. We are easy to find – we are located next to our OBHC Club Flag all day.
Club Raffle will also be on sale – seriously some of the best prizes seen this year kindly donated by our local business community!

See you there!! Keep an eye out for our flag 🤩

🤩 PLAYERS OF THE DAY🤩

This week we are shouting out to Emily Pennington from our OBHC Senior Red team. She was constantly going for the ball at all times, challenging the opposition as well as doing her best to try not and let them get it. Beautiful work Emily, how cute are the girls helping out with her photo❤️

OBHC Premier Blue has Taylah Carter for the POD this week. Taylah slotted in a beautiful goal, and set up some lovely attacks from the left-hand side on Saturday. Taylah is a calm force in her position and nothing gets in the way of her sweeps! Get it girl 💙

🌭 SAUSAGE SIZZLE THIS WEEKEND🌭

Don’t forget we have our OBHC Sausage Sizzle fundraiser BBQ THIS SATURDAY 22nd JUNE at the Tauranga Hockey Centre, Blake Park. From 8.30am the ladies will be serving up all the goods for your Saturday at the turf, from hot snags with all the works, delicious drinks, tasty baking treats as well as raffle tickets for our AMAZING raffle that’s coming up, trust us when we say you’ll be blown away by our raffle items 🤩

WHEN: Saturday June 22nd from 8.30am-4pm
WHERE: Tauranga Hockey Association (Blake Park Turfs)
WHAT: snags, drinks, baking, raffle tickets!
WHY: providing a platform for girls and women to keep involved in hockey, providing for player developments pathways, and engaging with our awesome community 🥰

SEE YOU THERE, cash and eftpos available 💰🤑