2023 WA Masters Hockey Women's O45Gold State Team

Masters next year will be June/July in New South Wales! So start planning your pre tournament prep now!!

UPDATE - 2024 MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
HA & HAMC have released an update in regard to timing of 2024 championships. Whilst there is still some work required to finalise, the timing will be June/July.

For more information, please see the update on our webpage blog - https://www.hockey.org.au/masters/masters-noticeboard/

Congratulations to all of our players who were selected in the Australian Masters teams for 2024.

45+ Australian Team
Johanna Muntz
Hayley Patton
Elizabeth Stratton
Dirranie Kirby (Shadow)

50+ Australian Team
Kellie Sadler

40+ Australia A
Terri Herbert

45+ Australia A Team
Isobel Bevis
Dirranie Kirby
Jodi Nield

50+ Australia A Team
Sinead French-Bluhm (shadow)

Best wishes for the tournaments next year and we look forward to hearing the results!

Congratulations to all of WA players who were selected. What an amazing achievement!

2024 WORLD CUP TEAMS ANNOUNCEMENT
Hockey Australia and Hockey Australia Masters Committee have pleasure in announcing selected Australian and Australia A Teams to represent Australia at the 2024 Masters World Cups in October in Cape Town, South Africa and in November in Auckland, New Zealand.

Australia will be sending a full contingent of 30 teams - 9 Australian Men's teams, 8 Australian Women's teams, 7 Australia A Men's teams and 6 Australia A Women's teams.

See our noticeboard - https://www.hockey.org.au/masters/masters-noticeboard/ for links to the Australian teams.

Congratulations to Terri Herbert for receiving the Myrna Bosio Over 45s Team Contribution Award for the WA Gold team!

Terry is an amazing teammate whose commitment and passion are inspiring!!

The award was donated in 2018 by 7 Life Members of South Perth/WASPS who were Myrna’s Team Mates at South Perth and who all represented WA in Masters Hockey.

CRITERIA FOR THE AWARD:
‘A tenacious team player with great determination to do her best for the team and state.
A sense of fair play on and off the field.’

Some background on Myrna Bosio:
*Myrna Joy Bosio was born on 2 May 1944 in Collie into the harness racing family - Kersley. She passed away August 2004 aged 60 years.
*Myrna started her hockey career in Collie, showing promise at a young age.
She played country week hockey for Collie.
Myrna came to Perth in the early 1970’s, and, played for Surf Hockey Club (now YMCC).
*Myrna moved to South Perth (now WASPS) in the late 1970s.
*She was an inaugural player in the South Perth Masters’ Women’s hockey team.
*Myrna was a Bursar at Santa Maria College 1985 - 2004, during this time she coached the school’s hockey teams.
*Myrna went away with the first WA Masters’ Hockey team in 1985 to Melbourne as Captain/ Coach of this augural Australian hockey competition. She won the 150th Melbourne Celebration Medal for the overall best player at these Championships.
*Myrna was a player in WA Masters’ state sides 1994, 1993, 1992, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985 holding many leadership positions in these teams.
In 1992 and 1991 Myrna was coach of the WA Masters’ Hockey teams.

Congratulations to the WA Women’s Masters teams! We took home medals in all of our age groups and both of our Black teams performed well!

Bronze Medallists!
We went out hard, determined to show the Queenslanders who was in charge.
We acored in the 39th minute and defended hard. Queensland pulled their keeper in the final quarter to boost their attack. We kept our supporters guessing when Queensland earned a penalty corner in the final minute of the game and converted to send us to wobble offs.
Nerves of steel were shown by our goal keeping captain Dirranie Kirby to deny Queensland during the initial 5 wobbles. At the completion of 5 we were still a draw at 2-2.
It came down to the second sudden death wobble and Jo Muntz put the thing in the thing to secure BRONZE for the WA 45 Gold team!!

Score: 3-2 (1-1 full time)
Goals: Muntz (2) French-Bluhm (1)
Cards: Sadler (green) Potter-Verburg (green) Bevis (green)

Congratulations to our sister team 2023 WA Masters Hockey Women's O45Black State Team who last night beat the ACT 2-1 in their classification match to claim fifth position. Great result and great game!

A summary of the schedule for the WA teams and their classification/medal matches.
(Not sure who created this so I cannot give credit but thank you for pulling it together!!)

This is it! Game day tomorrow as we play off for bronze against Queensland. Please come and cheer us 3.45pm at PHS Turf 2.
Alternatively you can refresh the official
game score sheet during the match to track our progress https://hockeyaustralia.altiusrt.com/matches/9203

Hard fought game today against Victoria. We had many scoring opportunities but unfortunately were unable to get the thing in the thing. Victoria got two goals in two minutes in the final quarter and we were unable to get on the board.
Well played team. We kept fighting until
then end and never stopped believing in ourselves. ✅🙂

Look out for us tomorrow as we play off for Bronze 3.45pm PHS2.

Score: 0-2
Goals:
Cards:

Refer to article below, live streaming of the Hockey Australia Masters Championships will no longer be available from tomorrow!

Hockey Australia statement regarding Cluch TV LIVE streaming Hockey Australia has been informed that Cluch TV, the company responsible for the production and live streaming of hockey on LIVEHockey.com.au, has gone into administration.

We play a semi final tomorrow morning against Victoria for a place in the gold medal match! Please come and cheer us 8.30am at PHS1.
Alternatively you can refresh the official
game score sheet during the match to track our progress https://hockeyaustralia.altiusrt.com/matches/9200

Rest day today included beach sprints and lunch overlooking the ocean. Ahhh bliss!

Out and about after our game yesterday! We had the WA “virgin” dresses yesterday and some lovely shots of our fresh new WA Masters players.
We took in lunch, the championship Welcoming Ceremony, dinner, and the 2023 WA Masters Hockey Women's O40 State Team quarter final against Queensland Gold.

Post match recovery. We love our ice baths!!

Fifth and final round game today against Queensland and we were keen to atone for our loss yesterday. Again, unfortunately it was not to be. Queensland put an early goal away and we were on the back foot for the rest of the game.
Today was a game when our players put their bodies on the line. Lots of heart shown and we kept running to the end of the game.

Score: 0-4
Goals:
Cards: Patton (green), MacDonald (green)

Post match ice baths and catching up with old friends!

Game four today against Victoria and unfortunately the result didn’t go the way we wanted. Lots of heart shown by the WA O45 Gold team! We ran and chased and attacked but were unable to convert our opportunities.
Great fight from both teams!

Score: 0-3
Goals:
Cards: MacDonald (green)

Our social team put together these fabulous goodie bags for all players, coach and manager. Items include:
- personalised keyring, personalised sweat towel and personalised wet bag - thabks to one talented teammate and the talented MIL of another teammate
- hand blended essential oils
- QV ego packs from Wizard Pharmacy with hand sanitizer, lip balm, skin lotion and hand cream all in a handy bag!
- Elastoplast bag and bandaids from Wizard Pharmacy (Claremont)
- magnesium lotion from Wizard Pharmacy (Claremont)
- Rehydration sachets and bottled water

Yesterday the team swapped their hockey sticks for golf putters and played 18 holes of mini golf at the Point Walter Golf Course. Great fun was had as we honed our putting skills and attempted to import hockey skills into the game with mixed success. What larks!

Our third game today was against ACT.
We started with the intent to play our game and dictate the pace and outcome. We were able to move the ball around the field and did our best to “get the thing in the thing”.
Seven goals were scored by seven different players - fantastic team work!

Unfortunately I don’t have any game photos to include as yet - anyone who was watching and has photos they would be happy for us to use please message me!

Score: 7-0
Goals: Stratton, French-Bluhm, Bevis, Potter-Verburg, Versace, Parker, Muntz
Cards: Stratton (green)

An early start this morning meant we had time
for recovery and a debrief before heading to PHS1 to support the WA O34 Gold team. Great work 2023 WA Masters Hockey Women's O34Gold State Team and congratulations on your 3-1 win over NSW!!

Game two saw us face off against NSW. The game started and it was fast and furious pace! Lots of back and forth, two strokes, green cards and heart.
WA scored first but unfortunately we were not able to hold onto lead. NSW equalised then scored twice to edge ahead and we played catch up the final quarter. We clawed one back but ran out of time to even the scores.
It was a great game to watch and play and we are looking forward to the next challenge.

Score: 2-3
Goals: Muntz, Carmody
Cards: Potter-Verburg (green)

Don’t say that we ignore the big questions…. who is the shortest member of the WA O45 Gold team?? Here we are lined up in height order!!

First game today and we are on the scoreboard! A rather warm hit out this morning against WA Black. We came out looking to consolidate on our training and scratch matches!
So great to step on field as a team and fantasic to be out there playing our WA counterparts.
Final score 5-0 to WA Gold.
Goals: Parker, Versace, Potter-Verburg, French-Bluhm, Herbert
No cards.

Team briefing, shirt presentations and fines meeting all rolled into one.
That’s how we roll… multitasking at its finest!

One last post training meal… !
All smiles and ready to take on the rest of Australia tomorrow!!

This morning we had our last training session before our tournament begins in earnest tomorrow!
Bring it on!