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Ibiza night – next Saturday! Open to all Hampton sports club members. £5 ticket from the bar if bought in advance. Special guest star DJ! Win Vodka! Special offers on shots!

Us Hampton-ers have always been charitable folk, and two of us are getting up to fundraising activities for some causes close to our hearts. First up, Lois Burton took part today in the Birmingham Bikeathon, cycling 52 miles to support Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. Lois survived the ordeal (she’s not the world’s biggest cycling fan…) and would be grateful if you could help her celebrate by donating at https://leukaemialymphomaresearch.org.uk/people/birmingham-bikeathon-2015-24 And second, 14-year-old Eleanor Gotrel, daughter Read more…

Congratulations to our talented juniors who have been selected for JRPCs. Well done to the following who have been picked for Midlands Junior Regional Performance Centres: – Iwan Doherty, U18 – Gin Kinahan, Taylor Rogers, U17 – Julian Wreford, Barney Dowson, George Bayliss, U17 – Luke Wood Edens, U16 As well as this, Adam Wade and Abi Forsythe have been invited to attend Midlands training sessions (there are no JRPCs in their age groups). Well Read more…

Our juniors celebrated another great season with a party, featuring special guest star, Olympian Sally Walton, a magician, quizzes and a crazy raffle! Led by head coach Jon, and party planner extraordinaire Clive, our juniors and their family and friends partied at Stonebridge Manor. They were joined by Olympian, and former Hampton junior Sally Walton who gave an inspirational talk reminding everyone to never stop learning or practising (and to say thank you to your Read more…

On Sunday our men are taking on the West Derby Hockey 4 Heroes squad. The squad are holding a training weekend at Old Sils as they prepare for a big fundraising adventure in May which will see them play 33 matches and take on the 3 peaks challenge all in the space of 10 days. Our men are playing at 2.30 at Sils if anyone wants to watch. https://www.facebook.com/H4H2015 http://www.bmycharity.com/H4H2015

More Hampton congratulations are due, this time to Iwan Doherty who this week has represented Wales u18s. In his most recent match, just today, he beat Scotland 3-2. Well done Iwan!

The sports club is supporting a 24 hour charity gym bike ride in aid of the Cameron Grant memorial fund. The ride will take place at The Hampton health and fitness club, where there will be 19 gym bikes available from 12 noon on 15th May till 12 noon on 16th May. Now we’re looking for people to ride these bikes! You don’t even have to pedal for 24 hours, just one hour of your time Read more…

More congratulations are due to ladies’ team members for Midlands and England selections. Ladies’ 1st team midfielder Kat Vaughan has been selected to play for Midlands over 40s. And second team captain Jean Scott Miller collected more England caps recently, when she captained the national over 60s side in a European tournament. Jean’s team won the tournament in Lille, beating the Netherlands, the French and a Europa team.      

Huge Hampton cheers for Sarah Pettigrew who has been selected for Midlands Over40s hockey! Sarah, who is our second team goalkeeper, only became a regular hockey player again this season. She got into playing again through our Back to Hockey scheme after having not played for twenty years! Sarah will be playing for the Midlands in June and we wish her all the best. We know she’ll be ace!

A valiant effort by our U12 boys at the Warwickshire finals saw them come in fourth place in the county championships. Well done to the boys for reaching the finals, and you to all their family and friends for the support.