CLUB HOCKEY I asked good friend and team mate Katie Burns what club hockey means to her. READ MORE
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Dealing with injuries – Hockeyroos Ash Nelson & Marnie Hudson
Ash Nelson talks about how she is managing her current injury READ MORE
Skills Session 11: Goalkeeper speed work
Two attributes that are very important for all goalkeepers are speed and agility. READ MORE
How to do a gym workout on holidays
As a travelling athlete I often find myself having to be creative in order to complete my gym workouts or rehab exercises whilst away. READ MORE
Nutrition tips – Diet of an Elite Athlete
FRESH IS BEST Food plays a big part of my everyday life. I love shopping for it, I love preparing it and most of all I love eating it. Being an elite athlete I have a high energy requirement but also need a wide variety of different foods to keep my body in good shape. READ MORE
Coaching Clinic Greensborough Hockey Club part 2
Another trip to Melbourne and another opportunity to hang out with some of Greensborough’s finest junior goalkeepers. READ MORE
Eltham College – Michael Van Nugteren Cup 2011
My high school, Eltham College, holds an annual hockey event in honour of a wonderful coach who looked after the school hockey program but passed away some time ago from cancer. READ MORE
Kate Hollywood’s season in Holland
Playing hockey for Dames 1 in the Hoofdklasse is something that I have always wanted to do. READ MORE
WA Junior GK Camp
Things are certainly on the up for Goalkeepers in Australia with the introduction of regular goalkeeping camps. READ MORE
Tour update – Olympic Qualifier Hobart
Sorry I have been very slack in updating you all on our tour of Hobart. We arrived here last Sunday after our training camp in Melbourne and have been madly training in preparation for our three match series against our arch rivals New Zealand. READ MORE
Goalkeeping and the off season
With the winter hockey season now over I am sure many of you are starting to wonder what to do for the next few months until pre season starts. READ MORE
Tour Update – Melbourne Camp
After nine wonderful days in Melbourne it is time for the Hockeyroos to leave for Hobart. READ MORE
Tour Update: Melbourne Camp – Hanging with Layne Beachley
Hockeyroos are in Melbourne. Finally! For the next week a squad of 36 athletes are training and playing in Melbourne in preparation for the Olympic Qualifier tournament in Hobart. READ MORE
I am an OBO keeper
Many people ask me for recommendations on gear so I thought I would put up a post with all the equipment I use. READ MORE
Road to London
Hey guys Would you believe that at the time of this report there is 314 days 3 hours, 24 minutes and 38 seconds until the Olympics! It may sound like a long time but I tell you what, this year is flying and I know next year will too. READ MORE
Tour update: Perth training camp part 2
Game 3 down and team Gold are sitting on one win, one loss and one draw. READ MORE
Open Forum
Hi There I hope you are all enjoying my new site. It has been up and running for nearly two months now so I thought I would take the chance to get some feedback and hopefully lots of questions from you, the readers. READ MORE
Skills Session 6: Learning to Dive
We have been over a few of the basics but now its time for the fun stuff and this time its Diving. This is not a difficult skill to learn but does require some guts and determination to practice as if you get it wrong, it can hurt a little! READ MORE
Skills session 5: Go for everything!!
Hey guys, welcome to my fifth skills session. I hope you are finding them useful. This session is really about your attitude to goal keeping more than anything else. It is a piece of advice that, if followed, will improve your goal keeping out of sight. Very simply – ‘Go for everything!’ This means in READ MORE
Commonwealth Games Highlight
I have some very fond memories from the 2010 Commonwealth Games and this video is certainly one of them. READ MORE
My Favourite Places: Margaret River, WA
As privileged as we are to travel the world and compete it is very rare that we get the opportunity to go away on an actual holiday. Last weekend I had a friend over from Melbourne so we took the chance to go away for the 36 hours I had off training over the weekend. READ MORE