| The Loddon Murray Hockey Club (LMHC) offers the unique opportunity to assist in developing both a Men’s and Women’s sport simultaneously. Hockey also offers participants a sport that is synonymous to a healthy lifestyle that fosters working in a team environment, and is recognised as an Olympic sport. As a club, we are keen to promote hockey as a chosen sport and need to make it an accessible choice for young athletes. The club is a volunteer organisation, Club fees are kept to a minimum to encourage involvement. We pride ourselves on our family friendly environment.
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Competition The Loddon Murray Hockey Club plays in the Central Victorian Hockey Association. Our player list includes around 70 seniors players. Our teams include Women’s and Men’s A and B grade teams. All have featured strongly in their divisions (two premiership flags and two runner up flags since 2003). Our B Men's team were premiers in the 2007 season. We consistantly have one, if not more, teams making the finals each season. We see a good number of our players make a number of representative sides. These being VicStix Squads, Centre State Teams, VPSSA Teams, Victorian Country Teams and Victorian State Teams. |
CVHA The Central Victorian Hockey Association (CVHA) competition runs from March through to September and is played at the Bendigo Hockey Centre at Garden Gully. There are 24 competing senior teams with around 450 senior players as well as 3 junior grades. Most participating clubs are based in Bendigo however Maryborough and Loddon Murray both travel to Bendigo each weekend.
History and Background
In 2003 the Kerang Junior Hockey Association and Swan Hill Hockey Association joined forces to provide three representative teams in the Central Victorian Hockey Association (CVHA) competition in Bendigo. They formed and took on the name, ‘Loddon Murray Hockey Club’ and indeed the players truly represent this region. Currently players come from Swan Hill, Kerang, Koondrook, Barham, Cohuna, Boort, Pyramid Hill, Ultima, Fernihurst, Birchip as well as expatriates living/studying/working in Bendigo. The LMHC are coordinated from and train at Kerang. We currently have around 70 registered players, and a large support group involved with the club. Training is currently undertaken on the Kerang Tennis Club hard courts every Tuesday night starting in early March through to the finals in September. |
