The South African Hockey Association have today announced Neville Rothman as the new head coach of the SA Under 21 Hockey Men, succeeding previous incumbent and now national coach, Garreth Ewing. The appointment will be for the period up to an including the 2021 FIH Junior Hockey World Cup.

Rothman is no stranger to the SA U21 setup having fulfilled the role of Assistant coach to Garreth Ewing in the previous years. Adding to his involvement in the school’s setup having been the head coach of the SA U18 side for the home series against Australia in 2014 and 2016, the latter a 3-0 series win for the hosts.

Rothman also took the U18 team to the Nanjing Youth Olympic games in 2014. That team playing Hockey 5s, featured a host of players who are currently with the men’s side in India including Bili Ntuli, Tyson Dlungwana and Tevin Kok. As the convenor of selectors for the SA Under 18 Boys, Rothman has knowledge of a host of talent that will undoubtedly be the future of South African Men’s Hockey,

“Having been involved at various age group structures, I am incredibly humbled to be given the opportunity to take the SA Under 21 Men to the Junior Hockey World Cup. There is so much young talent in this country that makes me incredibly excited for this role.” Shared Neville Rothman

Rothman is also a full-time hockey man as he is the director of hockey at Affies in Pretoria having made the move after 11 years at Paarl Roos Gymnasium. He also previously worked with Grey High School in Port Elizabeth.

The team will partake in the Premier Hockey League and the Senior IPT with the idea of developing the squad towards the African Qualifiers in 2020. Should the team be successful they will then head to the FIH Junior Hockey World Cup in 2021.

There will also be an expectation that the development of this players is important to guide them through this phase of their careers and assist them in making the step up to Senior International hockey.

SA Hockey wishes Neville success for his new role! 

NOTE: Applicants are to note that this is a volunteer position

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Application Submission Deadline – 18 March 2019

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The teenager Dayaan Cassiem has established himself as one of the most exciting youngsters in world hockey. Photo: Jan Kruger/Getty Images for FIH

The South African Hockey Association announces the South African under 21 Invitational Mens Squad to take part in this year’s Senior Men’s IPT in Pietermaritzburg at the beginning of August. This represents the next phase of the squad's development towards the next FIH Junior Hockey World Cup. In September 2017 a 34 man greater squad was announced and a host of these players were selected to represent the iWyze Golden Gate Gladiators at the 2017 Premier Hockey League, with the balance of the players being drafted into the other five PHL teams.

On the back of this, the U21 IPT and the recently completed Varsity Sports tournament, coach Garreth Ewing is excited about the pick of players he has at his disposal. “I am looking forward to working with this new U21 team at IPT. This is the latest phase in our selection process, taking into account performances at U21 IPT as well as PHL and the Varsity Sports Hockey. Playing against “men” is always a challenge for the youngsters but it gives us a great idea of who can compete at Junior World Cup level.”

Dayaan Cassiem and Andrew Hobson have senior national experience that will be vital in the young team. While Samkelo Mvimbi and Che February will both be looking to find the back of the net and bring goals similar to the belters they scored at Varsity Sports to IPT. Mark Chong was the player of the final when Tuks upset Maties at the same tournament and will be of paramount importance to the SA U21 Invitational Squad in Martizburg. It’s an exciting team that promises to play a high-intensity level of hockey and don’t be surprised if they snatch results in the final quarter, a hallmark of the SA U21 sides over the past few years!

Today we announce the South Africa under 21 Squads. Following the completion of the successful Under 21 IPT held in Potchefstroom, which was won by the Southern Gauteng Ladies and the Western Province Men.

The selected players will be gathered for selection and training camps, with an eye on both the Africa qualifying tournament for the Junior World Cup and of course the Premier Hockey League (PHL), which takes place in November this year. The Ladies selectors shared that they have selected players born between 1998 & 2000 as well as a few more experienced players with a keen eye on the importance of the PHL.

The Men’s under 21 Squad, which Garreth Ewing has been reappointed to coach after a successful Junior World Cup, features full Internationals Tyson Dlungwana, Rusten Abrahams and Dayaan Cassiem along with some of the most exciting talent ever seen in the country.

In the Ladies under 21 Squad under coach Rob van Ginkel there are a few players who played at the Junior Hockey World Cup last year included in the team, including the likes of Sandiswa Tabata, Kristen Paton, Ongi Mali and Sisipho Magwaza. While Cheree Greyvenstein, Kirsty Adams and Simone Gouws all got experience playing in the PHL last year.

SA U21 men's hockey team for Junior World Cup in Lucknow, India from December 8 to 18

The South African Hockey Association has released the names of the players who will represent the South Africa U21 national men’s team at FIH Junior World Cup 2016 from December 8 to 18 in Lucknow, India.

SA U21 men's head coach Garreth Ewing said that the announcement of the 18-player team is the culmination of a process that started at the Interprovincial Nationals U21 tournament at Greenfields AB Jackson Hockey Arena in Pietermaritzburg last April.

"It's been a thorough process and there was a lot of competition for final places but now for those 18 selected players, this is when the hard work really starts.

"The players will also be participating in the upcoming Premier  National League, which takes place in September this year."

Ewing said that he is happy with the balance in the team in terms of specialist skills and overall ability.

"I'm reasonably pleased that this group have had good exposure during the selection phase at both the senior SA Interprovincial Nationals tournament as well as the Junior World Cup Africa Qualifier Tournament that took place earlier this year.

"I'm looking forward to the next phase of preparation and rising to the challenge of raising the necessary funds for the JWC tournament."

SA U21 Junior World Cup men's team

      1.  Robert McKinley WP
2. Siya Nolutshungu KZN
3. Kyle Lion-Cachet SG
4. Courtney Hallé SG
5. Jayson Reed KZN
6. Tylo Remke KZN
7. Ryan Julius WP
8. Matthew De Sousa WP
9. Charles Bowren WP
10. Alex Stewart WP
11. Nduduzo Lembethe NG
12. Tyson Dlungwana SG
13. Khumo Mokale  NG
14. Ryan Crowe SG
15. Nqobile Ntuli KZN
16. Walter Pfaff WP
17. Tevin Kok NG
18. Amkelwe Letuka SG

Reserves:

            19. Steve McManus KZN
            20. Bjorn Sorensen WP

South Africa and Egypt men and South and Zimbabwe women qualify for Junior World Cups

While the best senior teams in the world are preparing for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the next generation of hockey stars will have their own moment in the spotlight at the end of the year when the Hockey Junior World Cups get under way.

Over the past few months a number of continental qualifiers have taken place which have decided who will compete at these Junior World Cups, the women's hosted in Santiago, Chile from 24 November to 4 December and the men's in India from 1-11 December. With several coveted places still to be won, the attention turned to Africa over the past few days, before the focus shifts on to the Pan-American region this week.

On the African continent, the men’s and women's Junior African Cup was held in Windhoek in Namibia between 18-28 March.

In the men's event, Egypt demonstrated once again why they are a nation that is on the rise when it comes to hockey. The north African side reversed an earlier 2-0 loss at the hands of South Africa in the pool matches to win 3-2 in am exciting final.

In that game, the Egyptian team rushed into a 2-0 lead with goals from Mohamed Ali and Ahmed Arafa in the 14th and 22nd minute. South Africa fought back with a goal from Nqobile Ntuli just after half time.

It was all South Africa for the next quarter and Ntuli struck again to even the scores. However, with five minutes left on the clock, Egypt once again seized the initiative and Mohamed Nasr was on hand to shoot home the winner from open play, giving Egypt their first gold medal in this event.

Zimbabwe beat Namibia 5-3 in the bronze medal match while South Africa's Ntuli and Egypt’s Ahmed Elganaini were top scorers with 14 goals a piece.

The women’s Junior African Cup was a clear-cut victory for South Africa. They beat Namibia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania in a round-robin format to emerge as the gold medal winners. Zimbabwe finished in second place to take the only other automatic qualification spot for the Junior World Cup in Chile.

South Africa's Marie Louw was top scorer with 14 goals, closely followed by Tarryn Glasby on 13. In all, the South Africa team scored 63 goals and conceded none.

Who will be representing the Pan American region will be decided through two events: the women’s event gets under way on Thursday 31 March in Trinidad and Tobago, while between May 20-28 the men are off to Toronto in Canada.

Eleven women’s teams will be competing at this year’s Junior Pan-Am Championship and with the Rio Olympics taking place on the continent just a few months later, there is bound to be increased interest in this event, especially with Hockey Junior World Cup places at stake.

The Junior Pan-Am Championships started in 1988 for the women and in that time, it has been an almost total Argentinian domination. The South American side has been beaten only once, by the USA in 2008.

Going into this year’s event, Argentina women will hope to continue winning ways. Their coach, Agustin Corradini said: “The young players who are selected at junior international level are already well on their way to being the ‘finished’ article. When they get selected for the national team, they have already been part of very good development programmes within their own clubs. We make sure that they have all the elements in place and then work with those qualities to make them even better – as a result our players have very good technical skills, they are perfectly physically trained, and they have a professional mindset.”

Canada’s coach is Steph Andrews and she makes no bones about Argentina’s ability. “Argentina, historically, have always been classy. Their ability to be creative and play with flair makes it hard for teams to match up against them and stop their flow. Any team that is going to beat Argentina will need to be good defensively and take their opportunities when it counts.”

However, Andrews also believes that Canada is catching up on their South American rivals at junior level. She pinpoints developing depth within the junior squad as being key to this. She said: “I believe we are establishing a good group under our senior team both at a junior national squad level and the development squads below that, all of which will aid in closing the gap between us and Argentina.”

The opening day’s matches of the women’s Junior Pan-Am Championship will see the reigning champions Argentina open their defence against Uruguay. Chile take on Barbados, Canada face Mexico and the 2008 winners USA will compete against the host nation Trinidad and Tobago.

The SA U21 men’s camp squad has been named.