SPAR schoolgirls hockey challenge gets ball rolling
The tournament that began in 2011 has fast become a highlight fixture in the schoolgirls’ hockey calendar.
THE dates for this year’s SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge have been drawn up with the tournament travelling to 10 regions in KZN and beginning in the first week in March.
The tournament that began in 2011 has fast become a highlight fixture in the schoolgirls’ hockey calendar.
Close to 75 high school girls’ first teams will be taking to the various hockey fields around KZN.
The ten regionals will take place over three months early in the year, with a two-month break before the highly contested Grand Finals that will take place at St Mary’s DSG on the weekend of July 22 and 23.
The trophy has only three names engraved on it over the 10 years that it has been played: Durban Girls’ College, St Anne’s College and St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls.
Building momentum to the Grand Finals, the first regional tournament tips off with defending champions in the Durban North Regional, Our Lady of Fatima, welcoming teams on Saturday, March 11 at their ‘home turf’, the Riverside Sports Club.
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Thomas More College hosts the fierce and fiery Highway Regional on Sunday, March 12, at their grounds.
Kuswag Hoërskool opens up the April diary with the Durban South Regional that they will host at the 3 Schools Trust Astro in Glenwood on Saturday, April 15.
The following day – Sunday, April 16 – Durban Girls’ High School welcomes teams from the Durban Central Regional back to their home ground at the 3 Schools Trust Astro.
Heading up the road, teams around Hilton will converge at St Anne’s College for the Pietermaritzburg North Regional on Saturday, April 22. And in the final back-to-back weekend in 2023, the challenge heads down the South Coast to Creston College for the Sisonke and Ugu Regional on Sunday, April 23.
For spectators that are unable to get to the side of the pitch, the ten Regionals and the Grand Finals will be live-streamed by SuperSport Schools on their mobile app or website.
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