Avoca Hockey Club
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| Union | Hockey Ireland | ||
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| Full name | Avoca Hockey Club | ||
| Founded | 1895 | ||
| Ground | Newpark Comprehensive School Newtown Park Avenue Blackrock Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Ireland 53°17′20″N 6°10′19″W / 53.288844°N 6.171961°W | ||
| Website | avocahockeyclub.com | ||
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Avoca Hockey Club (Irish: Cumann Haca Abhóca) is a field hockey club based at Newpark Comprehensive School in Blackrock, Dublin. The club was originally founded in 1895 and a women's team was added in 1973. Avoca enters various men's and women's teams in junior, senior and veterans leagues and cup competitions affiliated to the Leinster Hockey Association. Avoca men have won both the Men's Irish Senior Cup and the Men's Irish Junior Cup.[1][2] Avoca Women won the Irish Hockey Trophy in 2022. The club has also represented Ireland in European competitions, finishing third in the 1993 EuroHockey Club Trophy.
Home grounds
The club has played at the Avoca School/Newpark Comprehensive School site since 1936. The club also shares an astroturf pitch with Dominican College Sion Hill and rents a pitch at Loreto College, Foxrock.[1][8]
Notable players
Men's internationals
When Ireland won the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, the squad included two former Avoca players, Jack Peterson and his brother Walter Peterson. Jack and Walter's four brothers – Cecil, Herbert, Nicholas and William – also played for Avoca and Ireland.[9]
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- R. F. Leitch (field hockey)
- D. Coulson (field hockey) Irish Captain
- Jonathan Cole (field hockey) Irish Captain
- David Richardson (field hockey)
- Simon Filgas (field hockey)
- Mark Cullen (field hockey)
- Johnny Watterson (field hockey)
- Peter Agnew (field hockey)
- Nigel Kingston (field hockey)
- Anton Scott (field hockey)
- Orla Bell (field hockey)
- Fion Breheny (field hockey)
- Carolyn Shankey (field hockey)
- Galahad Goulet (field hockey)
- Brian Long (field hockey)
- Liam Canning (indoor hockey)
- Colin Hade (field hockey)
- Peter Darley (field hockey)
- Robert Ryan (field hockey)
- Philip Shier (Indoor hockey)
- Jakim Berndsen (Indoor Hockey)