Living Hockey coaches all share the LH values of learning whilst having fun. Living Hockey is about providing quality and every coach brings with them a unique way of helping players whilst they are on a camp. Each coach uses their area of expertise to add value to the learning process of every player.
The LH coaching team, consisting of World/Olympic/European champions, record capped players, Olympic captains, world class players, international coaches, coaching directors, heads of hockey, academy coaches, are always striving to provide a service that cannot be matched anywhere else.
Our incredible, international calibre, regular coaches…
Brett Garrard
Still England and GB’s most capped player, Brett retired in 2008 after the Champions Trophy and has been relaxing in club hockey ever since. Right throughout his career and since he was a teenager, Brett has run junior coaching camps at clubs, schools and universities throughout the UK, Europe the US. Click here to read more.
Todd Williams
With a father who played for Australia and who was also a top level coach and umpire, hockey has been part of Todd’s life since the day he arrived on the planet in Hobart, Tasmania. Well before Ricky Ponting made the state fashionable for sportsmen, Todd defied the odds and won a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport, eventually playing 30 odd tests for Australia…
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Taeke Taekema
Some people, as they say, need no introduction. Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, you’ll know who that Taeke is a Dutch legend with about as many caps for Holland as he has goals (i.e. hundreds). If drag flicking at 120 kmh or throwing overheads 80 metres is on your “To Do” list then this is the guy to meet. Click here to read more.
James Tindall
James Tindall is now regarded as one of the world’s deadliest finishers and is without doubt one of the hardest hitters of the hockey ball you will ever see. In fact, rumour has it that he hit one so hard off a goalkeeper’s helmet last year at Surbiton training that the keeper now plays lawn bowls in a crash helmet…
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Matt Daly
Matt Daly is one of the nicest guys you’ll meet. That however is not much consolation if you’re an opposition defender putting up with him running past you without him seeming to need to get out of first gear or if you’re a keeper and he smashes one past you from the top or by ripping a corner.
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Richard “Ratman” Alexander
Fit, fast and ferocious, Richard Alexander is now one of England and GB’s most effective and consistent players. With an insatiable work ethic, “Ratman” is an opposition player’s worst nightmare as if he’s playing against you, he will be all over you quicker than budget airlines hit you with mystery taxes.
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Our other incredible coaches…
Adele Brown
Adele can only be described as one of the best girls’ hockey coaches in the country, winning numerous national titles with players of all ages. She is currently Assistant Director of Sport at Wellington College, having previously worked at Kingston Grammar and has already started making an impact with sport at the school. Click here to read more.
Andrew Smith
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that Andrew Smith is one of the nicest most popular blokes you’ll ever meet. Unless they are from Queensland where the view isn’t might not be quite so positive as Smithy was a prominent member of the underdog Western Australian team… Click here to read more.
Andy Cornick
Andy “Sparrow” Cornick is just the ideal Living Hockey coach. Not only is he a quality midfielder/striker who is scoring more and more regularly for Wales (see his goal against China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojwFctToRQ4&feature=channel) but he is also in charge of the Hockey program at Trinity School in Croydon. Click here to read more.
Barry Middleton
Barry is captain of both the England and Great Britain men’s teams. He was a member of the Great Britain squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and fifth in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the England Squad that won the 2009 Eurohockey Nations Cup, and gained silver at the 2010 Champions Trophy. Click here to read more.
Ben Edwards
Ben is one of the nicest guys you will meet in hockey. He is currently Assistant Director of Sport at Reeds School and responsible for the Mens Performance players within Surbiton Hockey Club. Ben still plays and any youngster could still learn a thing or two watching his movement in the circle and his goalscoring techniques. Click here to read more.
Chris Grassick
From Scotland, Chris is a member of the GB training squad for 2012. He has 35 caps playing for Scotland and represented Scotland at U16, U18 and U21 level. He started his playing career with Inverleith HC, and now plays for Surbiton HC’s 1st X1 in the England Hockey Premier League.
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Dan Fox
Dan Fox is an England and Great Britain Hockey player who is currently captain of Hampstead and Westminster Hockey Club. Having played at the 2010 World Cup and won a silver medal at the Champions Trophy later that year he is a consistent and tenacious defender. Click here to read more.
Jimmy Wallis
According to Brett, “Jimmy” Wallis is one of THE most annoying hockey players who just makes the game look so easy it’s not funny. Brett would know too as Jimmy racked up his 200+ international matches for England and GB in the same team. Just to make him even more frustrating, he’s also a scratch golfer… Click here here to read more.
Jon Royce
Our coaching staff all bring with them an impressive coaching pedigree and experience; none more so than Jon Royce. He coached the Great Britain Men’s U21 at the 4th Junior World Cup in 1997 before going on to lead the Women’s team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Click here to read more.
Karl Stagno
Dr Karl Stagno (a PhD in Exercise Science) is a former international player for Gibraltar who has lived in England since 1997 and played and coached in the National League ever since. He now coaches Surbiton HC in the Premier League and is Director of Hockey at Whitgift School…
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Mark Atherton
Mark has been a member of the Living Hockey team for the past couple of years. Having spent six years playing for and then working at the University of Birmingham, he returned to the South East in 2001 where he has been coaching at all levels since. He is currently the Ladies Performance Manager and Director of the Junior Academy at Surbiton HC… Click here to read more.
Mick McCann
Many people will know that Mick McCann is one of the Olympic Gold Medal winning Australian team from the Athens in 2004. Since then he has played in Spain and most recently Germany where he is coaching Mannheimer HC in the Bundesleague and also Assistant Coach to the German U21 team.
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Phil Carr
2011 was a very successful year for Philip Carr, after completing his degree at Loughborough University, he found himself called up to Scotland Senior line up. Competing in the four nations, Celtic cup and the Champions Challenge II, left Carr with taste for senior international hockey…
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Will Fulker
Will spent time playing for Burnside Hockey Club in the South Australian Premier League and then Ipswich HC where he became 1st XI Captain at the age of 19. After two seasons in the National League Division 2 for Ipswich he moved to Surbiton and is about to enter his fifth season of Premier League Hockey with the Club. Click here to read more.
Based overseas, but our other incredible coaches (whenever we can get them on a flight); the rest of the Living Hockey Family…
Adam Commens
An Australian Olympian, with a Bronze Medal from the Sydney Games, “Billy” has more recently led the rise of Belgium up the World Rankings which began when, in only his first tournament as Head Coach, he qualified them for the Beijing Olympics by surprising the world and edging the Germans at the European Cup in 2007. Click here to read more.
Anthony Potter
Anthony Charles Potter (if you are talking to him formally) or “Potts” (if you are on a hockey field), is one of the highly sought after strikers that have been through the world renowned Australian institute of Sport Hockey Unit. An expert in goalshooting and striker development, Potts moved to Holland in 1999… Click here to read more.
Colin Batch
Anyone lucky enough to have played with or against Colin Batch would invariably describe him as unbelieveably good and just one of the nicest guys you’d ever meet on the pitch. Not surprisingly then, since becoming a coach, Batchy has been unbelievably successful and moved ever so slightly to be one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet on the sideline. Click here to read more.
Lucas Judge
OK, so here’s a trick question for you. How do you have your first taste of international hockey by playing for Australia A and then play your first full test match for Holland? The answer? By having an Australian father and Dutch mother of course – oh and plenty of hockey ability helps as well!
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Luke Doerner
Not only is Luke a member of the World Cup winning Australian Team but as the tournament’s joint top scorer with Taeke Taekema and with his all important winner in the final, there’s no doubt that he’s one of the best drag flickers on the planet. Click here to read more.
Michelle Mitchell
Michelle Mitchell is without doubt a legend. That’s not just for the fact that she’s an Olympic Gold Medal winner but also because her goalshooting drills, which only people at Living Hockey camps and Teddington HC have really been able to benefit from, are just so good it’s not funny.
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Robbie Hammond
Now, if winning things was a bad habit, then Robbie would need to have a good, hard look at himself and probably seek professional help. Olympic Gold has now been added to with a World Cup Winners medal and that’s alongside plenty of Champions Trophies and however many AHL titles…
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Our incredible goalkeeper coaches
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