We are now half-way through the Women’s season and the Hornets are top of the ladder, with a 100% win ratio, followed by Rustlers, Rams and Scorchers. It should be an exciting finish to see who ends up in the final top 4 of the Women’s A grade competition.
This year’s winning NAIDOC Poster ‘Urapun Muy’ will be displayed at the Maitland Hockey Centre on Saturday 6th July and throughout the following NAIDOC Week aswe take this opportunity to recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to hockey in Maitland and the Hunter as well as in our wider Community.
As a bit of background, the National NAIDOC Week Poster Competition has been running since 1967 and each year encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists aged 16 years and over to submit their artwork reflecting that year’s theme. This year’s poster, by Samuawgadhalgal artist Deb Belyea, is entitled ‘Urapun Muy’ (from the Kalaw Kawaw Ya dialect of the Top Western Islands of the Torres Strait) and means ‘One Fire’.
Reflecting this year’s theme, ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud’,itrepresents the shared fire of passion for the oldest living culture in the world and the sharing of cultural knowledge from one generation to the next.
We are very pleased to announce that MHI has received a Glencore Junior Sports Grant to hold a 2-day Hockey 5’s carnival!
Planned for preseason 2025, this will be a key event to promote and grow our junior competition by kicking off with a fun way to further develop those core skills.
Stay tuned for further updates as we now start the planning!
National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
With 5% of our members identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Maitland Hockey Inc is very pleased to once again take this opportunity to recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to hockey in Maitland and the Hunter as well as in our wider Community.
We will acknowledge and pay our respects on Saturday 6th July to the Aboriginal Peoples who have been in the areas around our hockey centre for more than 60,000 years, including the Wonnarua, Awabakal, Darkinjung, Worimi and Geawegal Peoples, as the traditional custodians of these lands.
We’ll share more posts about NAIDOC Week in the coming weeks. In the meantime further information can be found at: https://www.naidoc.org.au/