AKH U18 Men’s Teams 2022
A big thank you from Auckland Hockey to all trialists for your efforts.
Congratulations to players selected to represent Auckland at the Vantage National U18 Men’s Tournament in Palmerston North July 10th – 16th and in the Northern Region Tri-series matches leading to tournament.
Auckland Blue Team – National Tournament
1 | Max Ready (GK) | Somerville |
2 | Jayan Patel | Somerville |
3 | Jacob Pooley | Somerville |
4 | Archie Manning | Howick Pakuranga |
5 | Eamon OCarroll | Somerville |
6 | Tom Sullivan | Southern Districts |
7 | John Casey (GK) | Somerville |
8 | Devon Hari | Roskill Eden |
9 | Olivier Hillard | Roskill Eden |
10 | Matt Vaughan | Somerville |
11 | Scott Illerbrun | Kings College |
12 | Ethan Green | Howick Pakuranga |
13 | Hamish Aspinall | Somerville |
14 | Alex Smith | Southern Districts |
15 | Yash Khushal | Somerville |
16 | Reuben Ata | Howick Pakuranga |
17 | Leo Whiteside | Howick Pakuranga |
18 | Alex Thompson | Somerville |
All players selected are expect to attend the first team training Monday 6 th June at 6.00 pm at LEP. Please advise Rochi if you are injured or unwell and can’t attend.
There is no training on Monday 30th May due to catch up school and club matches.
Auckland Blue Management Team
Clive Daniels – Head Coach
Jignesh Keshoor – Assistant Coach
Finn O’Connor – Assistant Coach/Manager
Philly Irvine – Manager*
*two support managers TBC for Tournament.
Blue Team – Non – travelling reserves:
Zavier Lichtwark – Southern Districts
Leon Walter – Somerville
Non- Travelling Reserves are encouraged to attend all team trainings from Monday 6 th June.
If due to illness or COVID or injury we need to replace a named player, coaches will contact Non- Travelling Reserves directly either for build-up games or to attend tournament.
Auckland White Team
The Auckland White team will play Tri Series matches on the 12th June, 19th June and 3rd July – details TBC. A large team has been selected to cover withdrawals to both teams due to covid, injury, U16s, and the Counties Tournament opportunity.
1 | Zavier Lichtwark | Southern Districts |
2 | Tom Grant | Roskill Eden |
3 | Tom Lindberg | Somerville |
4 | Shakeel Kanji (GK) | AISC |
5 | Leon Walter | Somerville |
6 | Ben Wigmore | University |
7 | Akeel Patel | Somerville |
8 | Rahul Naicker | Western Districts |
9 | Japsimirit Singh | Howick Pakuranga |
10 | Ethan Williams | Howick Pakuranga |
11 | Dominic Foster | Western Districts |
12 | Hugo Waldegrave | AGS |
13 | Jack Green | Howick Pakuranga |
14 | Ollie Reid | Southern Districts |
15 | Jack Jury | Howick Pakuranga |
16 | Steven Mayerhofler | Southern Districts |
17 | Jaiman Bhana | AISC |
18 | Parth Visnagara | Roskill Eden |
19 | Dharmesh Baldania | Roskill Eden |
20 | Archie Elliot | Howick Pakuranga |
21 | Arjun Pancha | AISC |
22 | Harrison Stewart | Somerville |
23 | Anmolpreet Singh | Southern Districts |
24 | Luke Slark | Somerville |
Auckland White Management Team
Jignesh Keshoor – Head Coach
Manager TBC
Training sessions – start Monday 6th June at LEP6pm.
Feedback for all non-selected players will be available in the week of 13 June by contacting Rochi Gonzalez Canda in the first instance via reps@akhockey.org.nz
All non-selected players who are U16 at Jan 1st 2022 should attend the U16 trials at LEP on the morning of Sunday June 19th if not playing in a White team tri series match. The priority for any U16 players selected in the Blue team is U18 teams at present but they are able to make themselves available for the Grant McLeod Tournament in the October Holidays.
U16 Players in the White team should confirm their availability for the Waikato Quadrangular tournament in the second week of the July holidays and the Grant McLeod Tournament in the October Holidays with Rochi ASAP via reps@akhockey.org.nz