Today, the Steelers announced that they had taken the Rotherham Renegades ball hockey team into the Steelers family. Well, we don't like to be left behind. I'd like to personally welcome the Steelers BHC into the Frozen Steel Family. Here, team members/organisers Joe Hattersley and Tom Merriman give us an introduction to the team and the sport.
The Sheffield Steelers B.H.C are a newly established Ball Hockey team, previously known as the Rotherham Renegades. As the Renegades, the club enjoyed great success in its first 12 months operating, even securing the Tier 2 national title in May of this year.
Moving the club forward, an exciting opportunity presented itself to become the Sheffield Steelers Ball Hockey team. Assistant Captain Dan Blair brought about this exciting venture, through sponsorship of the Steelers Ice Hockey team with Constellation Lighting.
The aim of the club moving forward is to enter multiple teams into tournaments and league competition and introduce a junior system as Ball Hockey grows in the UK and the South Yorkshire area. This will allow the club to grow and expand the brand of the Sheffield Steelers in not just the local community, but further afield as our teams enter national competitions.
Ball Hockey in the UK is governed by Ball Hockey UK (BHUK) and is played on a national level with teams competing from across the UK in such areas as London/Cardiff and Newcastle. The Renegades currently compete in the BHUK Central Conference with teams from Nottingham and Sheffield. As well as the league format, teams compete in national, qualifying tournaments throughout the season, culminating in the national finals, which are held at the Queens Road rink, Sheffield in the spring of each year.
So what is Ball Hockey?
Ball hockey is essentially Ice Hockey without the ice. The rules are very similar and it’s played out of dedicated rinks like Simply Skate Arena, or normal sports halls. Ball Hockey is also popular across the globe, in places such as mainland Europe and the United States/Canada.
The Steelers Ball Hockey team will continue to train and play out of Simply Skate Arena in Rotherham. We currently train on a weekly basis, every Thursday night, 9.00 – 10.30pm. The current price of a training session is £5, with the first session free of charge. The main advantages to Ball Hockey is that it’s more accessible, as all you need to start is a stick which cuts down on an obvious expense when looking to start/try a new sport.
If Ball Hockey sounds like something you’d like to get into then please get in touch via…
E-Mail: sheffieldsteelersBHC@gmail.com
Website: www.steelersbhc.wordpress.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SheffieldSteelersBHC
Twitter: twitter.com/SteelersBHC
The Steelers Ball Hockey team have a hectic fixture list over the coming months with a local derby this Saturday. Steelers BHC face the Sheffield Knights at home in Cup action, face-off at 4.30pm. If you’d like to come down and see the team in action and see what Ball Hockey is all about, then entry is free and everyone is welcome.
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