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Primary school hockey players enjoyed a coaching session from American U19 hockey player Sammy Popper at the Hibiscus Hockey Trust’s Metro Park East hockey turf on May 30.
Sammy was in the country for 18 days on a hockey scholarship and came to the fields in Millwater to work with Trust chair Merv Huxford at the request of US Field Hockey.
As well as coaching local school teams, Sammy also played premier games for East Coast Bays and took part in some specialised training with ex-Blackstick James Coughlan at North Harbour Hockey.
Twenty-two teams are in the Year 1-6 competition run by the Hibiscus Hockey Trust, which sees around 154 children take to the Metro Park fields on Thursday evenings.
Pictured, from left, Logan Fox, Blake Harrison, Coby Gordon, Sammy Popper (coach) and Harry Russell.
