Camberwell Hockey Podcast

Last week the club celebrated Women and Girls round. Following our premier league match against Hawthorn, head coach David Wansbrough gathered his five international players onto a panel for a fun discussion about their hockey journey.

This episode is a live recording of the panel discussion. Participating are our home grown Hockeyroos stars Laura Barden, Sophie Taylor & Krissie Bates; and our fantastic guest players Belgium Red Panther Joanne Peeters and The Cherry Blossoms Hazuki Yuda from Japan.

This week Wansey and Ando return to host. David Wansbrough of-course is an Olympic champion himself and is currently transforming our women's premier league group as head coach.

Lachlan Anderson heads up high performance for Hockey Victoria and is head coach of our men's premier league group, currently playing great hockey and sitting at the top of the Victorian premier league.

We're super excited that the guys are presenting, fresh from Tokyo; Kookaburras assistant coach Anthony Potter and Hockeyroos assistant coach Katie Allen.

Pottsie is a past camberwell state league player. Plying his trade in the Don Argus era. You can hear more from Pottsie with Colin Batch in series 1 episode 8. KA is a Commonwealth, World Cup and Olympic gold medalist and member of the Australian Women's Team of the Century. She was, I believe, the first female head coach of a Victorian men's premier league team; winning a premiership in her first year. You can hear more from KA in series 1 episode 12.

Listening to hear all about the Olympic campaign with our two great coaches giving insight into everything including preparation, selections, opposition analysis, shootouts and the village vibe.

There's no chapter markers in this episode because it's so good, just play it through.

At our club or workplace, we all want everyone to feel welcome. To feel included, valued, respected and safe.

Unfortunately, this may not always be a given.

In this episode of the Camberwell Hockey Podcast, you’ll meet members of our Pride Committee and hear about what they’re doing with the club and wider associations to raise awareness and education to make it so.

Tom Winter returns to host CHC Pride Committee chair Stacy Clarke and members Julie Patterson & Sam Daily. You’ll learn about inclusion, the committee’s goals, The Pride Cup and understand how some simple thought about the pronouns used to address a person can be so welcomed and so important.

You can reach the Pride committee on email [email protected]

Sporting clubs around Australia have been wearing blue socks in support of Men's Health week with special events to promote the health and wellbeing of men and boys.

In this timely & pertinent first episode of season 2, Tim "Frosty" Everist joins the hosting crew to present Matt DeFina and Camberwell junior player Jack Brant.

Matt is a former Camberwell player, a state representative and current premier league goalkeeper with Powerhouse St. Kilda hockey club. https://phskhockey.org.au

Professionally Matt is a registered Psychologist working a Head of Programs at the Man Cave, which delivers programs empowering boys to become great men. You can contact Matt, and find out more about the Man Cave programs at https://themancave.life or on twitter @themancave_aus

Please visit menshealthweek.org.au for more information on Men's Health Week.

If you or anyone you know needs help or someone to talk to, please reach out to any of the following services:

Lifeline on 13 11 14

Mens Line Australia 1300 78 99 78

Dads in Distress 1300 853 437

The hockey club also has a number of members accredited with the Mental Health First Aid Australia program. Check out https://camberwell.hockey/wellness for more information.

Episode 30 - Phil Merriman
Hamish Ridland presents Phil Merriam, who joined Camberwell in Minkey and played through the ranks to State League 1. Phil then moved into coaching with stints at TEM, Powerhouse and Footscray before moving to the AFL industry working in High Performance with Hawthorn Football Club and is currently head of Strength & Conditioning at Melbourne Football Club.

You'll hear how Phil got into hockey and played a role linking our generational players in the early 2000's. You'll hear the guys' memories of Jesse Foster and learn about Phil's instrumental role in establishing the Jesse Foster Cup which is played each year between TEM and Camberwell to highlight Men's Mental Health.

Listen to learn about how Phil moved into AFL strength and conditioning, working at Hawthorn and Melbourne football clubs and discover some great insight on hockey training and recovery.

Season Break

This is episode 30 which is the last in series one. We'll be taking a break over the summer period but will be continuing to record and produce content, and will be back with series 2 in the New Year.

Thank you to all our guests, hosts and listeners over season 1 and thanks to the backroom comms team including Sara, Britt & HP for all the work over the year.

In this episode we'll look at what's next for our top aged juniors as they transition into seniors. We'll canvas common questions and concerns from players and families on issues including communication, selection and player safety; and we'll meet a couple recently graduated players to hear about their experiences of the program and playing senior hockey.

Men's and Women's coordinators Tim Oldham and Pip Mann will detail the transition programs and pre-season arrangements. We'll hear from five recently graduated players on topics including differences playing senior hockey, balancing school commitments and getting involved in other areas of the club.

You'll hear how the senior sections manage player communications and how team placements and weekly selections are managed.

In the final section we presenting the audio from the junior section awards which were held on zoom last month. You'll first hear an introduction from club president Simon Winter before Junior Chair Steve Laussen announces the awards.

If you have any questions please contact the coordinators or section chairs at any time.

Tim Oldham
Men's Transition Coordinator
[email protected]
0403 446 665

Pip Mann
Women's Transition Coordinator
[email protected]
0407 565 908

Steve Prior
Mens Section Chair
[email protected]
0414 514 954

Sara Conyers
Womens Section Chair
[email protected]
0438 096 105

Steve Laussen
Juniors Section Chair
[email protected]
0402 894 294

Liv Bell joins our hosting crew to present Women's Premier League coaching team Geoff Perriman & David Wansbrough.

Geoff Perriman as you'll learn has extensive experience. An AHL player himself he has coached Waverley and Hawthorn Women's Premier League, the Tasmanian Tigers state team and secured no less than 9 APS premierships with the Caulfield Grammar girls.

Wansey needs little introduction to our hockey listeners: Camberwell Life Member, Left Inner in the club's Team of the Century and Olympic Kookaburra with over 200 international caps. He's previously coached our Men's Premier League and many junior club and state teams.

With some personnel moving on, others in Perth with the national program, young players pushing for selection and a new coaching team; 2020 was to be an exciting transformational year for our Women's Premier League group. you'll hear about the coaches' careers, how they managed the challenges of 2020 and kept the group connected, our development progress and how they see season 2021 developing. (players, keep listening after the ending theme 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️)

Episode 27 - MPL coach Lachlan Anderson

Around this time last year our Men's Premier League program were looking to appoint a new head coach; and after some discussions were delighted to secure top candidate in Lachlan Anderson. A strong start to the pre-season ensued with renewed purpose and determination. As you'll hear a terrific off-site camp focusing on conditioning, trust and teamwork led into training and practice matches featuring some very encouraging passages.

The COVID pandemic then arrived and ultimately cancelled the season; denying many of our supporters and members the opportunity to see the group's progress and meet new coach Ando.

Listen to hear about Ando's early career; playing with the Vikings and Junior Australian teams, his move into coaching at club and representative level and insight into coaching both men's and women's groups at Premier League. You'll hear Ando's thoughts on Hockey One, challenges dealing with the interrupted season and impressions coming across to the club.

Episode 26 - Desiree Yap
This week we get to know one of our members. Suz Cannell presents an entertaining chat with masters player Des Yap who was encouraged into returning to our summer competition four years back and has continued playing ever since.

Outside hockey, Dr Desiree Yap is a specialist O&G with a passion for women’s health.She is a qualified specialist in both Australia and the United Kingdom and has a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University. On 26 January 2020, she was appointed Member of the Order of Australia for her ‘significant service to women’s health and to medicine.’

Des was on the board of Women's Health Victoria for eight years and served as their chair for two. She is the past president of the Australian Federation of Medical Women, The Victorian Medial Women's Society and worked in China as a Team Leader for the World Health Organisation during the initial SARS outbreak in 2003.

You can access some great resources from Women's Health Victoria with a focus on health, equality and the prevention of violence against women.

Listen to hear about Des' career and achievements and her strong advocacy for women's health and professional equality. Learn about her mentors, leadership role and her thoughts and advice for young practitioners and new mums during a pandemic.

00:01:14: Introduction
00:06:13: Career
00:09:48: Advocate Women's Health
00:12:50: Empower Women's Health
00:19:41: Mentors
00:22:14: Advice for Young Practitioners
00:30:47: Order of Australia
00:33:14: Achievements
00:35:43: Medical Field Equality
00:38:11: Being a Leader
00:39:39: Health in the Pandemic
00:44:52: Advice to New Mums
00:48:32: What's Next?

Episode 25 - Minka Woolley & Aleisha Neumann
Back in episode 5, Soph Sheahan hosted Camberwell’s Jim Unkles, Sherie Patterson and Vanessa Ponza to discuss all things umpiring. In this episode Jim takes the hosting chair to present legendary Australian Umpire and Umpire Manager Minka Woolley and Queensland international umpire Aleisha Neumann.

Minka Woolley is the Umpire Manager for Tokyo, her fifth Olympic event while Aleisha Neumann will be officiating at her first games in Tokyo.

You'll hear about their journey into umpiring, their memories of Olympic selection and get an insight into the onerous physical and mental preparation required by a modern official at this level.

Just this week Minka received an Award of Merit from Hockey Australia with awards committee member Peri Buckley saying

“Minka Woolley is highly respected at all levels of hockey for her honest, dedicated, compassionate and professional approach not only as an Umpires Manager but also for her overall coaching, encouragement and development of umpires."

Peri continues

"She is an outstanding role model for the sport.”

Congratulations Minka!

Aleisha obtained her FIH international badge in 2014 and Tokyo will be her first games. Aleisha also plays hockey at AHL level with the Brisbane Blaze and has had to choose to concentrate on her umpiring.

Thanks for both for your time and best of luck in Tokyo.