2025 Wellington Secondary Schools Underwater Hockey League
The Wellington Underwater Hockey Association runs a league for secondary school year 9 to 13 athletes, the league is administered by College Sport Wellington (CSW). It is a structured league with 4 grades (Junior Girls, Junior Open, Senior Girls and Senior Open) to provide for both Year 9-10 (u15) and Year 11-13 (u19) players. Teams comprise of max 12 athletes.
All school league matches are played at Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre. In 2025, when Naenae Pool reopens we intend to return to operating at both venues. Link to 2024 CSW Underwater Hockey Summary Flyer Link to College Sport Wellington- Underwater Hockey website Link to 2024 CSW Underwater Hockey Handbook Link to Hydro UWH Starter Kits for purchase of suitable Equipment (Tauranga based) 2025 Events
Schools Coach registration:
Wellington Underwater Hockey Association requires everyone who is coaching a team in the WUHA Schools league to be registered. Please request all coaches for your schools UWH team/s complete this form: Senior Refs squad applications:
WUHA is asking for expressions of interest from those who would like to be part of the Senior Refs Squad. The Senior Refs Squad is a team of qualified L1 refs that ref games in the junior schools league while mentoring junior refs on Fridays and Tuesdays. If you are interested please complete the form: |
For more information contact:Tristan Reynard
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Competition League Teams 2025-Planning
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Junior Girls |
Junior Open |
Senior Girls |
Senior Open |
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2 |
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3 |
Samuel Marsden Collegiate Green |
Wellington Girls College Black |
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4 |
St Mary's College Black |
Wellington College A & B |
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5 |
Wellington East Girls Gold |
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6 |
St Mary's Composite |
Scots College |
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7 |
Onslow College |
Value |
Value |
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8 |
Aotea College |
Value |
Value |
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9 |
Chilton Saint James School |
Tawa College |
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10 |
Onslow College |
Rongotai College |
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11 |
Queen Margaret College |
St Patricks College |
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12 |
Scots College |
Heretaunga / Upper Hutt Colleges |
Term 1 League Dates (Scratch Matches)
Week |
Tuesday |
Friday |
Comments |
1 |
26 March 2024 |
TBC |
Tuesday- Have-a-go -2 court slots- Draw for Tuesday Scratch Matches |
2 |
2 April 2024 |
Blitz Tournament |
Draw for Tuesday Scratch Matches Friday 5th & Saturday 6th Blitz Tournament |
3 |
9 April 2024 |
TBC |
Draw for Tuesday and Friday Scratch matches |
2025 Pub Charity Blitz Tournament
Time and Date: 7.30pm Friday 5th April - 9pm Saturday 6th April 2025
Location: Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre
Tournament focus on developing players and increasing player/team participation to set up teams for success in the 2025 Schools League and the UWHNZ Events. (There will be no medals awarded.)
WUHA hopes to gain your support so that we have 10 Junior Teams and 5-6 Senior Teams in each division participating. The schedule will be a straight Round Robin format and game times will be altered to fit the pool hours available.
Link to Blitz Match Schedule
Location: Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre
Tournament focus on developing players and increasing player/team participation to set up teams for success in the 2025 Schools League and the UWHNZ Events. (There will be no medals awarded.)
WUHA hopes to gain your support so that we have 10 Junior Teams and 5-6 Senior Teams in each division participating. The schedule will be a straight Round Robin format and game times will be altered to fit the pool hours available.
Link to Blitz Match Schedule
2025 Competition League- Terms 2 & 3
The competition league will run from 3 May 2024 until September 2024. All teams will play 20-24 Matches for the season.
Link to College Sport Wellington- Underwater Hockey website for draws
Link to College Sport Wellington- Underwater Hockey website for draws
Term 2 2025 League Dates (Competition)
Week |
Tuesday |
Friday |
Comments |
1 |
30 April 2024 |
3 May 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors Scratch, Friday Juniors Draw Schedule for this week |
2 |
7 May 2024 |
10 May 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
3 |
14 May 2024 |
17 May 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
4 |
21 May 2024 |
24 May 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
5 |
28 May 2024 |
31 May 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
6 |
4 June 2024 |
7 June 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
7 |
11 June 2024 |
Central Schools |
Tuesday- Juniors 1st 3 Game slots, Seniors Last 3 match slots Central Secondary Schools Qualifying (Fri,Sat,Sun) |
8 |
18 June 2024 |
No play |
Tuesday- Juniors 1st 3 Game slots, Seniors Last 3 match slots, |
9 |
25 June 2024 |
No play |
Tuesday- Juniors 1st 3 Game slots, Seniors Last 3 match slots |
10 |
2 July 2024 |
5 July 24 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
Term 3 2025 League Dates (Competition)
Week |
Tuesday |
Friday |
Comments |
1 |
23 July 2024 |
26 July 2023 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
2 |
30 July 2024 |
2 August 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
3 |
6 August 2024 |
9 August 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
4 |
13 August 2024 |
16 August 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors, Friday Juniors |
5 |
20 August 2024 |
23 August 2024 |
Tuesday Seniors- End of RR, Friday Juniors- End of RR |
6 |
27 August 2024 |
No Play- School Nationals- Wellington |
Finals- Game slot #1 JG, 1st and 3rd playoff, Game slot #2 JO, 1st and 3rd playoff, Games slot #3 SG, 1st and 3rd playoff, Game Slot #4 SO, 1st and 3rd playoff |
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Pool Rules
General:
- Set up may begin at 7:20pm or earlier if the blue mats are down
- Goals and barriers must be placed on the blue mats when getting them in and out of the water
- 2 people per goal bin to carry and when swimming them in the water
- 1 person per yellow barrier to carry and when swimming them in the water
- There is to be no use of the bulk heads, if you must get from one side to the other either walk around or swim across
- There is to be no poolside changing (public have recently been complaining)
- A spotter is required for UWH and is a designated person focused on the pool at all times, they must be seated next to the pool on the blue chair
- Set up may begin at 7:20pm or earlier if the blue mats are down
- Goals and barriers must be placed on the blue mats when getting them in and out of the water
- 2 people per goal bin to carry and when swimming them in the water
- 1 person per yellow barrier to carry and when swimming them in the water
- There is to be no use of the bulk heads, if you must get from one side to the other either walk around or swim across
- There is to be no poolside changing (public have recently been complaining)
- A spotter is required for UWH and is a designated person focused on the pool at all times, they must be seated next to the pool on the blue chair
