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). Junior Grades are Year 9-10  and Senior catering for Year 9-13  players.  Teams comprise of up to 12 athletes.
​All school league matches are played at Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre. In 2026, we will utilise Naenae and Huia Pools as part of the league venues
Link to Hydro UWH Starter Kits for purchase of suitable Equipment (Tauranga based)
Link to College Sport Wellington- Underwater Hockey website

2025 Events
  • ‘Have a go’ (25th March – 28th April) Scratch League.
  • Blitz Tournament (4-5th April 2025-Friday 7.30-9.45pm and Saturday 12-9pm)
  • Wellington Secondary Schools League  (2nd May – 22nd August 2025) including finals 
  • Central Secondary Schools Championship - Wellington (6th - 8th June 2025) UWHNZ Qualification Event
  • New Zealand Secondary Schools Underwater Hockey Championships.- Wellington (28th August - Sunday 31st Aug 2025). 
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:

Abigail and James Keating

Schools League Coordinator
[email protected]

Equipment

Documents

uwhnz_concussion_protocols.pdf
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2025 Competition League- Terms 2 & 3
Location: Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre​​

​The competition league will run from 2 May 20245 until 22nd August 2025.  All teams will play 20-24 Matches for the season.  
Link to College Sport Wellington- Underwater Hockey website for draws

Term 2 2025 League Dates (Competition)

Week
Tuesday
Friday
Comments
1
29 April 2025 Scratch
2 May 2025
Tuesday Seniors Scratch, 
​Friday Juniors
2
6 May 2025
9 May 2025​
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
3
13 May 2025
16 May 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
4
20 May 2025
23 May 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
5
27 May 2025
30 May 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
6
3 June 2025
Central Schools
​Tuesday- Juniors 1st 3 Game slots, Seniors Last 3 match slots
​Central Secondary Schools Qualifying (Fri,Sat,Sun)
7
10 June 2025
Pool Exclusion
Tuesday- Juniors 1st 3 Game slots, Seniors Last 3 match slots, 
8
17 June 2025
20 June 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
9
24 June 2025
27 June 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors

Term 3 2025 League Dates (Competition)

Week
Tuesday
Friday
Comments
1
15 July 2025
18 July 2025​
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
2
22 July 2025
25 July 2025​
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
3
29 July 2025
1 August 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
4
5 August 2025
8 August 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
5
12 August 2025
15 August 2025
Tuesday Seniors,  Friday Juniors
6 
19 August 2025
School Nationals
​Scratch
Tuesday Finals- WRAC (Kilbirnie)-
​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
 
Pool Exclusion​
 School Nationals- Wellington
School Nationals

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

Term 1 League Dates (Scratch Matches)

Week
Tuesday
Friday
Comments
1
25 March 2025
28 March 2025
Tuesday Scratch Draw
Friday  Scratch Draw
2
1 April 2025
Blitz  Tournament
 Tuesday Scratch Draw
Blitz Tournament ​Friday 4th  & Saturday 5th
3
8 April 2025
Pool Exclusion
Draw for Tuesday Scratch matches

2025 Wellington Blitz Tournament

Time and Date: 7.30pm Friday 4th April - 12 noon till 9pm Saturday 5th April 2025
Location: Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre
Entry Fee:  $120 per team
Entries due: 31 March 2025.

Tournament focus on organising teams and increasing player participation to set up teams for success in the 2025 Schools League and the UWHNZ Events. (There will be no finals or medals awarded.)

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
​Entries:
#
Junior Girls
Junior Open
Senior Girls
Senior Open
1
​Marsden Juniors
JO HIBS
SG WEGC​​
SO WHS
2
JG WHS​
WUHA Composite
​Scots/ Upper Hutt/ Rongotai
Marsden seniors
WC Senior A
3
WUHA Composite St Mary's, St Catherines, Onslow, Chilton, Scots
JO WHS
SG WHS
WC Senior B
4
​​​
​WC Junior A
The T Seals
 
5
 
WC Junior B
 
 
6
 
WC Junior C
 
 

Competition League Teams 2025