Schools League

2024 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)

2024 Events

‘Have a go’ (26th March – 13th April) Scratch League
Blitz Tournament (5-6th April 2024)
Wellington Secondary Schools League (3rd May – September) including semis and finals
Central Secondary Schools Championship (14th-16th June 2024) UWHNZ Qualification Event
New Zealand Secondary Schools Underwater Hockey Championships.- Tauranga (31st August - Sunday 3rd September 2024).

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:

Coach Sign up

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 paid 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:

Ref Sign up

2024 Competition League

The competition league will run from 3 May 2024 until September 2024. All teams will play 20-24 Matches for the season. Teams need to make the top 4 to qualify for the semi-finals and finals.

Link to College Sport Wellington- Underwater Hockey website for draws

For more information contact:

Annette Jarvis

Schools League Coordinator
[email protected]

Competition League Teams 2024

#	Junior Girls	Junior Open	Senior Girls	Senior Open
1	Hutt Valley High School	Hutt International Boys	Queen Margaret College	Hutt International Boys
2	Samuel Marsden Collegiate Blue	Hutt Valley High School	Samuel Marsden Collegiate	Hutt Valley High School
3	Samuel Marsden Collegiate Green	Scots College	Wellington Girls College Black	Wellington College 1
4	St Mary's College Black	Wellington College	Wellington Girls College Teal	Wellington College 2
5	Wellington East Girls Gold	Wellington High School A	Wellington High School	Wellington High School
6	Wellington Girls College Teal	Wellington High School B	Value	Value
7	Wellington Girls College Black	Value	Value	Value
8	Wellington High School		Value	Value

Term 2 2024 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 2024 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- Tauranga	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

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 (Have a go & Scratch Matches)

Week	Tuesday	Friday	Comments
1	26 March 2024	No play	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	12 April 24	Draw for Tuesday and Friday Scratch matches

2024 Pub Charity Blitz Tournament

Time and Date: 7.30pm Friday 5th April - 9pm Saturday 6th April 2024.
Location: Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre

Tournament focus on developing players and increasing player/team participation to set up teams for success in the 2024 Schools League and the UWHNZ Events. (There will be no medals awarded.)

WUHA hopes to gain your support so that we have 6-7 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