Loreto Hockey Club

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Loreto Hockey Club
Union Hockey Ireland
Full nameLoreto Hockey Club
Founded 1926
GroundLoreto High School Beaufort
Grange Road
Rathfarnham
Dublin 14
CoachPaul Fitzpatrick [1]
Website http://www.loretohockeyclub.ie
League Women's Irish Hockey League
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Loreto Hockey Club is a women's field hockey club based in Rathfarnham, Dublin 14, Ireland. [2] The club enter teams in the Women's Irish Hockey League, the Irish Senior Cup [1] and the Irish Junior Cup. [3] Loreto has also represented Ireland in European competitions, winning the 2011 EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge II and finishing third at the 2014 European Club Championship Trophy. [2]

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History

Early years

Loreto Hockey Club was founded in 1926 by Mother Bernadette and Una Murray to represent past pupils of Loreto schools in Ireland. The club adopted the red wine and white of Loreto College, St Stephen's Green as their club colours. Loreto won its first trophy, the Leinster Cup, in 1946. [4] [5]

Irish Senior Cup

Loreto have been regular Irish Senior Cup finalists. On 9 May 2010, with a team that included Nicola Daly, Hannah Matthews, Nikki Symmons, Lizzie Colvin and Alison Meeke, Loreto won the cup after they defeated Railway Union in a penalty shoot-out after the game had finished 2–2. [6] [7] [8] The team was coached by Graham Shaw. [9] [10] Loreto were finalists again in 2012 but this time lost 3–2 against UCD. [11] [12] [13] [14]

2–1Ashton
1955 Instonians [15] 3–1Loreto
1957St Dominic's Past Pupils [16] 2–1Loreto
1958Loreto [17] 8–0Old Ursulines
1960Loreto [18] [19] 3–0 Instonians
1977Portadown2–1Loreto
1993Portadown2–0Loreto
2002Loreto [20] 2–2 [note 1] Hermes
2003Loreto [21] 3–2 [note 2] Cork Harlequins
2009–10Loreto [6] [7] [8] 2–2 [note 3] Railway Union
2011–12 UCD [11] [12] [13] [14] 3–2Loreto
2018-19 Cork Harlequins 2-2Loreto
Notes
  1. ↑ Loreto won 3–1 after penalty shoot-out
  2. ↑ After extra time
  3. ↑ Loreto won 4–2 after penalty shoot-out

Women's Irish Hockey League

In 2008–09 Loreto, with a team that included Nikki Symmons, Lizzie Colvin, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke, won the inaugural Women's Irish Hockey League title. In the league final they defeated a Hermes team that included Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan, Gillian Pinder and Chloe Watkins. Loreto won 2–1 in a penalty shoot-out, becoming the first team in the world to win a title with the new one-on-one format. [1] [22]

SeasonWinnersScoreRunners Up
2008–09Loreto [22] [note 1] Hermes
2011–12 Railway Union [23] Loreto
2012–13 Railway Union [24] [note 2] Loreto
2014–15 Pegasus [25] [26] 1–1 [note 3] Loreto
Notes
  1. ↑ Loreto won 2–1 after penalty shoot-out
  2. ↑ Railway Union won after a penalty shoot-out
  3. ↑ Pegasus won 4–2 after a penalty shoot-out

Source: [27]

EY Champions Trophy

Loreto won the 2018 EY Champions Trophy and, as a result, qualified to represent Ireland in the 2019 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup. [28]

YearWinnersScoreRunners Up
2018Loreto [29] [30] [31] 2–1 Cork Harlequins

Source: [27]

Irish Junior Cup

Loreto's second team enter the Irish Junior Cup. They won the cup in 2012 [3] [32] and were runners-up in 2016. [33]

YearWinnersScoreRunners Up
1946Loreto
1948Loreto
1955Loreto [34] 1–1 [note 1] Sandown, Belfast
2005Loreto1–0 Old Alexandra II
2012Loreto [32] 2–0 Pembroke Wanderers
2016 Queens University [33] 3–2Loreto
Notes
  1. ↑ Loreto and Sandown, Belfast shared the trophy

Loreto in Europe

Loreto has also represented Ireland in European competitions on several occasions. [2] [5] In 2011, with a team that included Nicola Daly, Nikki Symmons, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke, Loreto won the EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge II in Lille. In the final they defeated HC Olten of Switzerland 7–1. [35] In 2014 Hannah Matthews captained Loreto to third place at the European Club Championship Trophy tournament hosted by Leicester Hockey Club. [2] [36] [37] [38]

Grounds

The club was originally based in Dartmouth Square. In the 1930s, the club moved to Cherryfield, then in Templeogue, and played on a pitch which was actually a field at the back of one of the club member's houses. In the mid-1940s, the club moved to the grounds of the Leinster Branch of the Irish Hockey Union near Ballyboden St. Enda's GAA. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the club remained at the Leinster Branch grounds, sharing the six pitches there with four other clubs. When the Leinster Branch grounds were sold for development in the early 1980s, the club was homeless again. The Sisters of Loreto gave the club access to the pitch at Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham. In 1987, with the Sisters' support and after much fundraising, the club laid a floodlit all-weather pitch at Nutgrove School. In the 1997–98 season, the club laid its own astro-turf pitch in partnership with the Loreto Beaufort School. The playing surface on the pitch was replaced in September 2006 with a sand-dressed pitch. [4] In 2017–18 the club successfully applied to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for a €150,000 grant to upgrade the pitch. [39] [40] In 2013, the club opened a new clubhouse, becoming the first women-only hockey club in Ireland to have its own purpose-built clubhouse. [2] [4]

Notable players

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When the Ireland women's national field hockey team won the silver medal at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, the squad included five current or former Loreto players. Nicola Daly, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke were all members of Loreto's 2017–18 squad. [41] [42] [43] Lizzie Colvin and Elena Tice were both former Loreto players.

  • Cathy McKean
  • Alison Meeke
  • Caitriona O'Kelly
  • Ann Murray
  • Aoife Pomeroy

Source: [5] [43]

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Notable coaches

Honours

Source: [2] [5]

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