2025 Indoor Club Championships gets underway

Week 1 of the Indoor Club Championships and Junior Indoor Challenge got underway on Friday night, with the Open Women’s Division 1 and Under 14 JIC.

Open Women’s Division 1

There was a total of 22 matches played across the three days at MSC Parkville, with 122 goals scored, with the leading goal scorer going to Tegan Boucher (Mentone) - scoring 14 goals across 7 games.

After a series of competitive pool matches, it was Mentone Hockey Club (1^st Pool A) who played Waverley Hockey Club (2^nd Pool A) in the Grand Final, as Altona (3^rd Pool A) battled Mosman Hockey Club (4^th Pool A) for 3^rd place. where Altona proved too strong winning 5-0 behind a hat-trick from Jessica Brennan.

In the 3^rd place match, it was Destiny Ferguson from Mosman Hockey Club scoring first, but then it proceeded to be all Altona after Ruby Gorton quickly equalised things and then a barrage of 3 goals in 3 minutes saw Altona take a 4-1 lead into the 2^nd half. It was a bit closer in the 2^nd, but unfortunately for Mosman the lead was insurmountable, and Altona ended up closing out the match 5-2.

In the Grand Final showdown, Mentone were looking to reclaim their ICC title and, against a Waverley team who were looking to reach the pinnacle for the first time. It was a competitive first half, but of course it would be leading goal scorer Tegan Boucher who was able to find her way through in the 4^th minute and give Mentone the crucial 1-0 lead. The 2^nd half started tense as both teams looked for that next goal and the momentum it would give. In the 23rd minute it came, as Jessie Dean found the back of the net off a penalty corner, pushing Mentone closer to the win. It would be another Mentone goal in the 30^th minute that nearly sealed the deal, but Waverley would not go down scoreless as Aaliayah Koelmeyer netted one with 5 minutes to go. Mentone would hold on to win 3-1 and make it 2 out of the last 3 championships.

The final standings were as follows:

Thank you to Stuart Westmore for his time this weekend taking photos of the event!  Go visit @hockeyvictoriaofficial and @skwhockeypics on Instagram to see our players in action!

View the full photo album here.

Under 14 Mixed Junior Indoor Challenge

The Under 14 Mixed JIC was run on two indoor pitches at Monash University this year, with 8 teams participating across Saturday and Sunday.

A great opportunity for our new and developing indoor talent to experience event like atmosphere, each team played 5 matches over the course of the weekend. A big day on Saturday saw each team play 3 matches in the first pool groups, and then as Sunday came around, teams of a similar level were broken up into additional pools and played another 2 matches to close out the weekend.

It was great to see so many new officials participate in the U14 JIC this year, and a special thank you to our Umpire Managers, umpire coaches and team staff for assisting with the development of our officials.

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A huge thank you to all of the club administrators, team managers, coaches, players, officials and supporters that were involved in these events across the weekend!

To check out all of the results from the weekend, please use the following links:

Open Women’s Division 1 Competition

Under 14 Junior Indoor Challenge

A huge thank you to our dedicated officials for their tireless work across the weekend. These events truly would not have been possible without you all. A special mention to the following for their appointments:

Open Women’s

Under 14 Mixed

The action continues this weekend (Feb 7, 8, 9) with the Open Division 2 Women’s ICC, and Under 12 Mixed JIC events! Head to Altius and HV Website for fixtures & results, and be sure to keep an eye our social channels for updates.