Loughborough Students' Hockey Club is the

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club of

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public university, public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university sinc ...

Recent history

The men's 1st XI compete in the

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and were winners of the

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championships for eight of the past thirteen years. They have also won the National Indoor Championships four times since 2003, as well as gold (2004) and bronze (2005) at the European Indoor Challenge, and were quarter-finalists in the

Euro Hockey League The Euro Hockey League is an annual field hockey cup competition organized by the EHF for the very top field hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season when it merged and replaced the men ...

in 2008. The other men's teams compete in the Midlands League. The club currently run four teams and compete in the following competitions; *1st XI –

, BUCS Premier League, BUCS KO Championship *2nd XI – Midlands Premier League, BUCS National League, BUCS Trophy KO Cup *3rd XI – 1st XI Midlands Premier League, BUCS League Midlands 1A, BUCS Trophy KO Cup *4th XI – Central League – Midlands Premier Division, BUCS League Midlands 2A, BUCS Conference KO Cup The Women's 1st XI team competes in the Premier league of the

Women's England Hockey League The Women's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features women's teams from England. From 2011–2020 it was sponsored by Investec and was referred to as the Investec Women's Hockey League. Format ...

. The team has had great success in BUCS having previously won the Hockey Championship for eleven years straight up to 2008 and are current champions. The women's club currently run five teams and compete in the following competitions; *1st XI - EH Premier League, BUCS Premier League, BUCS KO Championship *2nd XI - EH National League North, BUCS League National league, BUCS Trophy KO Cup *3rd XI - Midlands Division 1, BUCS League Midlands 2B, BUCS Conference KO Cup *4th XI - Leicestershire Women's League Premier Division, BUCS League Midlands 2B, BUCS Conference KO Cup *5th XI - Leicestershire Women's League Division 1, BUCS League Midlands 4B, BUCS Conference KO Cup

Teams

Women's First Team Squad 2024–25 season

Notable players

Men's internationals

; ; ; * David Ralph * Derek Salmond * Mark Zander ; * Matt Grace * Zak Jones ; * Rob Smith ; * Fabio Reinhard ;Others * Danny Kerry - England/Great Britain coach

Women's internationals

; ; ; * Robyn Collins

Honours

* Men's National Cup **''Runners Up'': 2004–05

References

{{Loughborough University Field hockey clubs in England

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