Under 18
Otago Hockey U18 Regional Training Environment 2026
The U18 Representative program will follow 4 stages in 2026
Below is an outline of the U18 program we are putting in place to make sure we give our players every opportunity to perform on the national stage.
Stage 1 (COMPLETED)
Training/ Upskill training sessions. These sessions will be run from the 17th February – 31st March. There would be a cost to this of $100.
This can be paid when registering at PlayHQ Click Here
Monday evening from 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Stage 2 (C0MPLETED)
Internal Game Play - the Highland Cup
- The plan is to identify players in the U18 age group to play in these games. The games would be played over 3 Sundays.
- 26th March (Thursday night)
- Women 7.00pm – 8.00pm
- Meet time 6.30pm
- Men 8.00pm – 9.00pm
- Meet time 7.30pm
- 29th March (Sunday afternoon)
- Women 9.00am – 11.00am
- Meet time 8.30am
- Men 9.00am – 11.00am
- Meet time 8.30am
- To be considered for these games, ideally, we would encourage players to attend Stage 1 the training/Upskilling sessions.
- Players who attend training/ upskilling will be offered this opportunity first.
- Women 9.00am – 11.00am
- Women 7.00pm – 8.00pm
- 26th March (Thursday night)
Stage 3
External Game Play - the Wakatipu Shield
- We are scheduled to play teams from Southland and Central Otago over a weekend
- 10th May
- We will hopefully select two teams for this weekend in each gender.
- Teams will be selected from the Internal Game Play
Stage 4
Mainland Cup
- From the Wakatipu Shield teams we will be selecting the Mainland Cup squad to prepare for these games.
- There will be trainings for this squad starting the end of May.
- Total of 3 trainings
- Mainland Cup is on Queen’s Birthday weekend 30th 31st May 1st June
Tournament
5th – 10th July
- Men in Tauranga
- Women in Palmerston North
We are offering multi optional hockey sessions before the trial because:
OTAGO U18 WOMEN'S SQUAD