Maryland-DC Field Hockey Association

The Greene Turtle club of Fells Point is putting on an indoor tournament over two Saturdays in January. This is the second year the club has hosted this event.

Both sessions will be held at Dundalk Community College in east Baltimore. U19 teams play on Jan. 8 starting at 8 am. U16 and U14 teams play on Jan. 15, with the younger girls in the morning and the older girls starting around 12:30 pm.

Each team is guaranteed 4 games, with playoffs and a championship. Winning team receives champion T-shirts. Cost is $360 per team. All players must be current USFHA members.

More information and registration on the club website. Click on the “GT Field Hockey Tournament” menu item near the top right of the page.

The Gaels club is putting on an indoor tournament over two Sundays in December for four age groups.

Cost is $300 per team and will include awards for the first- and second-place teams and certified/rated umpires. Each team has a guaranteed minimum of four 25-minute games.

The tournament will be at the Meadowview Athletic Complex near Ellicott City on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, 8 am to 4 pm both days. Pools will be set up for U12, U14, U16 and U19 teams.

Registration is open now and is first come, first served. Go to the Gaels website to register and for more details. You can also email the club.

The SPark club is offering a series of leagues for various age levels, including adults, starting in December at the club’s new Indoor Training Center in Odenton.

The new building is a few miles from the club’s longtime home in Millersville, right off Route 32 in Anne Arundel County. Maps, directions and more details can be found on the SPark website. (Download and complete registration form and player release form.)

Here’s a list of the leagues:

Spark Adult Indoor League
Thursdays 8 pm to 10 pm.
December 9, 16, 23, 30 and January 6, 13, 20, 27.
Punch cards available. Fees: 4 games for $50 / 8 games for $75.

SPark U19/U16 Club Level League
Wednesdays 4 pm to 10 pm.
Each team will play two 25-minute games
Dec. 8, 15, 22, 29, Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Feb. 2, 9, 16.
Team fee $1,200, with a maximum 10 players. Each additional player $10.
This U19 / U16 Club League is a great way to play intact with club team members. It is also open to varsity high school teams looking for a more competitive level of play.

High School League
Mondays 4 pm to 10 pm.
Each team will play two 25-minute games
Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27, Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and Feb. 7, 14
Team fee $1,200, with a maximum of 10 players. Each additional player is $10.
Individual registrations will be accepted, which are $125.

Junior League (6th, 7th, 8th grades)
Sundays 1 pm to 10 pm.
Each team will play two 25-minute games
Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23
Team fee $1,000, with a maximum of 10 players. Each additional player is $10.
Individual registration as well, $125.

Middie League (5th and 6th grades)
Sundays 11 am to 3 pm.
Each team will play two 25-minute games
Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23
Team fee $1,000, with a maximum of 10 players. Each additional player is $10.
Individual registration as well, $125.

Elementary League (3rd, 4th, 5th Grades)
Sundays 10 am to 2 pm.
Each team will particpate in a 10-minute clinic and two 22-minute games
Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23
Team fee $1,000, with a maximum of 10 players. Each additional player is $10.
Individual registration as well, $125.

Organizers of the annual Relay for Life indoor tournament are looking for teams to participate in the event, which benefits the American Cancer Society, on Dec. 5.

The tournament is a week or so earlier than in past years, but will again be held at the Meadowbrook Athletic Complex near Ellicott City. There will be U16 and U19 pools and perhaps an open pool for teams of adults. Tee Goh of the dcDragons says he is organizing a coaches team and suggests that other clubs might put together “a fun team, or make up a coaches teams, to support (the) tournament, play for fun and get some exercise.”

Cost is $350 per team but includes a T-shirt for each player and medals for the winning team in each division. Each team will play four or five games.

All money raised goes to the Cancer Society.

Shelly Chamness of the Hericanes club and River Hill High School has been running the event for 10 years and can answer any questions.

The Spitfire club is now fielding indoor field hockey teams for recreational-level U14 and U12 players as well as U12 tournament teams.

Club officials are also planning a tournament for recreational indoor hockey teams in February. For more details, contact the club at spitfirefieldhockey@comcast.net.

Spitfire is based in Columbia, MD. Teams train in the Baltimore/Washington corridor and play in local leagues, as well as local, regional, and national tournaments. Programs run year round.

Hockey fans can see the top four Division I college teams without leaving the area because the NCAA final four will be held at the University of Maryland in mid-November.

The first semifinal game will be played Friday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m., with the second semifinal at 4:30 p.m. The national championship game will take place on Sunday, Nov. 21 at noon. The final four teams will be decided in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

Tickets are now on sale. An adult all-session pass is $18, with students and seniors paying $12. Single-session adult tickets are on sale for $10 and student/senior tickets are $7. All-session passes include admission to both games on Nov. 19 and the championship game on Nov. 21.

Contact the Terrapin Ticket Office at 1-800-IM-A-TERP or online at the UMd ticketing site.

More details about the tournament are on the NCAA site.

All three games are at the UMd hockey-lacrosse stadium across the big parking lot from the Comcast Center on Paint Branch Drive (map below).

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The SPark hockey camp will be held on four mornings next week (Aug. 2 through Aug. 5) as the summer winds down toward the start of high school tryouts and practice.

The camp will be at Severna Park High School on the turf field from 8 to 10 each morning. The camp is run by college players Allison Behringer and Kaylee Pohlmeyer and will feature a half-dozen other college players as coaches.

Campers will be split into two age groups, with a “lower” camp for girls going in to 5th through 8th grades and an “upper” camp for high-school-age girls.

Download the camp brochure/waiver/signup form for more details.

Several hockey camps aimed at players with widely varying skill levels will occur in the next few weeks at the Champions Field House in Rockville.

The first, a version of the well-known World Camps, starts this weekend (Saturday, July 31) and runs 9 am to 5 pm daily through Tuesday, Aug. 3. The camp features coaches from Holland teaching European techniques and skills — see the website link below for more details about this unique opportunity.

Then the week of Aug. 9 two camps will run concurrently: A JV/Varsity camp to help girls get ready for high school tryouts and a beginner camp for girls ages 8 to 14. Both run from 9 am to 1 pm inside the air-conditioned building.

Details, costs and registration are at http://www.championsfieldhouse.com/fhockey_events.shtm#youthcamps

Girls looking for a nearby camp for the end of the summer should check out the Field Hockey Star camp at St. Andrews Episcopal School between Potomac and Rockville.

The camp has three sessions and is run by Cay Miller, the hockey coach at Churchill high school, Gina Grubb, coach at Poolesville and recent college graduates and Churchill alums Amanda and Jennifer Saber.

The camp is open to girls ages 12 to 17, and starts with the first of two afternoon-only week-long clinics on Monday (July 26). All play is on the St. Andrews turf field.

The sessions include:

• July 26-30: Intense Afternoon Clinic: 3 pm to 6 pm. Cost is $200.
• August 2-6: Intense Afternoon Clinic: 3pm to 6 pm. Cost $200.
• August 9-13: Preseason Prep Camp: 9am to 3:30 pm. Campers can sign up to attend all day ($300), mornings only (9 am to noon, $200) or afternoons only (1 pm to 3:30 pm, $150).

Full details are on the camp website.

Organizers of the Summer Smash Tournament in late July are looking for adult and U19 teams to play in a 7-v-7 half-field contest on turf fields in Howard County.

The tourney, co-sponsored by the Baltimore Field Hockey Association and the Howard County Parks and Recreation Department, is billed as the second annual Summer Smash. Up to 64 teams can participate in either the adult or U19 divisions

Registration for the July 24-25 tournament closes July 9. Download the tournament flyer (pdf or doc) for details.