Underwater Hockey in Victoria, BC

Our underwater hockey club practices every Wednesday at 8:30PM, and every Friday at 7:30PM at the Commonwealth Pool in Victoria BC.

30th Victoria Potluck Tournament Jan 17, 2009

November 12th, 2008

The 30th Annual Victoria UWH Potluck Tournament will be held:

Date:  Saturday, January 17, 2009
Registration time:  9-9:30am that morning; then teams will be created
Pool time:  10:30-5pm
Pool:  Saanich Commonwealth Pool:  http://www.gov.saanich.bc.ca/resident/recreation/scp.html

Hope to see you there!

Fall 2008 Practices

October 1st, 2008
UW Hockey is on again at SCP.
Wednesdays from 8:30-9:30pm and Fridays from 7:30-8:30pm.
There are a few weekends when Underwater Hockey will be canceled due to meets and Tournaments:
Friday, October 24, 
Friday, October 31 (Happy Hallowe’en)
Friday, November 7
Friday, December 12
We are still looking for hosts for Friday nite pizza so clean up your place and let us know!

Summer Practice Updates.

July 10th, 2008

Underwater hockey is cancelled this Friday, June 11.  July 18 and 25th are still on.  Hope to see good turnouts (I could use a good game or two).  There are no practice on Wednesdays.

Upcoming Practices

June 5th, 2008

Wednesday June 18 is hockey as usual.  Friday June 20 is cancelled.

Mark

Practice makes perfect

May 31st, 2008

Let’s practice some of the plays in Nick’s book tonight, so…have a glance at your training manuals over coffee break, (set plays, offensive free pucks, etc.), or if you’re like me, you can read up on it as you drive to practice. Perhaps a safer idea is to just bring your manual along tonight. Learning and enacting these plays will be fun!

No practice Friday, March 21st

March 7th, 2008

Saanich Commonwealth Place will close at 4:00 PM on Good Friday - Friday, March 21. Underwater Hockey will be canceled that evening.

This is the only response so far from SCP about possible March cancellations. All the other times look good at this point.

Underwater Rugby - Our first go!

February 17th, 2008

Today the first underwater rugby game in BC playing with official CMAS rules and an official red ball from Germany was played in Oak Bay Recreation Centre in Victoria BC.

Highlights of the game include:

The Blue team led by Nick the Brit faking a handoff and scoring an open net goal on Big Jim. Nick was his usual self showing strategy and unsurpassed conditioning that led his blue team to ultimate victory.

The ladies: Sarah, Melissa and Pattie proved that coeds belong in this spot. Sarah disregarded the fourth commandment and pushed off her father’s chest with both her feet while holding the ball with a vice grip. Patti gripped the ball like a barnacle causing minute long underwater scrums that exhausted everyone. Melissa was in the mix and did not back down from any tussle what-so- ever,  even after a midnight nursing shift..

Andrew amazingly managed to push a ball into the goal with Big Jim giving him a Heimlich maneuver and blocking the goal with his big old old bod.

Stuart got a break away goal on Nick and was in on every play. Stuart’s arms encircled his opponents like a hungry giant squid looking at supper.

So much  fun was had by all,  that folks want to continue with this game. A big thanks to Big Jim for his ferocity and for his generosity in covering pool costs. Way to go guys!

New Training Documents

February 12th, 2008

For those of you that are interested. We’ve now posted all our training resources to our website. Be sure to check them out. They will live permanently on the left hand sidebar under “training downloads”.

Schedule for February 2008

January 28th, 2008

February is a busy month for other events. Lets get a good turnout for the times when we still have the pool.


Wednesday, February 13th
canceled in Competition pool. Teen program will still run.
Friday, February 15th canceled

Wednesday, February 20 - move training session to 9:00pm to accommodate an extra water polo request (the Great Britain Junior Women National Water Polo Team is in Victoria)
Friday, February 22 - canceled

Friday, February 29 - canceled

Christmas UWH pool schedule

December 15th, 2007

Wed Dec 26 - pool shuts down at 4pm - no practice

Fri Dec 28: 7:30-8:30 pm

Wed Jan 2: 7:30-8:30 pm

Fri Jan 4 - 7:30-8:30pm

Have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and yours!!