Sunraysia Hockey Association

🏑🏆 GRAND FINAL WEEKEND IS HERE! 🏆🏑

It all comes down to this! 💚💛

Indoor finals Friday night, then a huge day of outdoor Grand Finals on Saturday!

Come down, wear your club colours, bring your loudest cheers and support our teams as we finish off a fantastic 2026 season! 🙌

Play. Compete. Support. Be Proud. 🏑🔥

Good luck to all our Grand Finalists! 🏆

Why do hockey dads tell jokes?
To score laughs with their kids! 😂🥅

🏑😎HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL OUR HOCKEY DADS! 🥸🏑

Here’s to all the dads spending their weekends at the hockey — driving to games, carrying gear, cheering from the sidelines, volunteering, coaching, fixing things and providing plenty of quality dad jokes along the way! 😜

We hope all our amazing hockey dads have a fantastic Father’s Day! 💚💛

Thanks for everything you do for our hockey kids and our hockey community! 🏑🙌

🏑🌟 CELEBRATING OUR JUNIORS! 🌟🏑

Today we came together to celebrate our amazing juniors and another fantastic season of Sunraysia Hockey! 💚💛

Presentation day recognises some individual achievements, but junior hockey is about so much more than awards. It’s about improvement, teamwork, friendships, having a go and supporting your mates. Every one of our juniors has something to be proud of this season!

🏆 2026 MOST EFFECTIVE PLAYER AWARDS

UNDER 13 GIRLS
Waratahs – Indi
Wanderers/Riverside – April
Koowinda – Yesha
🌟 Overall MEP – Indi

UNDER 13 BOYS
Wanderers – Archie
Waratahs – AJ
Riverside – Jotham
Koowinda – Harry
🌟 Overall MEP – AJ

UNDER 16 MIXED
Waratahs Blue – Conan
Waratahs White – Hamish
Koowinda – Konna
Riverside – Harry
🌟 Male Overall MEP – Hamish & Harry
🌟 Female Overall MEP – Annalise

Congratulations to all our award winners and to every junior who pulled on a shirt this season. We are incredibly proud of you all! 👏

A huge thank you to our comps admin, coaches, managers, umpires, parents and volunteers for everything you do to make junior hockey happen.

The future of Sunraysia Hockey is looking pretty bloody good! 💚💛🏑

📷 Kara and Sue (thanks!)

Rivaside Hockey Club Waratahs Hockey Club Koowinda Hockey Club Inc. Wanderers Hockey Club Mildura

Don’t forget Junior MEP presentations tomorrow!!!

Semis are here. So is Fast Freddy's ❤️❤️❤️❤️

🏑💚💛 SAVE THE DATES – PRESENTATION TIME! 💛💚🏑

The season might be nearly done, but we still have some celebrating to do! 🏆🎉

We have TWO presentation events coming up as we recognise the players, achievements and people who have made our 2026 season such a great one! 🌟

🌟 JUNIOR MOST EFFECTIVE PLAYER PRESENTATION
📅 Saturday 5 September
⏰ 3:00pm
📍 Baseball Pavilion
🏅 Come along and help us celebrate our junior stars!

✨ SENIOR PRESENTATION NIGHT
📅 Tuesday 15 September
⏰ 6:00pm
📍 Mildura Working Man’s Club
🍴 $20 per person – finger food included
🏆 A night to celebrate our senior players, award winners and season!

👉🏻🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS!
2026 Senior Presentation Night – https://www.sunraysiahockey.com.au/events/378936

From our youngest players through to our seniors, these presentations are all about recognising the people who make Sunraysia Hockey what it is. 💚💛

Get the dates in the diary, bring your teammates and families, and come celebrate the end of another hockey season with us! 🏑🏆🥳

Two presentations. Plenty of awards. Lots to celebrate! 💚💛

🏑🌟 JUNIOR MOST EFFECTIVE PLAYER PRESENTATION! 🌟🏑

It’s time to celebrate our amazing junior hockey stars! 💚💛

🏅 Join us for the Junior Most Effective Player Presentation as we recognise the fantastic efforts, skills and achievements of our juniors throughout the season.

📅 Saturday 5 September
⏰ 3:00pm
📍 Baseball Pavilion

🏆 Bring the family, cheer on our juniors and help us celebrate the future stars of hockey! ☀️🏑💚💛

See you Saturday! 🎉🏅🏆

🏑 FINALS REMINDERS – RESPECT FOR ALL 🏑

As we head into finals, let’s make sure the series is safe, positive and enjoyable for everyone.

🟢 Zero Tolerance: Abuse, intimidation, aggressive behaviour, offensive language or disrespect towards players, umpires, officials, coaches, volunteers or spectators will not be accepted—on the field, from the bench or on the sidelines. Inappropriate behaviour may result in removal from the venue and further action.

🟡 Uniforms: Players must wear their complete club uniform, including matching socks and required protective equipment.

🟢 Strict game times: Please arrive early, warm up and be ready to take the field at your scheduled time. Games cannot be delayed.

🟡 Spectators: Stay within designated viewing areas, keep clear of team benches and officials, supervise children and support all teams positively.

🟢 Long grass safety: If a ball goes into long grass, retrieve it with your hockey stick—never your hands.

Please show good sportsmanship, respect the umpires and help us celebrate the very best of our hockey community.

Good luck to all teams! 💚💛

Attention Sunnies players, please see below from Riverland!

❤️🏑 WHAT AN END TO AN AMAZING TOURNAMENT! 🇳🇱🇦🇺

And just like that… our World Youth Hockey Tournament is over. ❤️

What a week. What an experience. What a group of players.

Parents — you should be extremely proud of your players.

On the field they have played hard, represented Sunraysia with pride and taken on some incredible international opposition.

Off the field, they have been respectful, hilarious, supportive of each other and an absolute pleasure to travel with.

And it's fair to say our players were VERY popular with the other international teams! 😂❤️

Part of that may have had something to do with our AMAZING playing strip that EVERYONE wanted! It was so lovely watching our players swap shirts with players from other international teams. 🌏🏑

Seeing our Sunnies shirts being proudly worn by players from other countries was pretty special — and our players now have shirts from their new international mates to take home as a reminder of the friendships they've made along the way. ❤️

🏑 FINAL DAy, GAME WRAP
V Athena (again)

Our first game of the day was a tight one, with neither team able to find the back of the net in the first half.

Our Amazing GK pumped the boys up by saving a massive penalty Stroke. Stick side no less💪💪💪💪

0–0 at half time.

Then the Sunnies got going! 🔥

Kade opened the scoring to put us 1–0 up.

Another penalty corner followed and this time Kayd found the back of the net again ! 💥🏑

The players held strong to finish with a fantastic:

💚💛 2–0 WIN! 💛💚

That win put us into our final game of the tournament, playing off for 5th place.

Once again, the players threw everything at it.

Our opposition managed to get two goals on the board in the second half, but the Sunnies weren't finished.

A stroke gave us an opportunity and Kade stepped up and put it away! 💥

The final whistle brought not only the game to an end, but our World Youth Hockey Tournament campaign to a close.

What an achievement from this group. To come all the way from Sunraysia and compete against international teams on the other side of the world is something they should be incredibly proud of. ❤️🇦🇺

🏆 TOUR AWARDS

After each game, the players cast their votes for the Netherlands Tour 2026 Players’ Player Award.

🥉 3rd Place — 12 votes
Ben Barbary

🥈 2nd Place — 13 votes
Rory Ellis

And your NETHERLANDS TOUR 2026 PLAYERS’ PLAYER is…

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

🏆 KAYD DIVOLA — 15 VOTES! 🏆

Congratulations Kayd! An award voted on by your teammates makes this one pretty special. ❤️

And the Coaches Award — Netherlands Tour 2026 goes to…

🏆 TOBY SMITH 🏆

Congratulations Toby — thoroughly deserved!

From the red earth of Sunraysia to the hockey pitches of the Netherlands… what an adventure this has been. 🇦🇺➡️🇳🇱

The results might eventually fade, but the friendships, laughs, international connections and memories these players have made certainly won't.

And somewhere around the world, there are now a few extra pieces of Sunraysia hockey travelling home with our new international friends. ❤️🌏🏑

Netherlands Tour 2026 — what a ride.

So incredibly proud of this group.

Red Earth. Blue Skies. From Sunraysia With Pride. 🇦🇺❤️🇳🇱

Huge thanks to our sponsors
McGlynn Hunt Funerals
Hip Pocket Work wear
PIP Global safety and workwear
Sutton Refrigeration
Waratah artworks
Mildura Working Man's club
Wizard hockey brand.