Abingdon School

Hockey is a major sport in the Lent term. The Hockey Club usually fields 15 teams throughout the age groups, with every team from U14D to 1st XI competing in the Independent Schools Hockey League. This has been set up by the top flight of hockey playing independent schools, to challenge and stretch their hockey players above and beyond the standard school fixtures. Abingdon competes against Radley, Bradfield, Wellington, Cheltenham, Marlborough, Eton and St Edward’s and Abingdon teams will play against all the seven other schools over the course of the season. All ISHL results are uploaded onto Fixtures Live. This allows players, parents and staff to keep updated on all results and goal-scorers from whatever league they wish to look at.

In the Michelmas term each year group will have one outdoor and one indoor session per week, with an ISHL indoor tournament being held towards the end of term. In the Lent term every team will have three training sessions per week, with a number of ex and current international players supplementing the coaching programme, as well as ISHL matches for every team on Saturdays and some Wednesdays.

The Hockey Club has enjoyed a great deal of success in recent years, with an impressive 22 boys representing the county last year. All three teams entered in the Oxfordshire County Tournaments progressed through to the regional finals, with the U14’s reaching the last 16 of the National Finals. The U15 A team won last years ISHL, winning all seven matches and only conceding 2 goals.