Hockey Tag Archive

From Year 8 to Olympic Qualifiers

A Glorious First Term for Boys’ Hockey at Wallace! The Wallace Boys’ Hockey Club have enjoyed a dream first term. This included the 1st XI winning the Irish Schools’...

Wallace crowned All Ireland Schools’ Hockey Champions!

The saying goes that “there’s no ‘I’ in team”, there is, however, an ‘I’ in time. 36 years is a long time to wait for a second All Ireland Schools’ Hockey title,...

Wallace Boys’ Hockey End of Season

Thanks to Mr Gareth Kidd for providing this summary of the Boys’ Hockey Club 2022-2023. As always, we’ve seen moments of triumph and disaster, but to adapt Kipling’s famous...

Success in multiple fields!

Current Head Boy, Josh Kamalarajah, certainly deserves the title Renaissance Man as his talents are many and varied! Academic and sporting success coupled with acting and singing...

Celebrating Sporting Success @Wallace

It is a source of great pride to the school that so many of our students show such commitment to, and enthusiasm for,  school sport with hundreds of students arriving at...

Hockey Triumph in Dowdall Cup

As a school we pride ourselves on the fact that our boys are proudly competitive and highly successful in both hockey and rugby which is no mean feat in a co-educational school of...

Boys’ hockey tour to Rotterdam

A group of thirty four junior boys hockey players and four staff returned recently from a highly successful tour to Holland where they played matches against top clubs, as well as...

Wallace Achieve Another Boys’ Hockey Double

The Wallace High School secured a rare boys’ hockey double last week after beating Sullivan Upper on penalty run ins in a fantastic John Minnis Burney Cup Final at Stormont....

Is there a hockey gene?

Max Taylor was the hero of the hour in Wallace’s recent Burney Cup triumph as he scored a last gasp equaliser against Sullivan Upper in a final which was never anything but...

From the “Smurf Turf” to India and beyond

International position for Wallace Hockey legend Wallace’s Head of Boys’ Hockey, Mr Gareth Kidd, has enjoyed great success as a coach both at school and club level. The school...