Junior Development Program at YMCC: JUMP ( Juniors: Maximising Potential)
In 2026 we are again happy to offer YMCC junior players of ages Year 5-10 the opportunity to improve their fundamental and advanced hockey skills.
We will be running our extremely successful JuMP Program throughout the school holidays and the season in several blocks.
The YMCC JuMP Program has been running since 2016 and aims to provide all our juniors in all grades with top level skills development training in small groups. This year we are changing the program to make more time slots available so that hopefully most of our juniors have the chance to benefit from this opportunity.
The Program is headed up by Suze Bowyer and the YMCC development committee coaches. All these dedicated YMCC coaches are previous high level and elite level players with an extensive knowledge of hockey. Our other coaches will be members of our mens and womens top Premier squads.
All players in Years 5-10 are welcome to book in for these sessions. We will stream the groups into age and skill level appropriate ones during the sessions.
Sessions are updated in our events and news sections of the website and promoted via the club social media posts.
GOALIE CLUB 2026
Our Goalie Club morning is planning on continuing this year at Lemnos Field, with the times and days to be advised.
As per the last 5 years it will focus on improving our junior goalie’s skills. As all goalies know it’s difficult for your team coach to get enough time to work with the team goalie. YMCC Development have set up Goalie Club to allow all our junior goalies to get together and work on their goalie skills in a fun and dynamic 60 minutes.
Any questions regarding any of the above programs please email Suze Bowyer on juniordevelopment@ymcchockey.org.au
