3 South African Schools' Hockey Players

3 SA Hockey Players and the Coach!

Outstanding performances by 3 of our players at the recent Interprovincial Tournaments for hockey in South Africa recently saw Tamsin Copeland, Olivia Levieux and Taryn Rauff drafted into the South African Schools Hockey teams to compete in a 3 Test series against Australia in Pretoria and against Namibia and Zimbabwe for the U16s.  If that wasn't enough, our Director of Hockey, Mr Robin van Ginkel, was selected too as the U18A Hockey Head Coach!

Tamsin Copeland was selected for the SA U18A side and was named Goal Keeper of the Tournament at the IPT

Olivia Levieux was selected for the SA U18B side and Taryn Rauff for the SA U16A side. The U16 side played tests against Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Tamsin Copeland

Olivia Levieux

Taryn Rauff

Mr Robin van Ginkel - St Stithians College Hockey Director and Sports Scientist

Rob is a Sports Scientist by profession and our Director of Hockey for the whole College.  He has a passion for technology and uses the Zephyr and Suunto team systems in his personalised programs for individual performance development. He has been the Sports Scientist for the Delhi Waveriders in India for the past 3 years, the SA Men's Hockey Team SS in 2013 and the University of Johannesburg Sports Scientist for 4 years managing a variety of sports. Prior to that he was with the SA Womens Hockey team for 2 years and was employed at St Johns College as Head of Sports Science.

He has been the SA Schools U18 coach for the past two years, Southern Gauteng Senior Mens hockey coach, UJ womens coach, Wanderers Sports Coach and SA U18 Boys' National hockey coach. His qualifications are B.Com Sports Management and Honours in Sports Science from UJ. Interestingly he was Head Boy at Springs Boys' High way back in 1999 with sports colours for Hockey, Water Polo and Swimming!

Rob is a wonderful asset to the College and we are proud and delighted to have him on board as Director of Hockey at St Stithians.

"He has a passion for taking part in a variety of sports: Hockey, Golf, Squash, Cycling and Triathlons and loves spending time with his family on weekends, particularly in the outdoors."