Minkey (K to 4)

Minkey 2025 ❤🐺🏑

We are pleased to welcome back Phil Curtis as our 2025 Minkey Co-Ordinator. Phil can be contacted on 0411 422 639 or minkey@wolves.org.au

Minkey (Kindy to Yr 4) is an original Hockey Australia initiative driven by Westside Wolves and supported by Hockey Australia and Hockey WA. Minkey was developed to introduce children to a modified version of full field Hockey. The smaller fields and mixed teams allow players to develop good hockey and team skills prior to playing full field hockey in Year 5. Westside Wolves Minkey is held on Saturday mornings at College Park, Nedlands.

The Westside Wolves Minkey program at College Park is thought to be the largest in Australia with over 20 local schools delivering 50 plus teams and has been running for nearly 30 years.

Developing good spirit of the game is paramount and therefore there is no ladder or scoring. It is essential that players parents and coaches remember that this may be the first time for many children in a team sport and so it needs to be a positive experience.

We are looking forward to welcoming back all of our Minkey Maestros from last season and introducing our fine game to some new comers.

ROUND ELEVEN FIXTURES – 16^TH AUGUST


	YEAR 1'S			YEAR 2'S


9:00am	Nth Cott Strikers	Field	9:00am	North Cott yr2	Field
V	PLC Hockeyroos	1	V	Redbacks	4

9:00am	Freshy Dolphin Power	Field	9:00am	Cottesloe	Field
V	Subi Bananas	2	V	Swanny Jets	5

9:00am	Swanny Swifties	Field
V	Cottesloe Stick Ninja's	3

	Nth Cott Shooting Stars
	Bye




	YEAR 3'S			YEAR 4'S


10:00am	Swanny Superstars	Field	10:00am	North Cott Fast Flicks	Field
V	Nth Cott Minkey Masters	A	V	PLC Kookaburras	E

10:00am	Scotch	Field	10:00am	Nth Cott Thundersticks	Field
V	Swanny Strikers	B	V	Cottesloe	D

10:00am	Cottesloe	Field
V	Western Lions	F

ROUND TWELVE FIXTURES – 23^RD AUGUST


	YEAR 1'S			YEAR 2'S


9:00am	Nth Cott Strikers	Field	9:00am	North Cott yr2	Field
V	Nth Cott Shooting Stars	1	V	Cottesloe	4

9:00am	Subi Bananas	Field	9:00am	Redbacks	Field
V	Swanny Swifties	2	V	Swanny Jets	5

9:00am	Cottesloe Stick Ninja's	Field
V	Freshy Dolphin Power	3

	PLC Hockeyroos
	Bye




	YEAR 3'S			YEAR 4'S
				Round Robin Event

10:00am	Swanny Strikers	Field	9:35am	North Cott Fast Flicks	Field
V	Swanny Superstars	A	9:55am	Cottesloe	D

10:00am	Cottesloe	Field	10:00am	Cottesloe	Field
V	Nth Cott Minkey Masters	B	10:20am	Nth Cott Thundersticks	D

10:00am	Scotch	Field	10:25am	Nth Cott Thundersticks	Field
V	Western Lions	F	10:45am	North Cott Fast Flicks	D

2025 Minkey Calander

2025 Minkey Field Map

2025 Parent Minkey Info Pack

2025 Minkey Easter Holidays Clinic

Starting times every week

Kindy/Pre-Primary	Skills based session	No teams	9.00 – 9.45am
School Year 1	Pups	7 a Side	9.00 – 9.45am
School Year 2	Cubs	7 a Side	10.00 – 10.45am
School Year 3	Warewolves	9 a Side	10.00 – 10:45am
School Year 4	Wolverines	9 a Side	9.00 – 9:45am

Minkey Umpiring

If you are in Year 7 or above and are interested in umpiring Minkey at College Park each Saturday between 8.30am - 11.00am for the 2025 Season, please email minkey@wolves.org.au to register your interest.

Minkey Coaching

If you are in Year 8 or above and are interested in being an assistant coach at the School Holiday Clinic or through the Minkey Program for the 2025 Season, please email minkey@wolves.org.au to register your interest.

Wolves Junior Club Coach Development Program is a structured, targeted program for different levels of coaching experience. That is for:

New coaches who have never coached previously – in particular school age and parent coaches.
Coaches who have had some experience but need to broaden their range of skills, drills etc.
Highly experienced coaches interested in fine tuning their coaching skills and/or developing their mentoring/leadership of junior coaches and/or participating in HockeyWA state & pathways programs.

Rules

Minkey Rules for Year 1 and Year 2

FUN and SAFETY are the main focus.

Minkey Rules for Year 3

STEPPING up to the BIGGER FIELD while keeping it simple.

Minkey Rules for Year 4

TRANSITIONAL game leading to BIG KIDS HOCKEY next year.

CONTINUING THIS SEASON KINDY/PRE-PRIMARY Skills-based sessions

After the success of the 2024 kindy and pre-primary skills-based sessions, we will be continuing in 2025. This will be held at 9am each Saturday for the duration of the Minkey season.

No teams are necessary, all registrations will be taken on an individual basis. Parents are encouraged to assist. This is a great way to introduce your child to hockey skills in a fun and age-appropriate manner. Registrations can be found at the same link as normal player registrations above.

All children will be required to bring their own stick, mouthguard and shinpads. Parents or guardians must remain at the ground during the session and must sign their child in and out at the beginning and end of the session.

Need more info?

For general Minkey enquiries please contact minkey@wolves.org.au. For team or training enquiries, please contact your school coordinator.

Child Safe Practices Do's & Dont's - Sport Integrity Australia

Introducing our Premiere Minkey Sponsors

Dalkeith Veterinary Clinic, is owned by Cameron Murray whose children are long term players at Wolves and started in Minkey.

The Roof & Wall Doctor is a family operated business of our very own Club Co-Ordinator Jac's, who started her Wolves journey as a Minkey Coach 12 years ago.

AMC Motorcycles is owned & operated by our Junior Co-Ordinator, Ainslie Cornelius, who was one of our most successful School Co-Ordinator's for Minkey.

These long term Wolves family Companies are supporting our grass roots Minkey Kids - please look to support them in their efforts to support and grow Wolves Hockey 🏑🐺

Minkey Umpiring

If you are in Year 7 or above and are interested in umpiring Minkey at College Park each Saturday between 8.30am - 11.00am for the 2023 season, please email minkey@wolves.org.au to register your interest.

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