Loreto Hockey Club

Field hockey club in Dublin, Ireland

Loreto Hockey ClubUnion| Hockey Ireland

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Full name| Loreto Hockey Club
Founded| 1926
Ground| Loreto High School Beaufort
Grange Road
Rathfarnham
Dublin 14
Coach| Paul Fitzpatrick [1]
Website| http://www.loretohockeyclub.ie
League| Women's Irish Hockey League

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Loreto Hockey Club is a women's field hockey club based in Rathfarnham, Dublin 14, Ireland.[2] The club enter teams in the Women's Irish Hockey League, the Irish Senior Cup[1] and the Irish Junior Cup.[3] Loreto has also represented Ireland in European competitions, winning the 2011 EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge II and finishing third at the 2014 European Club Championship Trophy.[2]

## History

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### Early years

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Loreto Hockey Club was founded in 1926 by Mother Bernadette and Una Murray to represent past pupils of Loreto schools in Ireland. The club adopted the red wine and white of Loreto College, St Stephen's Green as their club colours. Loreto won its first trophy, the Leinster Cup, in 1946.[4][5]

### Irish Senior Cup

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Loreto have been regular Irish Senior Cup finalists. On 9 May 2010, with a team that included Nicola Daly, Hannah Matthews, Nikki Symmons, Lizzie Colvin and Alison Meeke, Loreto won the cup after they defeated Railway Union in a penalty shoot-out after the game had finished 2–2.[6][7][8] The team was coached by Graham Shaw.[9][10] Loreto were finalists again in 2012 but this time lost 3–2 against UCD.[11][12][13][14]

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1955  | Instonians[15] | 3–1 | Loreto
1957 | St Dominic's Past Pupils [16] | 2–1 | Loreto
1958 | Loreto [17] | 8–0 | Old Ursulines
1960 | Loreto [18][19] | 3–0 | Instonians
1977 | Portadown | 2–1 | Loreto
1993 | Portadown | 2–0 | Loreto
2002 | Loreto [20] | 2–2 [note 1] | Hermes
2003 | Loreto [21] | 3–2 [note 2] | Cork Harlequins
2009–10 | Loreto [6][7][8] | 2–2 [note 3] | Railway Union
2011–12 | UCD[11][12][13][14] | 3–2 | Loreto
2018-19  | Cork Harlequins | 2-2  | Loreto

Notes

1. ^ Loreto won 3–1 after penalty shoot-out
2. ^ After extra time
3. ^ Loreto won 4–2 after penalty shoot-out

### Women's Irish Hockey League

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In 2008–09 Loreto, with a team that included Nikki Symmons, Lizzie Colvin, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke, won the inaugural Women's Irish Hockey League title. In the league final they defeated a Hermes team that included Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan, Gillian Pinder and Chloe Watkins. Loreto won 2–1 in a penalty shoot-out, becoming the first team in the world to win a title with the new one-on-one format.[1][22]

Season  | Winners  | Score  | Runners Up

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2008–09 | Loreto [22] | [note 1] | Hermes
2011–12 | Railway Union[23] |  | Loreto
2012–13 | Railway Union[24] | [note 2] | Loreto
2014–15 | Pegasus[25][26] | 1–1 [note 3] | Loreto

Notes

1. ^ Loreto won 2–1 after penalty shoot-out
2. ^ Railway Union won after a penalty shoot-out
3. ^ Pegasus won 4–2 after a penalty shoot-out

Source:[27]

### EY Champions Trophy

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Loreto won the 2018 EY Champions Trophy and, as a result, qualified to represent Ireland in the 2019 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup.[28]

Year  | Winners  | Score  | Runners Up

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2018 | Loreto [29][30][31] | 2–1 | Cork Harlequins

Source:[27]

### Irish Junior Cup

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Loreto's second team enter the Irish Junior Cup. They won the cup in 2012 [3][32] and were runners-up in 2016.[33]

Year  | Winners  | Score  | Runners Up

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1946 | Loreto |  |
1948 | Loreto |  |
1955 | Loreto [34] | 1–1 [note 1] | Sandown, Belfast
2005 | Loreto | 1–0 | Old Alexandra II
2012 | Loreto [32] | 2–0 | Pembroke Wanderers
2016 | Queens University[33] | 3–2 | Loreto

Notes

1. ^ Loreto and Sandown, Belfast shared the trophy

### Loreto in Europe

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Loreto has also represented Ireland in European competitions on several occasions.[2][5] In 2011, with a team that included Nicola Daly, Nikki Symmons, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke, Loreto won the EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge II in Lille. In the final they defeated HC Olten of Switzerland 7–1.[35] In 2014 Hannah Matthews captained Loreto to third place at the European Club Championship Trophy tournament hosted by Leicester Hockey Club.[2][36][37][38]

## Grounds

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The club was originally based in Dartmouth Square. In the 1930s, the club moved to Cherryfield, then in Templeogue, and played on a pitch which was actually a field at the back of one of the club member's houses. In the mid-1940s, the club moved to the grounds of the Leinster Branch of the Irish Hockey Union near Ballyboden St. Enda's GAA. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the club remained at the Leinster Branch grounds, sharing the six pitches there with four other clubs. When the Leinster Branch grounds were sold for development in the early 1980s, the club was homeless again. The Sisters of Loreto gave the club access to the pitch at Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham. In 1987, with the Sisters' support and after much fundraising, the club laid a floodlit all-weather pitch at Nutgrove School. In the 1997–98 season, the club laid its own astro-turf pitch in partnership with the Loreto Beaufort School. The playing surface on the pitch was replaced in September 2006 with a sand-dressed pitch.[4] In 2017–18 the club successfully applied to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for a €150,000 grant to upgrade the pitch.[39][40] In 2013, the club opened a new clubhouse, becoming the first women-only hockey club in Ireland to have its own purpose-built clubhouse.[2][4]

## Notable players

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Ireland internationals

When the Ireland women's national field hockey team won the silver medal at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, the squad included five current or former Loreto players. Nicola Daly, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke were all members of Loreto's 2017–18 squad.[41][42][43] Lizzie Colvin and Elena Tice were both former Loreto players.

* Mary Barnwell
* Lizzie Colvin
* Nicola Daly
* Louisa Healy
* Hannah Matthews

* Cathy McKean
* Alison Meeke
* Caitriona O'Kelly
* Ann Murray
* Aoife Pomeroy

* Sarah Rand
* Niamh Small
* Nikki Symmons
* Elena Tice
* Sarah Torrans

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Source:[5][43]

Ireland women's cricket internationals

* Nikki Symmons
* Elena Tice

## Notable coaches

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* Graham Shaw

## Honours

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* EuroHockey Club Champion's Challenge II
* Winners: 2011: 1
* Women's Irish Hockey League
* Winners: 2008–09: 1
* Runners Up: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15: 3
* Irish Senior Cup
* Winners: 1940, 1946, 1953, 1960, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2009–10: 8
* Runners Up: 1955, 1957, 1977, 1993, 2011–12: 5
* Irish Junior Cup
* Winners: 1946, 1948, 1955, 2005, 2012: 5
* Runners Up: 2016: 1
* EY Champions Trophy
* Winners: 2018, 2022-23

Source:[2][5]

## References

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2. ^ a b c d e f "Welcome to Loreto Hockey Club". www.loretohockeyclub.ie. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
3. ^ a b "Loreto Ladies 2nd XI". www.loretohockeyclub.ie. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
4. ^ a b c "Club History". www.loretohockeyclub.ie. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
5. ^ a b c d "Loreto Hockey Club – Biography". www.leinsterhockey.ie. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
6. ^ a b "Loreto triumph after shoot-out". www.irishtimes.com. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
7. ^ a b "Loreto strike gold in stellar encounter". www.hookhockey.com. 9 May 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
8. ^ a b "Loreto v Railway Union - ESB Womens Irish Senior Cup Final Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 9 May 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
9. ^ "20 things you didn't know about Ireland's hockey heroes". www.irishexaminer.com. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
10. ^ "Meet Ireland's history-making World Cup hockey heroes". www.irishtimes.com. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
11. ^ a b "UCD Ladies Hockey claim Electric Ireland Irish Senior Cup". www.ucd.ie. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
12. ^ a b "Electric Ireland Womens Irish Senior Cup Final Loreto vs UCD". www.iopireland.org. 13 May 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
13. ^ a b "UCD 3-2 Loreto". www.rte.ie. 13 May 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
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16. ^ "unnamed article". Ireland's Saturday Night. 13 April 1957. p. 7.
17. ^ "unnamed article". Ireland's Saturday Night. 12 April 1958. p. 8.
18. ^ "unnamed article". Belfast Newsletter. 11 April 1960. p. 7.
19. ^ "unnamed article". Ireland's Saturday Night. 9 April 1960. p. 9.
20. ^ "WOMEN'S HOCKEY". www.independent.ie. 8 April 2002. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
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22. ^ a b "Loreto take national honours". www.hookhockey.com. 4 May 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
23. ^ "Railway Union look to extend run". www.irishtimes.com. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
24. ^ "Loreto Hockey Club v Railway Union - Electric Ireland Irish Hockey League Women's Final Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
25. ^ "Pegasus smash and grab their second women's IHL title as Loreto rue missed chances". www.hookhockey.com. 12 April 2015. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
26. ^ "Pegasus v Loreto - Irish Hockey League 2015 - Women's Final Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
27. ^ a b "EYHL - About". www.hockey.ie. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
28. ^ "Loreto – Women's EY Hockey League". www.hookhockey.com. 27 September 2018. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
29. ^ "Loreto Win EY Champions Trophy". www.hockey.ie. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
30. ^ "Loreto come from nowhere to take EY Champions Trophy". www.irishtimes.com. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
31. ^ "Joy for Loreto as Harlequins come up short once more". www.irishexaminer.com. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
32. ^ a b "Cup Final woe for Pembroke". www.pembrokewanderers.ie. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
33. ^ a b "Morrow's late double ends Queen's 45-year wait". www.hookhockey.com. 4 April 2016. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
34. ^ "unnamed article". Ireland's Saturday Night. 16 April 1955. p. 6.
35. ^ "Small inspires large Loreto Euro victory". www.hookhockey.com. 13 June 2011. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
36. ^ "Leicester Ladies victorious at home for the European Club Championship Trophy". www.englandhockey.co.uk. 11 June 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
37. ^ "Loreto secures third spot in Europe!". www.loretohockeyclub.ie. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
38. ^ "Loreto confound expectations to land Euro bronze". www.hookhockey.com. 13 June 2014. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
39. ^ "Loreto school and club apply for capital grant". www.hookhockey.com. 4 April 2017. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
40. ^ "Loreto Hockey Club and Loreto High School Beaufort awarded €150,000 Sports Capital Grant". www.loretohockeyclub.ie. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
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43. ^ a b "World Cup Homecoming for Loreto Superstars!". www.loretohockeyclub.ie. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2018.

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Women's Irish Hockey League

Division 1|

* Ards
* Belfast Harlequins
* Cork Harlequins
* Loreto
* Muckross
* Old Alex
* Pegasus
* Pembroke Wanderers
* Railway Union
* UCD

Division 2|

| Pool A|

* Corinthian
* Dublin University
* Greenfields
* Queen's University
* UCC

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Pool B|

* Catholic Institute
* Dungannon
* Lurgan
* Monkstown
* NUIG

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