Friday, August 7 – Dublin: Hockey Eire is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Partridge as its new Excessive Efficiency Director, following an in depth worldwide recruitment course of.
Andrew joins Hockey Eire with greater than 13 years’ expertise main high-performance programmes throughout Olympic, Paralympic and worldwide staff sport environments. He’ll take up the function instantly and succeeds Lisa Jacob, who departed Hockey Eire in June to pursue a brand new alternative exterior the organisation.
Andrew brings a wealth of strategic and operational experience, most lately serving as Head of Efficiency at Ice Hockey UK, the place he led Nice Britain’s males’s, girls’s and junior worldwide programmes. Throughout his profession he has efficiently designed and carried out nationwide efficiency methods, managed multidisciplinary efficiency groups, developed athlete pathways and coached elite performers throughout a spread of Olympic and Paralympic sports activities. He has additionally held senior management roles with Boccia England, Archery GB and Archery Northern Eire, whereas sustaining a powerful connection to hockey by way of teaching positions with Beeston Hockey Membership and a number of other main UK universities. His expertise contains managing efficiency techniques and dealing intently with nationwide governing our bodies, institutes of sport and worldwide stakeholders to construct sustainable high-performance techniques.
The appointment comes at an thrilling time for Hockey Eire, with each the Irish Males’s and Girls’s Senior Groups having secured qualification for the 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup, whereas the organisation continues to strengthen its athlete pathway and construct in the direction of future worldwide success.
Richard Fahey, CEO of Hockey Eire, stated:
“We’re delighted to welcome Andrew to Hockey Eire following a complete recruitment course of that attracted an exceptionally robust subject of candidates.
Andrew impressed all through the method together with his strategic imaginative and prescient, his confirmed means to construct high-performing environments and his ardour for athlete and coach improvement. He has a observe file of main profitable high-performance techniques and growing sustainable pathways that ship long-term success.
As we put together for the FIH Hockey World Cup and proceed our journey in the direction of future Olympic qualification, Andrew’s management, expertise and collaborative strategy will probably be invaluable in serving to us realise our ambitions for Irish hockey.”
Talking following his appointment, Andrew Partridge stated:
“I’m honoured to hitch Hockey Eire at such an thrilling time for the game. Irish hockey has established robust foundations and is demonstrating its means to compete efficiently on the worldwide stage.
I sit up for working intently with our athletes, coaches, workers, volunteers and stakeholders to construct an built-in high-performance system that helps sustainable success. My focus will probably be on creating an setting the place folks can thrive, growing world-class teaching and athlete assist, and guaranteeing our efficiency programmes proceed to evolve as we pursue success at World Cups, European Championships and Olympic Video games.
I’m excited to start working with everybody throughout Hockey Eire to assist realise the organisation’s ambitions.”
Andrew will probably be answerable for main Hockey Eire’s Excessive Efficiency Programme throughout the lads’s and ladies’s nationwide groups and athlete pathway, overseeing efficiency planning, teaching, athlete improvement and multidisciplinary assist companies as Hockey Eire continues to pursue success on the world stage.
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