Earlier than the Perth Thundersticks journey to Canberra to kickstart their 2024 Liberty Hockey One marketing campaign, the groups have turned to Olympians and skilled gamers to guide the group.
Kookaburras Jake Harvie and Tom Wickham have been chosen to guide the Males’s staff as co-captains, whereas Hockeyroo Penny Squibb was chosen because the Girls’s captain.
Harvie takes on a management position after beforehand that includes in each season of Hockey One in its present type in addition to making his Olympic debut in Paris in August.
He stated he felt deeply grateful and honoured to get the chance to be a frontrunner of the Perth Thundersticks.
“Having grown up idolising many profitable Perth Thundersticks groups and gamers it’s a dream come true for me to search out myself on this place,” Harvie stated.
“Hockey has all the time held a particular place in my life, and I don’t take this chance and accountability evenly.
“I stay up for empowering the enjoying group and inspiring the people inside it to try in direction of fulfilling their potential as athletes and as males.
“It’s all the time about extra than simply hockey and I stay up for contributing to the Perth Thundersticks household like the various which have come earlier than me.”
Like Harvie, Wickham steps into the co-captain position after that includes all through every season of Hockey One, that includes for the Kookaburras through the Paris 2024 Olympics, and profitable the Stiles Electrical Premier League Males’s Premiership with UWA.
Wickham echoed Harvie’s sentiments, describing the chance to guide the squad as “an honour and a privilege” that he doesn’t take evenly.
“We’re all leaders in our personal distinctive approach,” he stated.
“Tapping into the collective affect throughout the staff will give us the best alternative to go far this season and past.
“I’ll lead with my strengths and lean on others in areas of their strengths.
“This can be a younger group of males, nice younger males.
“As I stated to the group when Jake and I have been introduced as Co-Captains – I’ll shoulder the accountability and do my finest to guide this staff, all I ask in return is that they do the identical.”
Squibb has lengthy been thought of a frontrunner for the Perth Thundersticks Girls’s staff, getting into the captain’s position off the again of creating her Olympic debut with the Hockeyroos in Paris.
She stated it felt particular to have been voted to tackle the captaincy position by her friends.
“To be voted captain by your friends is a pleasant factor as a result of it’s good to be recognised,” she stated.
“Inside our group, we’ve all obtained management qualities, and we thrive on that, and we’re searching for everybody to convey their very own qualities.
“I’m undoubtedly wanting ahead to serving to everybody convey out their strengths and have a very good season.”
Becoming a member of Harvie and Wickham within the Males’s Management Group is fellow Kookaburra James Collins and Nationwide Improvement Squad member Tom Harvie.
Flanking Squibb as Vice-Captains for the Girls’s staff are former South African worldwide Liné Malan, and Stiles Electrical Premier League Girls’s premiership participant Candyce Peacock.
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