Hockey New Zealand is proud to announce the Vantage Black Sticks Ladies’s squad chosen for the 2025 Oceania Cup, happening in Darwin, Australia, from 4–7 September 2025. The occasion can be hosted on the MWT Hockey Centre.
The Oceania Cup is extra than simply regional bragging rights, it delivers computerized qualification to the 2026 FIH Ladies’s World Cup for the winner. With just one spot on supply, each groups can be bringing their finest on this Trans-Tasman basic. For the shedding staff, there can be an extra qualifying match held in February 2026 (location TBC). This qualifying match would be the remaining probability to win a spot on the 2026 FIH Ladies’s World Cup.
The format of Oceania Cup encompasses a high-stakes best-of-three take a look at match collection between New Zealand and Australia. The video games are scheduled as follows:
Sport 1 – 4th September 10.30pm NZT
Sport 2 – sixth September 4.30pm NZT
Sport 3 – seventh September 4.30pm NZT
All matches can be livestreamed and out there to observe free on TVNZ+.
VANTAGE BLACK STICKS WOMEN – OCEANIA CUP 2025 SQUAD
ANNA CROWLEY, BRITT WANG, CASEY CROWLEY, ELLA HYATT-BROWN, EMMA FINDLAY, EMMA RAINEY, GRACE O’HANLON, HANNAH COTTER, HANNAH GRAVENALL, HOLLY PEARSON, HOPE RALPH, JESSIE ANDERSON, JOSEPHINE MURRAY, JULIA GLUYAS, KAITLIN COTTER, OLIVIA SHANNON, RIANA PHO, TESSA JOPP, TESSA REID
Phil Burrows shares his ideas on the staff and the occasion, “I’m excited in regards to the staff we’ve chosen for the Oceania Cup. Whereas we could also be inexperienced in elements, the passion to carry out and the sturdy bonds inside this group give us actual confidence heading into the match. The Oceania Cup is at all times fiercely contested and nicely supported, and I hope our gamers embrace the event and play with freedom. It’s additionally unbelievable to see younger expertise rising, with Josie set to make her debut.”
NOTABLE DEBUTANT: JOSEPHINE MURRAY will make her worldwide debut for New Zealand. Born in Christchurch, Josephine moved to Amsterdam in 2004 and represented the Netherlands on the U21 stage, together with a gold-medal marketing campaign on the 2021 Ladies’s Junior World Cup. Now she brings that have to the VBS Ladies.
