Alan Lints is a former New Zealand hockey representative (1986-1988) and also served as the National Development Manager with NZ Hockey from 1996-2001. In 2002 he became the Welsh Hockey Performance Director until 2006, before returning from overseas to New Zealand.

Alan is the Co-owner and Co-founder of Educare Early Learning Centres.

For Angela getting involved in hockey in 2006 was an extension of being part of living in the small rural community of the Rangitikei, it was a good way to meet people and be part of the sport her boys play.

She lives in Marton where John and her have a Forestry Business. They are very proud sponsors of hockey from Community level through to Secondary Schools, Club, Central and Black Sticks. Our focus has always been trying to promote sport as we see the benefits of young people playing a team sport and this  lead us to start up a Hockey Academy in 2018 for a group of students to attend Feilding High School and play in their well supported Hockey development programme.

She enjoys organising fundraising events helping to bring people together and raise the profile of hockey in the area.

Sarah’s interest started in hockey when her daughter started playing the game in 2009. Since then she has managed a number of teams including at NHL, U18’s, U15’s, U13’s and school and club teams. She is passionate about the role sport can play in youth development in our community. After a long period in the textile industry Sarah has served on the board of School and community foundations.

Tony was first introduced to hockey as a child but gave the game away when he went overseas. He married into an active Northland hockey family in 2001 where a number of the family members have represented New Zealand at different age levels over the years. He picked up the sport again at that time and has been playing ever since. He is also currently involved with the Northland Hockey Association as their Financial Adviser. Away from hockey, Tony is a Chartered Accountant and is a Director of a local firm in Whangarei. He is also on the Board of Hockey NZ and a number of other organisations.

Hockey has been part of Dave’s life for almost 40 years, having represented Hutt Valley, Wellington, NZ University and Auckland. He has vast experience coaching and managing club and representative teams at a junior and youth level. Dave is National Director of Valuation and Advisory Services at Jones Lang LaSalle, is a Registered Valuer and also on Auckland Hockey’s Board.

Currently 12 months into a new role as Head of Commercial Advice at Plunket, looking after property, procurement and other commercial relationships.  The primary focus of this role is to enable the organisation to achieve better outcomes from our property portfolio and our supply partners. I spent most of the last 13 years with Heineken New Zealand in various roles including Regional Manager, Head of Retail and finally National Hospitality Development Manager where I was involved in developing some of New Zealand’s best bars. Outside of work, I am heavily involved with family and sport, acting as a board member of the New Zealand Hockey Foundation, The NHS Trust as well as coaching a P1 hockey team, school touch rugby teams and forming my own rugby club. Other governance roles include being a board member of Wings over Wairarapa and Wellington Hockey.