Girls Hockey Round Up, What a Season! – Dec 2025
Our last week of Hockey matches just kept the smiles coming, with more highlights to celebrate. In this last report of the season, we share stats, celebrate our Year 13 players and highlight some of the last matches played, including a shout out to another team ending their season unbeaten!
The Stats
Over the course of the Michaelmas Term our girls’ teams played 85 full length matches in the respective age groups. These delivered 50 wins, 14 draws and only 21 losses – quite a feat from our players. 196 goals were scored; only 94 conceded. Our amazing goalkeepers kept 32 clean sheets and we had 81 different goal scorers from Year 7 to 13! Five hattricks were scored over the season, and the top goal scorer in 11-a-side Hockey (Years 9 to 13) was Year 10’s Eirran with 10 goals for the U15A team over the season. For Years 7 to 8, playing 7-a-side, it was Year 7’s Issy and Sofia with 13 goals each! Two teams remained unbeaten over the course of the season in their Wednesday matches, the Junior 1s and Junior 2s.
Apart from our usual midweek matches, we competed in four County Cup Competitions. Our teams did amazingly well in these England Hockey Area Competitions. The 1st team, Junior 1s and U12 teams competed at the U18, U13 and U13 Regional Finals respectively after finishing in the top two in the County. We have had several players selected for Suffolk and Year 10’s Jemima B has been selected for the East Talent Academy.
What a season it has been!
Woodbridge Junior Teams
Our Junior teams finished their season on a high with a clean sweep over Langley with our Junior 2s, 3s and 4s taking on the U13A, B and C teams from Langley.
The Junior 2s started slowly after their last journey to Magpies but once they got going there was no stopping them. A win and another three goals scored (two from Year 8’s Ava and one from Year 7’s Chloe Y) to end the season unbeaten, with six wins and two draws, scoring 22 goals in the process and conceding just four!
The Junior 3s stormed to another convincing win, scoring three goals while Year 8’s Kitty kept a clean sheet. Year 8’s Elodie and Tati scored our goals. The Junior 4s won by the same scoreline, with Year 8’s Ellie scoring a hattrick of goals.
A pretty impressive last day of Junior matches – three wins, nine goals with only one against.
Well done to the players who didn’t play matches but continued to work hard on their technical ability in their games lesson and were pretty impressive mastering 3D attacking skills.
Woodbridge U15B vs RHS
The U15B team showed real fight and character in their last match of the season against RHS. Coming back from behind twice to draw the game was pretty impressive especially considering the awful weather conditions. The heart and desire shown by the team was a real highlight. Year 10’s Sophia scored both goals and Year 10’s captain, Isobel was named Player-of-the-Match.
Woodbridge Senior Teams
The last word goes to our senior teams.
The 1st team ended things with a good, but perhaps sometimes frustrating match against Langley. The team had to learn to adjust to these frustrations and just play. The Langley keeper kept everything out in the first half, until Year 12’s Bea stepped up to take a penalty stroke, which she converted well to send Woodbridge ahead. At the end of the first half Woodbridge had to deal with a period of sustained pressure from Langley which spurred the team on to be tougher and more clinical to use their chances and take the game away from the opposition in the second half. Player-of-the-Match, Bea, again was influential with line-breaking carries to get into the D and make chances, and ultimately goals. The first of these came with the perfect pass which Year 13’s Lara deflected well, before Bea scored the third in a clinical finish after a good attacking carry. Year 13’s Eve was influential at the back as well as getting involved in attacking areas and having shots at goal. A fun and convincing win to end a very positive season for the team.
The 3rd team hosted RHS for their last match. It was a hotly contested game with both goalkeepers being kept busy. It was great to see Year 11’s Eva back in goal and making such an impact in the game. Year 12’s Valentina scored when she found herself in the D, following an amazing solo run which saw the line to goal open up. The game ended in a draw, but hockey, sportsmanship and fun together were the real winners. Thanks to Mrs Scahill and this group of players for their commitment to this Hockey season.
Lastly, our 2nd team got two wins from two matches to cap off a great second half of the season and wrap things up with a last-minute winner. On Tuesday last week they faced Langley School and outplayed them with a very convincing win, showing the experience our group has. Goals were spread round and scored by Year 13’s Phoebe D (2), Lily G, Georgia G and Year 11’s Frankie (2) and Amelia. Player-of-the-Match was Lily G in her last match for School.
The 2nd team also featured in the last match of the season, against Fram College 3s under lights on the astro, last Thursday. This was a real nailbiter and left everyone on the edge of their seat until the very end. Many staff watching complemented the team on the constructive and attractive hockey they played. Year 11’s Amelia scored the opening goal before Fram College drew level. Woodbridge pushed for the winner in the closing stages with Year 13’s combining well. With time ticking away, the team made an overload count, getting numbers in the D, where Year 13’s Phoebe R scored the winning goal. A fitting end and fitting celebrations to draw the season to a close. Player-of-the-Match was awarded to Year 12’s Scarlett.
Last Competitive Match for Year 13s
It’s with a sad and happy heart that we saw our Year 13 play their last competitive matches for School – happy because of the players and people they have become, and sad because we don’t want it to be over. We are grateful to each of these girls who have given so much to Hockey at School, some from Year 3 when they started playing in matches, some playing their first matches in Year 7, some from Year 12 when they joined 6th Form and some making a return to hockey in their final year of School. Thank you: Lara, Nancy, Georgia P, Eve, Sophie, Phoebe D, Georgia G, Tabby, Lily C, Lily G, Phoebe R, Jazzie, Rose, Emily, Martha, Juno, Tilly and Libby! Thanks for fun memories and so many from this season. You will be missed!
