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Grammar Windsor Hockey Club is based at Auckland Grammar Turf on Normanby Rd, Mt Eden.

 We offer a range of Premier and Championship teams for Senior players and the perfect environment for skill development and enjoyment for Junior players.

Grammar Windsor 2010

In 2010, Grammar Windsor will offer a range of Senior, Youth and Junior teams. The season will commence with trials and musters prior to the season starting.

Premier 1 Women - trials during February 2010. More information

Senior Men & Women - trials/muster on 10 and 17 March 2010. More information

Junior & Youth - registration and muster information will be finalised shortly

If you are new to Grammar Windsor and would like to find out further information or be included in our information emails, please email grammarwindsor@gmail.com. We're always pleased to help.

Details about Senior Training, Senior Teams, Senior Trials and Senior Schedule in 2010 - more information

How Grammar Windsor came about...

A BIT OF HISTORY ABOUT GRAMMAR-WINDSOR HOCKEY CLUB

The Club was formed in 1985 with the amalgamation of two pre-existing clubs.

On the men's side was GRAMMAR OLD BOYS HOCKEY CLUB
On the women's side was WINDSOR LADIES HOCKEY CLUB

GRAMMAR OLD BOYS HOCKEY CLUB was founded by Bill Ahlers and a group of friends, all ex Grammar School pupils. With the assistance of Mr Joe Coop (the Grammar School Master in charge of hockey), and with some Mt Albert Grammar boys who were enlisted, the first Grammar Old Boys team took to the field in 1932, and so the Club started.

The first Secretary was J W Fielder, and his son Clive was playing for the Club up until four years ago. Subscriptions were set at $1.50 a year (very cheap you might think, but an 18 year old working in a warehouse earned the princely sum of $1.05 a week!) The Club had early success winning it's first trophy in 1933 - The Harvard Cup, for coming second on points in the annual Kings Birthday Tournament. Points were awarded not only for hockey, but for running races held in the lunch break. Two years later in 1935 the Club fielded it's first Senior (Premier) team. Many of the sons of original members Doug Anderson, Charlie Dare and Garth Twigden played for the Club until recently.

Original playing strip was Grammar Colours - yellow shirt with blue collar, dark blue shorts with yellow side stripes, and yellow socks with blue bands at the top.

WINDSOR LADIES HOCKEY CLUB began its life in 1935 when it was known as Wesley Ladies Hockey Club because at that time all the players were members of the same Church - Wesley Presbyterian. So they played hockey together on Saturday and went to church together on Sunday. As time went by other players (who weren't church members) joined the Club. Eventually there were not many church-goers left, so the name was changed to Windsor Ladies Hockey Club. Why the name Windsor was chosen is unknown (perhaps because it started with a W). The Club continued and became one of the strongest and most well known Clubs in Auckland. Back then the ladies hockey was played at Melville Park, Epsom on a Saturday afternoon.

Original playing strip was white shirt with bottle green collar, bottle green skirt, white socks with bottle green stripes at the top.

AMALGAMATION.
In 1981 the two Clubs began an "association". They supported each others teams during competitions, and organised mutual social functions together and sometimes travelled away to Tournaments together.

After a two year trial period the two clubs merged formally and took the name GRAMMAR WINDSOR HOCKEY CLUB. At that time the Club rooms were in an old squash court (now demolished) at Hobson Park (now part of Dilworth School). The Treasurer of the first joint committee was Anne Harkness who is still playing and on the committee today.

UNIFORMS today:- After two years of each playing in their original strip it was decided a combined uniform should be adopted. After many meetings the new strip was a modern abstract design of navy, teal and white with a teal collar, teal shorts and white socks. This was the first time that the women's teams played in shorts, but they were not that popular and skirts were reintroduced. Also because the strip was deemed too "similar?" to other clubs uniform we had to wear an alternative strip when laying these clubs. After a few years of this hassle we decided to adopt a strip that no other club had hence the orange shirts and blue shorts/ skirts were adopted.

- Anne Harkness Feb 2006