UCD Ladies' Hockey Club

UCD Ladies' Hockey Club is a women's field hockey club based in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is the women's field hockey club of University College Dublin. In addition to playing in Colours matches with Dublin University and competing in intervarsity tournaments, the club also enter teams in the Women's Irish Hockey League, the Irish Senior Cup and the Irish Junior Cup. During the 2010s UCD has emerged as one Ireland's strongest teams in women's field hockey, winning three Irish Hockey League titles and four Irish Senior Cups. UCD has also represented Ireland in the 2015 and 2018 EuroHockey Club Champions Cups.[4][5]

UCD Ladies' Hockey Club
UnionHockey Ireland
Full nameUniversity College Dublin
Ladies' Hockey Club
GroundNational Hockey Stadium [1]
University College Dublin
Stillorgan Road
Belfield
Dublin 4 [2]
CoachMiles Warren [3]
Websitewww.ucd.ie
LeagueWomen's Irish Hockey League

History

Irish Senior Cup

UCD first won the Irish Senior Cup in 1951, captained by Patricia Horne.[6][7][8] They then had to wait for fifty eight years before winning their second cup. In 2009 Grace O'Flanagan kept goal for UCD as they defeated Pegasus 4–1.[9][10] With a team that included Dora Gorman, Chloe Watkins, Deirdre Duke and Anna O'Flanagan, UCD won the cup for a third time in 2012, after defeating Loreto 3–2 in the final.[11][12][13][14][15] UCD where finalists again in 2013 but this time they lost 3–2 to Railway Union. The UCD squad for the final included Chloe Watkins, Anna O'Flanagan, Emily Beatty, Nicola Evans and Katie Mullan.[16] Nicola Evans and Anna O'Flanagan both scored as UCD defeated Pembroke Wanderers 2–0 in the 2014 final. Katie Mullan, Emily Beatty, Gillian Pinder and Deirdre Duke were also members of the winning UCD team.[1] In the 2017 final, Duke scored the winner as UCD defeated Cork Harlequins 1–0. Duke also captained the team which also featured Gillian Pinder, Elena Tice and Katie Mullan.[8][17][18] Duke was again captain when UCD retained the cup in 2018 team after they defeated Pegasus 4–0. Elena Tice and Katie Mullan were also in the team.[19][20]

Year Winner Runner-up Notes
1951 UCD 2 1 Victorians after extra time [7]
2009 UCD 4 1 Pegasus [9][10]
2011–12 UCD 3 2 Loreto [12][13][14][15]
2012–13 Railway Union 3 2 UCD [16]
2013–14 UCD 2 0 Pembroke Wanderers [1][21]
2016–17 UCD 1 0 Cork Harlequins [8][17][18]
2017–18 UCD 4 0 Pegasus [19][20]

Women's Irish Hockey League

UCD won their first Women's Irish Hockey League title in 2013–14 with a squad that included Katie Mullan, Gillian Pinder, Deirdre Duke, Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan and Emily Beatty. The 2013–14 season saw UCD complete a treble. In addition to winning the national league title UCD also won the Women's Leinster Division One title and the Irish Senior Cup.[22][23][24] The 2016–17 season saw UCD claim the league title in dramatic fashion as Elena Tice scored two penalty corners to inflict a first league defeat on Hermes-Monkstown. The result saw UCD overtake Hermes-Monkstown on the final day of the campaign. The result also saw UCD win their second trophy in six days, adding to the Irish Senior Cup.[3][25] UCD subsequently completed a treble when they also won the EY Champions Trophy after defeating Hermes-Monkstown in a penalty shoot-out.[26][27][28] The 2017–18 season saw UCD retain the league title. Having already won the Irish Senior Cup, UCD also completed a double.[29]

Irish Junior Cup

UCD's second team enter the Irish Junior Cup. They have been finalists on two occasions, winning the cup in 2014 and finishing as runners-up in 2018.[30][31]

Year Winner Runner-up Notes
2014 UCD 3 1 Pembroke Wanderers [30]
2018 Railway Union 2 0 UCD [31]

Chilean Cup

The Chilean Cup is a tournament featuring ladies' field hockey teams representing universities from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. UCD have been regular finalists and winners.

Recent appearances
Year Winner Runner-up Notes
2003 UCD [32]
2004 UCD [32]
2005 UCD 5 2 QUB [32]
2007 UCC 2 1 UCD [33]
2009 Ulster Elks UCD [34]
2010 UCD 2 0 Ulster Elks [35]
2011 UCD [36]
2012 UCD 4 0 QUB [36]
2013 UCD 3 1 Ulster Elks [37]
2014 Ulster Elks 8 3 UCD [38]
2015 UCD [39]
2016 UCD 6 1 QUB [40]
2017 UCD 6 1 QUB [39]

EuroHockey Club Champions Cup

UCD has also represented Ireland in the 2015 [41][42][43] and 2018 EuroHockey Club Champions Cups.[44][45][46][47]

2015 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
Quarter-finals
3 April
12:45
Rot-Weiss Köln 2 – 1 UCD
Gablać  31'
Stöckel  37'		 [48] O'Flanagan  48'
Umpires:
Hannah Sanders (ENG)
Ymkje van Slooten (NED)
Fifth to eighth place classification
5 April
13:00
UCD 3 – 2 Canterbury Ladies
Watkins  11'
Beatty  18'
Duke  29'		 [41] Triggs  8'
Wilson  36'
Umpires:
Vilma Bagdanskiene (LTU)
Laurine Delforge (BEL)
Fifth and sixth place
6 April
11:15
Surbiton HC 4 – 1 UCD
Herbert  22'
Twigg  41'
King  55'
Hunter  59'		 [42] Mullan  52'
Umpires:
Gabriele Schmitz (GER)
Alwiene Sterk (NED)

2018 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
Quarter-finals
17 May 2018
14:30
Amsterdam 8–0 UCD
Jonker  1', 49'
Müller  9'
Vega  18', 33', 50'
Verschoor  20', 57'		 Report
Umpires:
Gabriele Schmitz (GER)
Ivona Makar (CRO)
Fifth to eighth place classification
18 May 2018
16:45
UCD 1–2 Mannheimer HC
Clarke  21' Report Förter  23'
Pohl  54'
Umpires:
Anne van den Bosch (BEL)
Hannah Harrison (ENG)
Seventh and eighth place
20 May 2018
09:30
UCD 0–4 Surbiton
Report Ansley  35'
Twigg  39'
Martin  56'
Middleton  60'
Umpires:
Gabriele Schmitz (GER)
Anne van den Bosch (BEL)

Notable players
Ireland internationals

When the Ireland women's national field hockey team won the silver medal at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, the squad included nine current or former UCD players. Deirdre Duke, Elena Tice and Katie Mullan were all members of UCD's 2017–18 squad. Gillian Pinder, Chloe Watkins, Grace O'Flanagan, Emily Beatty, Anna O'Flanagan and Nicola Evans were all UCD graduates.[49][50][51]

Republic of Ireland association football international
Ireland women's rugby union international

Source:[11][49][50][51][36]

Honours

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