Athlete Nominations for the 2023 FHBC Provincial Program Talent ID, Athlete Evaluation and Team Selection are now being accepted. Athletes MUST be nominated by a coach.

Nomination deadline is January 31, 2023.

Note that Targeted Athletes have an exemption from this nomination process. Targeted Athletes have been notified of their status.

More information and access to the form here.

Field Hockey BC is now accepting applications for various coach roles within our Provincial Program. All teams will compete at the 2023 National Championships in Ontario this summer.

Applicants will need:

- To be available to attend the respective trials, training sessions, and entire Championships

- To meet FHC’s mandatory Safe Sport and minimum certification requirements

Click here for more information.

The 2023 Field Hockey BC Annual General Meeting will be hosted in a virtual capacity and take place on February 8, at 6:30pm.

The following four FHBC Board of Director positions are up for election:

1. Vice-President

2. Domestic Director

3. Marketing Director

4. Athlete Program Director

For more information, montion and nomination forms, click here.

Lynne Beecroft is retired. Let that sink in.

After 39 years at the helm of the University of Victoria Vikes women’s field hockey program, the 15-time national championship head coach will no longer patrol the sidelines of the field hockey pitch off Gabriola Road. Her roots, however, will continue to nourish the next crop of Vikes though the newly created Lynne ‘Buzz” Beecroft Student Award.

To celebrate the legacy of coach Buzz, an anonymous donor has agreed to match funds raised up to $100,000 until March 2023.

Beecroft’s legacy is often summed up by the numbers. She has amassed 34 national medals (15 of which are gold), coached nearly 40 athletes who have gone on to represent Canada and over 70 All-Canadians, finishing with an impressive overall coaching record of 340-98-89 (wins-losses-ties) but the real legacy lies in that which she has left with her athletes, her colleagues, the community and the sport.

Since 1985, coach Buzz has instilled an annual team theme to bring her team together. Her philosophy of taking care of the people before the athlete has given rise to champions on and off the field as students, as athletes and as people. Through her themes, Buzz’s teams have learned to grow through challenges, become leaders in their own right and have learned how to be part of something bigger than a team.

Decades of Vikes field hockey players are linked through the team themes and values with those shared experiences building a strong core of alumni. In recent seasons, it has been special to see championship-winning alumnae, coached by Buzz in the 1980s on the sideline cheering on their daughters as current Vikes. The Vikes women’s field hockey experience comes with a prestigious “you had to be there” stature that resonates through decades and now, generations. Those values and lessons often reverberate long after athletes graduate UVic.

As proud as Buzz is to say she has amassed numerous medals and coached athletes of the year and Olympians, she is just as proud of how the program has helped build community contributors. Contributors that include the veterinarians, teachers, principles, engineers, stay-at-home moms or a soon-to-be total of 15 medical doctors.

“There’s a saying that when a student is ready, a teacher will come. Obviously, I was going to be the teacher as I was ready to make a difference in the lives of student athletes under my tutelage,” reflected Buzz when describing her transition to coaching at UVic. “I couldn’t have been more wrong. Upon reflection, I realize now that it has always been my athletes who have been the teachers and me the student.”