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HOCKEY FIXTURES
Maritzburg College vs DHS
20 May 2017
HOCKEY
Team Opponents Venue Time Coach
1st DHS 1st Pape’s Astro 10:45 B Swart
5th DHS 2nd AB Jackson 09:00 C Barnsley
16A DHS Pape’s Astro 09:30 R Jones
16C DHS 16B AB Jackson 10:00 K Pillay
14A DHS Pape’s Astro 08:30 K Emerson
A brief history of hockey at Maritzburg College
Hockey has only had official sport status at
Maritzburg College since 1974. Since then the
game has grown in stature with College being the
first school in South Africa to lay an artificial
surface on its premises. The school has now
become one of the leading hockey schools in the
country.
cap for the SA Men’s Hockey Team in January 2016
when he played against Ireland in Cape Town.
Tyson Dlungwana (2015) earned his first cap in
February 2016 when he played against Germany in
Cape Town in the Summer Series. In 2017, Siya
Nolutshungu became the latest Old Collegian
(2013) to earn his first international cap for SA
against Belgium in Cape Town.
The school has now produced 90 SA Schools Caps
with 81 of these having been earned since 1980.
In the recent dual Summer Series in Cape Town,
four
OCs
represented
SA,
namely
Siya
Nolutshungu, Taine Paton, Tevin Kok and Tyson
Dlungwana. At the end of April, the Mens’ IPT was
held in JHB with the KZN Raiders team lifting the
trophy with OCs Andrew Manson and Kewan
Harries part of that squad. A number of other Old
Boys represented various other provinces during
the tournament.
Since 1951,