Cape Town International Hockey Tournament tips-off this week

This week (19-23 July 2023) the Mother City, Cape Town will play host to 64 teams from the likes of South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom in a total of 244 matches across the week in the Cape Town International Hockey Tournament.

After the SASHOC tournament just two weeks ago, many of the South African teams will be wanting to prove themselves up against their international counterparts in what is arguably the biggest international Under 18 Hockey tournament in the world.

Be sure to stay updated through the SuperSport Schools website at https://supersportschools.com/ or channel 216 on DSTV. 

This year, the tournament has added a new section. Adding to the pre-existing ‘Elite Section’, incepted in 2003, this year will see introduction of an ‘Evolve Section’ comprising two pools of six teams each.

In the ‘Elite Section’, Paarl Gymnasium and SACS, 2022 champions of the Girls and Boys factions, respectively, will seek to defend their titles under the lights of Hartleyvale Astro turf.

Thus far, SACS has blazed a trail of note in the South African Hockey scene with seven of their players chosen to represent the Green-and-Gold (Rogan Stirk, Michael Cowen, Liam Haupt, Ozair Pillai, Josh Opperman and Michael Royden-Turner for SA U18A and Dean Carrick for SA U18B).

Furthermore, in the conclusion of the SASHOC tournament, Rogan Stirk was awarded ‘Goalkeeper of the Tournament’, Michael Cowen as ‘Defender of the tournament’ along with being one of the top scorers and last, but not least, Michael Royden-Turner named ‘Forward of the Tournament’.