Thursday, August 28, 2008

McKinnon steps down

Mick McKinnon today announced his resignation as Coach Development Manager for the IHA as he will be taking up the position of a special needs teacher and hockey coach at The King’s Hospital School in Palmerstown.

McKinnon was appointed as Irish Hockey’s first Coach Development Manager in January 2007 and led the development of the ‘Coaching Pathway’ including the introduction of numerous coaching awards and the expansion of the sport ’s tutor base. He will finish in his present role on Friday 19th September.

“Mick McKinnon has had a huge impact on Coach Education during his time at Irish Hockey. His determination and hard work has developed our coaching pathway to an exciting point and he is responsible for Irish Hockey’s extensive coach education programme.” said National Development Officer Fiona Mills today.

“Whilst we are sorry to see Mick leave Irish Hockey, we look forward to continuing our relationship with him in his capacity as a hockey coach and tutor. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Association to wish Mick the very best for all of his future endeavours.”

“I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in the association and I feel we have made great strides in the coach education field in the past 20 months, including the significant increase in our tutor pool and the establishment of a Level Three Award.” said McKinnon.

“I would like to wish everybody at the IHA all the best for the future; they have been a pleasure to work with. I still intend to work within Irish hockey circles continuing my work with the national U15’s and in a voluntary capacity.”

Mills revealed that the IHA will be seeking an immediate replacement for McKinnon, as the Association continues its drive to develop Hockey Coaching in Ireland .

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Season less than a month away now.Do you have team profiles/ins and outs/predictions for the coming league season

Stephen Findlater said...

Yes, definitely. will be putting together men's and women's previews to come out the week of the Neville Cup 1st round.

Predictions will be there again after my spectacular failure, getting nine out of ten predictions wrong!

Anonymous said...

can anyone tell me what's happened in pembroke women's?apparently about 8 of the first team have left with a load heading off to bray??

Stephen Findlater said...

From my information to date, Mary Goode and Stephanie Hall are moving to Bray but I'll confirm when I get more on this...

Anonymous said...

Findlater! Can u update the blog with some new interesting reads, i keep checking every day for some fresh new gossip but continue to be dissapointed! Your doing a great job

Anonymous said...

ive heard that pembroke have lost 8 1st team players from last season!

Anonymous said...

yeh they have but theyve been replaced by eight members of the German olympic gold medal team,so no need to worry,things will still run smoothly

Anonymous said...

Well name them then!

Anonymous said...

He did a great job!