We are delighted to announce our new partnership with Nth Degree Performance (www.nthdegreeperformance.com). Nth Degree provides elite level remote physical preparation support to the best field hockey players, teams and coaches in the world and to those who want to be them in the future. Tom Drowley, founder of Nth Degree Performance, is an Olympic medal winning Hockey Physical Preparation Coach who has led athletes to World Cups, Asian Games, European Championships, Commonwealth Games & Pro Leagues as well as the Olympic Games themselves.
Our partnership's mission is to give hockey players of any age and ability professional guidance, training tips and advice to ensure you not only can get through the season, but play to your potential by maximising your hockey physical performance.
As part of this partnership we are delighted to be giving away two scholarship places to two hockey players looking to take hockey physical performance & game to the next level.
“The destination may be the same, but the journey always has to be different.”
At the top level of hockey, every player is aiming for peak performance — but how they get there needs to be unique. Recognising that truth is one thing. Knowing exactly how your capabilities, demands, and development needs are different — and what to do about it? That’s where it gets tricky.
There are unique challenges to being available as often as possible and playing at the intensity and volume required to grow — both as a player and as part of a team. Previous injuries, your natural physical capabilities, how familiar you are with the level you’re now playing at, and your individual life circumstances all shape your pathway. Yes, we all want to be available — but what you need to do to make that happen will differ from everyone else.
The competitions you play in and the combination of teams you represent throughout the year will also differ. Some of you play for one team with a steady once-a-week league schedule. Others juggle multiple teams and overlapping fixtures. If you play tournaments, you might face five matches in seven days — or eight in 13, like European national teams do at the EuroHockey Championships and the Olympics when aiming for a medal.
Yes, the game is getting faster and faster — but even if the end goal is the same, the way you improve your hockey physical performance will always be unique to you.
And that’s before we even talk about positions. Goalkeepers and outfielders. Centre backs and centre forwards. Every role on the pitch brings its own demands.
Every player has a different starting point, a different context, and different performance requirements. That’s why understanding what you need — and how to train for it — is so important.
If you want to go deeper into why your journey will almost certainly be different to everyone else's this 25-minute presentation dives into how your dream outcomes, current capabilities, and daily behaviours are all connected — and how that understanding forms the foundation of elite preparation.
Through our new partnership with Grays, we’re launching a blog series designed to help players, coaches, and teams better understand what high-quality physical preparation really looks like — and how to tailor it to your game.
Over the course of the season, we’ll be sharing insights usually reserved for international-level athletes, with practical takeaways you can use right away. And for those ready to take things to the next level, we’re excited to be offering two scholarships to experience the full Nth Degree Performance programme in the lead-up to the 25/26 season.
If you’re serious about reaching your potential, stay tuned. Your journey might not look like anyone else’s — and that’s exactly the point.
