During the ÔÇ£DKV Junior TrophyÔÇØ, a men's U21 8-nations-tournament held at Warsteiner Hockeypark, M├Ânchengladbach, the FIH awarded the Youth Leadership Certificates for 2007. Twelve young Germans were chosen from 33 applications to receive the certificate.
By Michael Steinmann and Nina Niedermeyer
The twelve participants come from the whole German federation, from all areas in
It was one of the most important criteria made by the responsible jury of the German Hockey Youth, that the awarded young people are involved in hockey more than 2-3 years minimum and that they self dependent on own projects in their clubs. ÔÇ£We want to give the FIH Youth Leadership Certificate to young who take a lot of responsibility and permute their own ideas for a better hockey developmentÔÇØ say the DHB Youth Spokesperson Michael Steinmann.
Every year the participants attend presentations held by several speakers, including DHB Vice President (Youth) Wolfgang Hillmann as well as DHB Youth Spokesperson Michael Steinmann who welcomed the guests. ÔÇ£We have to thank you for the hard and very good work you did in the last years for your involvement in hockey, for your participation in youth hockey activities. You are one of the best; you all are the future of hockey in
Also tournament director Frank van t┬┤Hek welcomes the guest in the seminar room and told about the tasks of his function in a tournament and about hockey in general. He invited the young hockey players, umpires, coaches and organizers for drink together with him a beer in the Sportsbar in the stadium of M├Ânchengladbach in the evening.
After the welcoming speeches Michael von Ameln presented the development of umpires in
Following that report, Wolfgang Hillmann presented strategies for developing better coaches. He presented the new leaders the strategy in the German hockey association of developing better coaching, especially for the youth. How it should be possible to make a seminar based on the need for young hockey players, how to make volunteer young men and women to good coaches and develop the quality of hockey training. Mr Hillmann also talked about the steps from a ÔÇ£lowÔÇØ coach to a ÔÇ£highÔÇØ coach. The last important content of his presentation was the mention of a new webpage for coaching which comprised a couple of new feature like training planning, team organizing, making new digital own practices.
FIH Development Manager Gabrielle van Doorn and
ÔÇ£A lot of the participants I'll see once again anywhere in the world in function for their national association; and it's good feeling to see who the youth leader take the responsibility for their favorite sport.ÔÇØ Michael Steinmann presented together with DHB communications manager (Youth) Stephan Haumann the activities about the ÔÇ£JugendsprecherÔÇØ (Youth Promoters) in the area of local, regional, national and international level and the possibilities they had to realize their own projects.
From the starting time of this development fife years ago until now happened a lot of projects to make hockey more popular, more interest for young people to take an active role in organizing something and take responsibility of their own behavior in what they do for youth hockey.
The both, Michael and Stephan talked report about the ÔÇ£girls' hockey project in Strau├ƒbergÔÇØ (Jer├│n Phillipps and Michael Steinmann presented during the World Youth Hockey Promoter Festival in Club Deportivo Manqu├® hue in Santiago de Chile 2005), the beginning of the actual ÔÇ£JugendsprecherteamÔÇØ. How the system about getting new hockey enthusiast involved in that team of young men and women, you can read about in the following report after the EHF-Youth-Development-Umpiring-Coaching-Forum in
In addition to these talks, 17-year old Mirco Baumhoff, who had attended the Anti-Doping-Camp in
During half time of the
