A culture of excellence
High Performance Achievement
Our athlete-centred approach prioritises a team/player holistic development, leading sportsmen and women through a powerful platform for high-performance achievement across all aspects of life.
Senior Hockey
WHY RIVERSIDE?
Community – Player – Coach – Performance
First established in 1992. Our club has grown immensely since its inception and the club offers top-tier facilities to its members including two artificial turf pitches.
Riverside Hockey Club’s Senior Hockey program caters to players seeking to compete at a high level while fostering a sense of community and sportsmanship. With a focus on advanced skill development and tactical training, our program prepares athletes for competitive play and prestigious events such as the Belgotex Elite Club Challenge.
Our senior teams benefit from experienced coaching, state-of-the-art facilities, and a supportive environment that values integrity, respect, and excellence.
Riverside Hockey Club is NOT simply a hockey club. It’s a healthy community environment with a high-performance culture that requires an ethical code of conduct.
- A community high-performance club.
- We develop athletes
- An institution, that provides a powerful platform
- We develop skills & education through sport
- We facilitate schools, families, underprivileged communities with a healthy environment to learn, outside of school
- We act as a catalyst to produce young men and women with a high-performance culture across all aspects of life
- Our coaching improves mental skills sport and competition response.
Riverside Hockey Club
Guiding principles
Restoring sportsmanship and civility to the sports arena in South Africa must become a shared concern. Riverside hockey club has identified a need to educate both coaches and players from a grassroots level at schools, and the club environment. High-performance core beliefs and principles provide that opportunity, emphasising the development of both physical and mental discipline, as well as a focus on self-improvement and personal growth which ultimately benefits teamwork, whether on or off the field.
Respect
All players are expected to display proper respect and courtesy, and maintain civility toward opposing coaches and athletes, game officials and spectators at all times. Respect the game and live up to our own highest personal standard of sportsmanship
Commitment
Commitment or dedication, come from the desire to achieve success. RHC members will be given an opportunity to identify their personal goals that will guide the path to excel at the highest levels of performance.
Humility
Failure is part of the game and good sportsmanship does not use the occasion to make excuses or blame. Coaches and Members will maintain composure, learn and prepare for the next game.
Discipline
Sportsmanship dictates self-control and respect. There is no place for taunting, embarrassing or humiliating either a club member, opponent or game official. Our members will be coached to exercises self-control, a virtue of Sportsmanship.
Responsibility
Players as well as designated leaders bear the responsibility of arriving for practice. Leaders by design teach the value of sporting conduct in both word and deed to members.
Honour
The responsibility to demonstrate and develop character and sportsmanship should never be subordinated to the desire to win. RHC values the honourable pursuit of victory, rather than the outcome itself.
Excellence
Personal mastery, increased skill development, as well as performing to the best of their abilities are the hallmarks of good sportsmanship. Success relates to the effort put into realising one’s personal potential.
Teamwork
Behaviour reflects on the team in general. Moreover, a team player does not condone unsportsmanlike conduct from teammates. Grit and developing team confidence in the midst of competition is a requirement.
