ACADEMY Success & Testimonials

John Bennett

Chose Oaklands College over repton private school due to the attention of details of hockey training, especially When it came to small group and one-to-one training. I learnt so much, thanks to our Head coach Simon Archer. He worked with me to achieve individually game and my understanding, shortly after joining the academy I gained a first team squad place. It was amazing opportunity & experience to live on site and I have Hockey on my doorstep. In my time at Oaklands, I was Residential student, represented Wales U16s & U18s, played in the Futures cup twice, I studied BTEC business. Now at Cardiff University, I have continued to process and have been selected to play for Wales U21s.

Tom Allen

A Residential student studied sport exercise science, when I arrived at Oaklands I was dropped from wales u16s, but with the quality of training I got at the hockey academy, I represented England Colleges boys & then later that year, I represented Wales U18s in my final year. Now at the University of Durham. Study in a continuation of sport exercise science at University. I never thought I would get in to this uni. So far I’m loving it. I really enjoy my time and course at Oaklands. I would recommend it to others, as long as you’re willing to put the work in, as this course isn’t all coursework and there’s an exam at the end.