The European Hockey Federation (EHF) is to provide top European coaches with GamePlanner’s new coaching aid Hockey GamePlanner V1.

The EHF will provide nominated Coach seminar conductors, members of EHF Coaching Committee and the Coach Development Officer of each of EHF Member Associations with a copy of Hockey GamePlanner V1.

The new resource was launched at the recent EHF Youth Coaches seminar in Hannover. 21 coaches received the software and their response was very positive. "Thank you for this seminar. It has started a new urge within for coaching hockey. I had so many new ideas from this seminar, by speaking with the other participants and being introduced to GamePlanner. I just had my weekly club trainings here in Denmark and I used Hockey GamePlanner. It worked 100% for me and the players were delighted" – Martin Olsen.

Anne Ellis Chair of EHF Coaching Committee said "Hockey GamePlanner V1 is an excellent tool for all levels of coach. We hope that this new coaching aid will be a great benefit to many European coaches, especially in our developing nations where coaching resources can be difficult to attain. With a common resource available to all Members, coaches will have the opportunity to exchange experiences and we anticipate that this will encourage the coaching community to develop vital links with each other. This community will then have the opportunity to work with GamePlanner in developing quality coaching resources specifically for hockey and ultimately to improve the quality of coaching to our players, which is a main mission of the EHF Coaching Committee."

Andrew Quick Director of GamePlanner said "GamePlanner is delighted to link with the EHF. We will work closely with EHF Coaching Committee and all the EHF Member Associations to ensure we further develop this resource to benefit coaches across Europe".