The Junior Women National Development Programme is designed to first and foremost encourage the development of young female players in Ireland and ultimately represent Ireland in the Junior Women category at European and/or World Championships. Additionally the programme aims to enhance players abilities & understandings and giving them more playing opportunities while creating friendships among young players across Ireland with a common interest in hockey. 

Coaching Team

Head Coach - Steven Ewen - steven.ewen@inlinehockeyireland.org

Assistant Coach - Chloe Rose

Structure of Programme

The coaching team are responsible for working with all the interested players across the season.  The coaching staff will assess players skills and work with them to improve upon all the key inline hockey skills while building a team structure.

Eventually, selections will be made for tournaments and/or European/World Championships. 

If you want to get involved please contact Steven Ewen (Head Coach) by email, steven.ewen@inlinehockeyireland.org.

Player Eligibility

• Initially there will be no restriction on nationality.
  • When attending European or World Championships an Irish passport will be required.
    • For information on whether you are eligible for an Irish Passport through birth, descent or naturalisation please visit, http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/irish_citizenship/
• Players must be a minimum of 11 as on January 1st of the year of the competition and maximum of 18 as on 31st December of the year of competition
• So for 2024 competitions players must be born in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012.
• Players outside of Ireland are eligible for selection 

Costs

As inline hockey or roller sports are not yet recognised by Sport Ireland we receive no financial assistance from the government. This means that all costs have to be funded by ourselves.

The association is committed to financially assisting as much as possible, but we need to be economically sustainable. Therefore unfortunately the majority of costs will fall on the players and their families. However, we will organise fundraising events and source as many sponsors as possible to ensure this cost is kept to a minimum.

All travel and equipment costs for Championships will be paid at cost and payments will be requested soon after final team selection.

Long-Term Goals

1. To attend a World or European Championship by 2025