Competitions

The British Octopush Association aims to: -

Include underwater hockey competitions for all members, at all levels.
Provide a competitive national structure.
Make and enforce the rules and regulations

It’s objectives are: -

Governance of all Underwater Hockey competitions.
Local, regional and national competitions run on an annual basis.
Tournaments increasingly inclusive across the range of players representative of the membership.

Major competitions take place at Ponds Forge Olympic Pool. Where necessary, teams are seeded according to their finishing place in the last competition. Both open and ladies teams play at many of these underwater hockey competitions.

BOA National Championships

These are run from April to June each year and feature teams from Plymouth to the Orkney Islands. There are preliminaries, qualifiers & finals run on separate weekends.

BOA Nautilus National League

This another national level competition which attracts teams from all over GB. The number of divisions depends upon the number of underwater hockey teams that enter, but is usually at least 5.

BOA Ladies National Championships

These are run from April to June each year and feature teams from Plymouth to the Orkney Islands. There are preliminaries, qualifiers & finals run on separate weekends

BOA Junior National Championships

These are split into Under-13’s and Under-16’s. Age limits are based on age on September 1^st, and therefore follows the school year.

Student Nationals

This features University teams and is hosted by a different university each year.

Other Competitions

Competitions are run locally by many underwater hockey clubs and attract teams in many categories.

Some dates for your diary:

	2012	2013	2014	2015
Ladies Nationals	Event has passed	23rd March	TBC	TBC
Qualifiers	Event has passed	20th/21st April	TBC	TBC
Finals	Event has passed	29th June	28th June	27th June
Nautilus	10th/11th November	2nd/3rd November	8th/9th November	7th/8th November

For further details please see the underwater hockey events section, or contact the organiser

via the 'Events Page' or the Competitions Manager.

Updated by Andrew Stillwell on 21/07/12