Wood set to star for Wales in World Hockey Cup

STRATFORD Hockey Club stalwart Nigel Wood is preparing to depart for Australia to take part in the Grand Masters World Hockey Cup.

Wood will play for the Wales over-60s side, last representing his country as a schoolboy before embarking on his medical career.

Wales are drawn in the ‘group of death’ where they will face Germany, Spain and hosts Australia.

Wood said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for me to highlight the fact that you are never too old to exercise.

“Masters hockey teams now range up to over-80s, so I’m just a boy really!”

Meanwhile, Jean Scott-Miller, who is a hockey coach at King Edward VI School, has just returned from Australia having captained the England Ladies’ Over-60s team to a silver medal.

After winning five out of six matches, Scott-Miller and her team went down 1-0 to New Zealand in the final, losing out to a late goal.

“It was heartbreaking to lose in the dying minutes, but we gave everything and beating Australia, who took bronze, was very pleasing,” she said.