Wingham hockey player Jaime Hemmingway has been accepted onto the 2017 Hockey NSW Arrows Team.
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The selection to one of the Australian Hockey League’s most successful teams came as a shock to the 18-year-old Wingham High School student.
“She went for the experience,” said mum Heather of Jaime’s participation in the Canberra Challenge in August which served as selection trials for the Arrows.
The Arrows team lineup was announced via the NSW Hockey website a few days after Jaime returned to Wingham.
“She’s really excited to have been selected,” said Heather.
“It was a real surprise.”
Jaime has already started training in Sydney and will compete with the Arrows for the first time at the 2017 AHL and U13 Australian Carnival in Perth from September 28 – October 8.
Australia’s best hockey players will be competing including players from the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos as state teams go head to head.
Jaime has long been on the local radar as an athlete to watch representing Hunter region and her school in both hockey and touch football.
Earlier this year she represented NSW at the under 18s hockey championships in Hobart, taking home a silver medal and in May was named in the NSW Combined High School girl's hockey team.
She started playing hockey at aged six in the Wingham under 9s team and has played for Wingham ever since.
Last Saturday Jaime was on the winning A-grade women’s team who beat the Sharks in the grand final.
“She’s very dedicated with her training and her studies,” said Heather.
As a year 12 student Jaime has been juggling her hockey career with her school studies all year.
She will return from Perth in time to do her HSC.