Redcliffe Hockey Club to make women’s Premier League grand final debut

Above: Redcliffe and Easts in action earlier in the 2024 hockey season. Image: Andrew Blanchard

Redcliffe Hockey Club will contest its first Brisbane Premier League 1 women's grand final in club history this weekend.

They play Easts in the grand final at the State Hockey Centre in Colmslie on Saturday, September 7 at 3pm.

The final will be played four weeks after the passing of Redcliffe Hockey Club President and women's Premier League 3 coach, Cameron Howes.

Redcliffe finished in second position on the ladder with 33 competition points - Easts finished third on 31 points.

Impressive season

In the semi-finals Redcliffe defeated Easts 4-0 then toppled minor premiers Commercial 3-2.

Redcliffe enters the grand final on the back of an eight-game undefeated run.

The team's last loss was against Easts in June.

Two of Redcliffe's three losses this season have been against Easts.

Redcliffe re-entered Premier League 1 in 2018, having dropped out of the top grade at the end of the 2012 season, and qualified for the semi-finals last season.

The team is coached by Steven Lancaster, a long-time coach of the team.

He coached the side when it was in Division 2 and then into Division 1.

The Redcliffe team includes former Australian Hockeyroos representative Hannah Cullum-Sanders, and goalkeeper Jordan Bliss, a member of Hockey One national league champions Brisbane Blaze.