Introducing Emile Smith, our head mens coach for 2022 at PHSOB Hockey Club !

Emile developed his hockey knowledge at Sporting Club Parkside and later at Bohemians Hockey Club, where he also achieved Honours for Hockey at Selborne College at school level.

Later, Emile represented TUT and TUKS, HDM (in Holland) in The Hague for a season.

In total he played 149 games for South Africa with 77 goals, including 2 Commonwealth Games (1998-2002) and 2 Olympic Games:  Athens 2004 (as vice captain) and Beijing 2008, the Hockey World Cup in Malaysia and many others.

He has coached Tuks Women 1st team, Quins Women 1st team, Quins Men 1st team, TUT men 1st team and acted as an assistant coach at Galaxy league and has been active in the sport for over 15 years.

He had served as the high performance director for SAHA 2015 to 2017 and delivered 2 seasons of PHL , as project manager , and been apart of the original group of developers and now currently works as a sports and commercial consultant to Royal Bafokeng Sport.

Started playing hockey aged 8 at Cornwall Hill College. After school joined CHIPPAS Hockey Club and played for the1st side in the Northerns premier league, as well as representing TUT at USSA tournaments.

• First Team Coach at Brescia House School in Bryanston.
• Head Coach U13 A ipt Side for Northerns Blues Primary Schools in 2021.
• Head Coach of MJ19 Hockey academy hosted at Midstream College.
• Coached the CHIPPAS Ladies First Team in the Northerns Premier League.
• Coached PHSOB Men’s 2nd team.
  Selected to be Head Coach for Sporting Superheroes in the JHL Men’s Senior League.

Playing PHSOB masters league. Represented Northerns at IPT from the Colts section to the Mustangs over the last 15 years. Represented SA in the 40+ section at the Masters World Cup in Spain 2018.

I went to Pretoria Boys, and matriculated in 2019.  I am currently studying Bcom Informatics at Tuks.  I’ve been playing field hockey for 15 years, and indoor for 9 years (since it restarted in Pta).

I did my level 1 coaching course in 2021 and my level 0 umpiring course in 2017.
I’ve been coaching hockey for the last 5 years.

I am currently playing for the PHSOB men 1st side and have been for the last 5 years.
I play indoor for the Titans Elite mens side.
I was in the Northerns IPT indoor men squad from 2018-2020 and played for Eastern Gauteng in 2021.

Hi Everyone. For those of you that don’t know I’m Dario Lourenco. I have always loved sport since a young age. I believe sport is a great opportunity for you to learn about yourself, teamwork and can teach you many life lessons. I enjoy coaching and helping the kids reach their full potential on and off the field. I have had some success as a player and as a coach at PSI winning a few medals along the way, including 2 x u18 golds as a player and 1 x u18 gold as a coach which is my biggest coaching achievement. My biggest achievement as a player is making the SA men’s indoor squad