{"id":87234,"date":"2025-10-19T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:18:07","slug":"on-the-up-hawkes-bays-three-findlay-sisters-off-to-chile-for-hockeys-junior-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87234\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Up: Hawke\u2019s Bay\u2019s three Findlay sisters off to Chile for hockey\u2019s Junior World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twin sister Hannah Findlay and Greer Findlay, 18 months her junior, are on tour with New Zealand Under-21 team in Japan.<\/p>\n

Together they were in the New Zealand team who played in the Oceania World Cup qualifying tournament in Auckland eight months ago.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another level of a Findlay sporting dynasty, driven by their grandfather, Hawke\u2019s Bay Cricket patron and former primary school principal Harry Findlay, and also including brother Sean Findlay, an established men\u2019s Black Sticks player with two Olympic Games<\/a> behind him.<\/p>\n

Dad and pre-eminent hockey mentor Graeme Findlay has coached them at most levels as they passed through the various grades from Arthur Miller School, Taradale High School, the Bay Independent Club and representative sides to the senior representative level.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of Hawke\u2019s Bay\u2019s doorway to national junior and senior women\u2019s and men\u2019s national hockey for at least 10 Hawke\u2019s Bay players currently in national squads.<\/p>\n

\"SistersSisters three, the Findlay girls from Taradale, who are off to the FIH Junior women’s World Cup hockey tournament in Santiago in December.<\/p>\n

Recent Hawke\u2019s Bay representatives also in the senior women\u2019s national sides have been Hannah and Kaitlin Cotter and Olivia Shannon. Sean Findlay\u2019s Hawke\u2019s Bay and Black Sticks teammates have included Dylan Thomas, Dom Dixon, Sam Hiha and Jonty Elmes.<\/p>\n

All remain in contention for the 2026 senior World Cup tournaments, and the Olympic Games in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly special moment for us \u2013 and for our family \u2013 to have the opportunity to compete together on the world stage and represent our country at the U21 level,\u201d Emma Findlay told Hawke\u2019s Bay Today. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all Hawke\u2019s Bay locals, having grown up playing hockey through local clubs, schools and regional programmes,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Bay has always been at the heart of our journey and we\u2019re extremely proud to be taking that connection with us as we wear the silver fern in Chile.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no free ride. The families and the Hawke\u2019s Bay hockey community are putting their shoulders to the wheel. With the December tournament costing $12,500 per player, that means a total of $37,500 for the three sisters \u2013 so they\u2019ve been selling firewood, hosting quiz nights and planning community fundraisers.<\/p>\n

Playing for leading England club Reading, Emma Findlay said the senior women\u2019s win over Australia in Darwin last month is a career highlight, but hopes there are more before Christmas.<\/p>\n

New Zealand ended the last Junior World Cup in 15th place, and she\u2019s confident the 2025 team will at least make the top eight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the players,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing has been a reporter for more than 50 years, and in Hawke\u2019s Bay continuously since 1987, covering most aspects of news, including sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twin sister Hannah Findlay and Greer Findlay, 18 months her junior, are on tour with New Zealand Under-21…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7793,25291,10542,790,66058,2082,22260,22137,305,1976,43779,66059,26588,15220,3607,111,139,69,6662,90,61492,8417,24809,213,223,1529,61,12637,810,377],"class_list":["post-87234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bays","tag-chile","tag-cup","tag-emma","tag-findlay","tag-for","tag-greer","tag-hannah","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-hockey","tag-hockeys","tag-junior","tag-line","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-on","tag-played","tag-production","tag-sisters","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-three","tag-to","tag-together","tag-up","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}