Haagsche Delftsche Mixed Hockey Club
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Haagsche Delftsche Mixed (HDM) is a field hockey
club from The Hague
. The club was founded on February 8, 1908, when students from Delft
wanted to play hockey with their girlfriends from The Hague
. The first men's team won the Dutch national title in 1924, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942 and – for the last time – in 1992. Currently the first men's plays in the second division, which is called "Overgangsklasse", the first women's team plays in the top league, called "Hoofdklasse".
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
club from The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
. The club was founded on February 8, 1908, when students from Delft
Delft
Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam and The Hague....
wanted to play hockey with their girlfriends from The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
. The first men's team won the Dutch national title in 1924, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942 and – for the last time – in 1992. Currently the first men's plays in the second division, which is called "Overgangsklasse", the first women's team plays in the top league, called "Hoofdklasse".
Notable internationals from HDM
- Carina BenningaCarina BenningaCarina Marguerite Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics...
- Marc BenningaMarc BenningaMarc Alexander Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of 53 caps, scoring no goals for the Netherlands national field hockey team in the 1980s and early 1990s....
- Wendy Fortuin
- Russell Garcia
- Julian Halls
- Nicole KoolenNicole KoolenNicole Simone Tellier-Koolen is a former field hockey midfield player from the Netherlands, who played a total number of 53 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored two goals...
- Martine OhrMartine OhrMartine Ohr is a former Dutch field hockey striker, who won the gold medal with her team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Four years later she claimed a bronze with the Holland squad at the Seoul Olympics, and Ohr also participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where the Dutch finished sixth...
- Wouter van PeltWouter van PeltWouter van Pelt is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 236 international matches for the Netherlands, in which he scored 21 goals. The defender made his debut for the Dutch on March 27, 1989 in a match against England. He played in the Dutch League for HDM and Breda...
- Koen PijpersKoen PijpersKoen Pijpers is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands who represented the Dutch national team.-References:...
- Hanneke Smabers
- Minke SmabersMinke SmabersMinke Smeets is a field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands. Her current team is Laren.She was part of the team that won the 2007 Champions Trophy...
- Macha van der Vaart
- Ingrid WolffIngrid WolffIngrid Imelda Wolff is a former Dutch field hockey forward, who won the bronze medal with the National Women's Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics....
- Giselle Kañevsky