Pegasus Ladies Hockey Club is a hockey

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 based in Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

, Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1961, with the name being an acronym of Physical Education Girls and Staff Ulster College and Stranmillis. They achieved success quickly and rose to the senior ranks of the Ulster Women's Hockey Union within two years of formation.

Pegasus have been so successful that they hold the record for most Ulster Shield

Ulster Shield

The Ulster Shield is the premier knock-out competition for ladies' hockey teams in the Ulster province of Ireland. It is one of the oldest ladies' hockey competitions in the world, with the first competition being held in 1896...

 and Ulster Senior League wins. On the all-Ireland stage they have won the Irish Senior Cup

Irish Senior Cup (Ladies Hockey)

The Irish Senior Cup is the premier knockout trophy played for by the top ladies' hockey clubs in Ireland. The competition is held under the auspices of the Irish Hockey Association, a body that was formed with the merger of the Men's and Ladies' Unions in 2000...

on twelve occasions.

External links

• http://www.pegasushc.com/history.html Pegasus Website