About

The Kingston upon Hull Junior Programme (formerly Humberside) was started from humble beginnings back in September 1988, the first practice being run for the juniors by the then Player/Coach of the senior team. The first junior team to play competitively was the under 16 team, the Blades. The following year an under 12 team was formed, the Humdingers and in 1990 the Humberside Spitfires completed the group.

In 1992 a meeting was called to address the problems involved, representatives of all the teams at the time were present and a working group was formed and charged with the responsibility of returning with proposals which would help all the teams and groups that played ice hockey at the Arena.

At a subsequent meeting it was proposed that the only way forward was to establish a club that could look after the interests of all the teams, so on Monday 20th September 1992 The Humberside Junior Ice Hockey Club was formed. Since that day the club has not looked back, we now have under-10, 12, 14, 16 and 19 teams* which play every weekend during the season.

Since its formation the Club has had some great successes with many players being selected for national and international duty. In 1996 the Club received the award for the best junior development system in the country. We also received it again in 2002, showing we do not intend to let things slip. A number of our teams have been crowned English Champions, while others have won European Tournaments.

The future for Kingston upon Hull Junior Ice Hockey Club looks good. The season 2001/2002 saw yet more successes with all our teams going from strength to strength, the jewel in the crown being the under 16’s winning the National Championships and being awarded under 16’s sports team of the city by Hull City Council.

Since then the under 10’s have won the National Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. The under 14’s were runners up in 2005 after a hard fought final.