✅ Ever wondered if your pre-season program is really setting your team apart?
✅ Phil Moreland—former Hockey Australia S&C coach and current Royal Australian Air Force expert—opens up his strategic approach to pre-season prep, using real team case studies and honest insights.
✅ In this session, Phil walks through how to identify the “gap” between your team and top competition, how to plan backwards from your actual goals, and why it’s about more than just running drills or hitting beep test numbers.
✅ Key takeaway: Don’t just train to tick boxes. Build habits and programs that transfer to game day, and focus on what your team truly needs (even if you don’t have fancy monitoring tech).
Phil Moreland
Phil Moreland currently works as the senior sports science manager for the Royal Australian Air Force. Before this he was the head of S&C for the New South Wales Institute of Sport and worked for Hockey Australia. He’s skilled in Athlete Development, Coaching, and Athletic Training and has a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) focused in Sports Coaching from University of Canberra.
Preseason Performance Planning in Field Hockey
This past session, we dove headfirst into the art and science of field hockey preseason preparation with one of the sharpest minds from Down Under—Phil Moreland. If you missed the live stream or want a quick refresher, here’s your play-by-play from an insightful masterclass that challenged conventional preseason thinking and drilled into strategic performance planning. And of course watch the full video above…
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