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The players both girls and boys said they preferred the single-gender camps.
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A simple but effective change that provided an environment for more players to participate. “The area where the pilot camp is in Dublin has not typically been a hockey stronghold and especially with boys hockey. They split the camps by gender the girl’s camp filled up with 100% of participants as expected and the boy’s camp had 90% registered a huge increase (75%) in the number of boys, but also an increase in total participation, so more young people playing hockey. So, the National Association (Hockey Ireland) decided to do something different and monitor the effect. So, we looked at the data for the camps we run across the country every summer, and generally, 85% of the places are taken by girls and just 15% by boys. So, in North Dublin this summer at Sport Ireland Campus we ran three Hockey Ireland camps one in June, July, and August and the numbers were consistently similar.” “Usually like many other countries in recent years, as far as I can see hockey camps would be ‘mixed’ yet whilst in Ireland participation in girls’ hockey is increasing boys’ hockey is struggling relatively. Kenny Carroll, Regional Development Officer at Hockey Ireland looked at a problem in a different way. EHF continues to celebrate and champion the work nations are doing as they strive towards equally amazing developments. At the 2019 EHF General Assembly, the member National Associations signed up to the European Hockey Charter for Gender Balance.