Hockey Victoria reveals Grassports Australia partnership

Hockey Victoria has announced a two-year partnership with Grassports Australia in a landmark deal that will see the leading synthetic sports surfaces construction company become the naming rights partner for several Championship events as well as sponsoring the Game Clothing Premier League Ball Patrol. 

Grassports are specialists in both the installation and maintenance of synthetic hockey fields, in addition to its expertise in the design and construction of synthetic sports surfaces for schools, clubs, councils, as well as being Victoria’s most experienced tennis court builder.

Grassports Australia owner Bernard Evans has been extensively involved in the sport of hockey as a player, umpire, and as a Board member of Hockey Victoria and has been in the sporting surface industry for almost 50 years.

Evans advises “as the leading provider of installation and maintenance services to the hockey community in Victoria, Grassports is delighted to support the growth of this great sport in Victoria.

“At Grassports our core business is installing and maintaining superior synthetic sporting services for clubs, schools and commercial enterprises, proudly using Australian-manufactured products.  Our partnership with Hockey Victoria will help deliver opportunities for metro and regional sporting communities.”

The key components of the partnership are:

• Grassports to be the naming rights sponsor of the Junior Country Championships, Senior Country Championships and Junior State Championships

• Grassports logo to appear on the Junior State Championships playing shirts and goalkeeper smocks

• Grassports to sponsor the Game Clothing Premier League Ball Patrol. This will see all Premier League Clubs supplied with a uniform for their ball patrol teams to wear.

Hockey Victoria Chief Executive, Andrew Skillern added “we are delighted to partner with a longstanding supporter of Hockey like Grassports. Their passion to enhance junior participants experience is evident in their interest to support our marquee junior and regional events.”

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