Uni roller hockey

Uni roller hockey is a family team sport played on roller skates, combining roller hockey with unihoc. Players require only moderate roller skating ability and play with plastic sticks and low velocity puck. A team is composed of five to seven players (dependant upon rink size and age of players), and the goalkeeper is rotated after each goal is scored to ensure that all players have a spell in goal.
History
For many years uni roller hockey has been played at North Herts Leisure Centre in Letchworth Garden City (and many other venues around the UK) as part of their Saturday and Sunday roller skating sessions. Unlike Roller Hockey, uni roller hockey can be played by the whole family without the need for special equipment or padding.
If a venue has invested in roller skates then the extra expense of buying the necessary plastic sticks and pucks tends to be small in comparison, which is the main reason why uni roller hockey has been so popular in the past at many roller skating venues.
Up until 2010 uni roller hockey was regularly played at Market Deeping (near to Peterborough, where national Roller Hockey is based) as a stand-alone sporting activity. Family roller skating then immediately followed uni roller hockey and participants tended to stay and attend the roller skating session too.
In 2012 the sport was introduced in Royston, Hertfordshire as a non-profit making family activity, with the intention of establishing a number of new venues around North Hertfordshire and South Cambridgeshire and establishing the first known regional league.

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