About Us
History of the club
The Kingston Ice Hockey 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´s team, the Blades. The following year an under 12´s 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 in running a club, 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 teams in the under 10's, 12's, 14's, 16's, 18's, and English National league 2, 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 and 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 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. Season 2012/13 our under 14's were crowned National Champions.
The Under 20's won the northern league 2016/17 for the first time, and our 18's won the northern B league which they have won twice in the last 3 years. The Under 15's have just finished Champions of the 17/18 season and won promotion back to the A league where they belong Their first Season back in the A league (2018/19) the Under 15's finished 2nd in the league and made the national finals.
The last 2 seasons we have hosted 4 tournaments which have received positive feedback from all the clubs who attended.
2020 our under 13's won the B league and our senior team, The Hull Jets won the NIHL 2 league.
Now the structure of the leagues has changed after the pandemic we have 6 teams to compete at all levels, plus we are hosting our 3rd tournament in 2022.
Season 2022-2023 our Under 14's were crowned champions again of the North East League, Hull Jets were crowned NIHL2 champions and our Under 18's won our 2023 Tournament, a very good year again for the club. The new season, we have moved Hull Jets into NIHL1 for the first time in the clubs history! With this we have formed a new NIHL2 called Sharks. Everyone at the club is looking forward to the new season.