Changed for training: Adam Clark takes the Blue Islands way to the UK on this occasion. (Picture by Chris George, Coast Media, 0720689)

THE lengths a Guernsey hockey player goes to play his sport was featured in The Times yesterday.

Written by the daily national newspaper’s chief hockey correspondent, Cathy Harris, the article concentrated on how local England under-16 player Adam Clark makes it to training sessions in the UK.

He is regularly expected to travel over to Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton and Exeter for these sessions, which is not always straightforward.

But if the 15-year-old Clark is unable to book a scheduled flight, he will catch a flight with an anonymous family friend in his private plane.

It is then back to school for the Elizabeth College student on the Monday morning. Like most successful Guernsey sportsmen and women, Clark takes the extra efforts he has to make for his sport in his stride.

‘I don’t know otherwise, so I just get on with it,’ he said in the article. ‘My [English squad] team-mates call me Guernsey and I do take a lot of stick from them. But I don’t think they really understand what island living is all about.’