MK STORM​

The junior club was started in 1991, under the direction of the MK Kings  senior coach Mike Sirant. It played it's first game against Aldershot losing 28-0, but in the following years the club moved from strength to strength.
By 1992, the club had 3 teams registered in the midland conference. In 1993, the owners of the MK rink closed the Bladerunner Arena but the junior club responded and formed a company to keep the rink going.

From 1993 to 1996, the club grew in size and strength, establishing itself as one of the best in the country. In June 1996, the Bladerunner closed for good leaving the club homeless. Un-deterred, the junior club continued to train in Stevenage and Haringay until the rink re-opened in June 1998.

Housed in their new home the club made significant progress with all age groups gaining promotion to the Southern A League in 2000. In 2001 the club, for the first time in it’s history, won a league championship at the U16A level..
 

Season 2002/2003 was the first year that the club didn't play under the name Junior Kings; from that point and until this day, the teams are known as MK Storm.
Under the committed direction of Nick Poole, the club's Director of Coaching, the club has continued to grow with a "Hockey for All" philosophy with extra teams being created as required to accommodate all players. Membership peaked when the club fielded 5 A league teams, two B league teams and even managed to arrange several games for the Development Squad players.

It should come as no surprise really that when the rink closed for refurbishment in 2013 there was a determination amongst its members that the club would continue and stay together, closing for a season was simply not an option! The club decamped briefly to Coventry and then back to Milton Keynes and MKICE to complete its season.

So the move back to the bottom of the hill opened a new chapter in the clubs history and presented it with challenges but also with the opportunity to regain the lost momentum by getting the people of Milton Keynes playing  "The world's fastest team sport."

 

Past and Present MK Lightning Players that have gone through the Milton Keynes Junior Program

 

Jordan Hedley                             Ed Knaggs

Leigh Jamison                             Hallden Barnes-Garner

Ross Green

Ross Bowers

Ben Russell

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If you have any information about the clubs history including pictures and would like to help us add to the record of our history then please sent to mkstorm.vicechairperson@gmail.com.