THE opportunity to embark on a hockey tour overseas, New Zealand more specifically, sounds like an opportunity too good to pass up.

One of those once-in-a-lifetime shots.

Not for Confederates hockey duo Tiffany Davis and Ally Thurn, though.

The up-and-coming hockey talents have both, on separate occasions, toured Japan as part of the NSW Bushrangers and come September 18, will fly out for New Zealand’s north island as part of the NSW under 16 invitation side to take on some of our Trans-Tasman rivals’ brightest young hockey players.

Both junior guns say they can’t wait for the chance to tour, again.

“We were asked through the centre of development, which was something NSW Hockey was putting on in the Central West,” Thurn said.

“We’ve both been before,” Davis added.

“We’ve both been to Japan with the NSW Bushrangers ... this is the under 16 NSW touring team and it’s both social as well as competitive. 

“We’re looking forward to it.”

The touring party will take on several of their north island’s representative, collegiate and junior premier league sides as well as a national team during the trip, in total eight games over nine games.

Viewed as the ideal way for both players to fine tune their hockey skills, Thurn said it was virtually impossible not to take something away from such a tour.

“It’ll be good to have new coaches,” she said.

“In Orange we kind of have the same coaches for everything.

“We have to travel to Sydney for a training session (the day before the team leaves for New Zealand) with the girls and then they’ll work out positions after that.”

The NSW tour of New Zealand begins on September 18.