Simon Callaghan is the new president of the Dubbo Hockey Association while the best young players will now have access to regular training clinics as part of the COD squad.

With a number of Dubbo's most outstanding juniors making high level representative sides in recent times, Hockey NSW's Kate Pulbrook believes the formation of a COD training squad is another sign of hockey's continued growth in the city.

"Dubbo is really starting to focus on recruitment and improving hockey and a program like this will help," she said.

"The coaches will also learn from other top coaches and from there it will be better across the board for the kids, the coaches, the association and whole community."

With Hockey Australia moving the various National Championships to April and May of 2015 the trials will be held early next year, a time which is usually the middle of the off-season, Pulbrook said the training clinics would be hugely beneficial for all aspiring juniors.

"It goes across a lot of age groups so there is a different focus for each age," she said.

"The under-13s, because it's the middle of the off-season, it's just about keeping up skills and giving them some time to work on some new elements while the under-15s have state selection early next year so for them it's about getting some good touches on the ball and having lots of practice.

"In the under-18s they've got trials in February so we've got to make sure they keep their skills up and they get the chance to be coached by some different people and people who have coached state sides. It's all done as good fun, it's not competitive and there's no pressure so they can really get out as much as they put in."

The training clinics will be occurring weekly with one weekend staged at Dubbo and each second session to be held at a location in the Western Region for all local players to attend.

"Last weekend we were in Bathurst and the special guest was a Kookaburra, Matthew Willis, and also Centre of Development manager Richard Willis, Pulbrook said.

The COD training clinics will be of great benefit to local players as in the past there was only ever a one-off training clinic held in Sydney at the start of each season.

Pulbrook said the need to localise clinics and allow more people to attend was a key factor in the development of the COD sessions.

In terms of the local hockey committee, other new members include Nikki Simpson, Matt Waters, Andrew Johnston, Michelle Osborne, Craig Rosenbaum, Kate Nolan, Mary Anne Waters and Karen Burn.