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Further Personal Information | |
| Residence | London, ENG |
Sport Specific Information | |
| Club / Team | Canterbury: Canterbury, ENG |
| Preferred position / style / stance / technique | Goalkeeper |
General Interest | |
| Awards and honours | She was named Scottish Women's Player of the Year in 2007. (cgcs.org.uk, 15 Sep 2010) |
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| Name of coach | Nick Clark [club], Danny Kerry [national] |
Further Personal Information | |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
General Interest | |
| Other information | OCCUPATION In addition to her hockey career she is also a qualified surgeon. "There are massive parallels between sport and medicine. Both are very much team games. Both need self-discipline and self-motivation. You can’t give everything to medicine. That’s a quick way to alcoholism and drug addiction. So I also do hockey." (wired.co.uk, 12 Oct 2010) GOALKEEPER ORIGINS She has been a goalkeeper for almost all her hockey life and believes she has her brothers to thank for her choice of position. "I think this may have come from kicking around at football with my brothers. They usually put me in goal." (independent.co.uk, 26 Sep 2010) |
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| Higher education | Medicine - University of Glasgow: Glasgow, SCO |
General Interest | |
| Injuries | She has suffered a broken finger six times wile playing hockey. (wired.co.uk, 12 Oct 2010) |
| Famous relatives | Her sister Nicky played hockey for Scotland at U21 level. (independent.co.uk, 26 Sep 2010) |
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| Why this sport? | She followed her sister Nicky into the sport. |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | She started playing hockey at primary school |