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It has been a week of momentous retirements in women’s sport, as two English greats have decided to call time on their illustrious careers.

England rugby captain Sarah Hunter has announced she will retire after the opening Women’s Six Nations game against Scotland on Saturday, which is being played in her home city of Newcastle.

The inspirational Hunter is the world’s most...

The Hockey World Cup is just days away and England will open their account against India on July 3. New Zealand are next on July 5 and then it is China on July 7.

The preparation is complete and the quest for a medal begins.

Skipper Hollie Pearne-Webb told the official FIH website : “Obviously, we want a medal, that's the aim, but we're just going to have to see how it goes...

England Women have named their hockey squad for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, which will also act as the squad for the World Cup in Spain, which begins on July 1.

Four players will make their debuts in an international tournament, with Sophie Hamilton, Holly Hunt, Flora Peel and Lily Walker all included in the squad.

At the other end of the experience scale, Britain’...

Hockey players are often asked to be ambassadors for projects and organisations. And that makes a lot of sense: sports people are frequently in the public eye, they embody the many values associated with a successful sports career, and international athletes can get across messages in a way that teachers, parents, managers and politicians often cannot.

All of which means that the...

In recent months the spotlight has turned fully onto sports and the part they play in racial discrimination. From the racist chanting on the football terraces to the lack of diversity in many sporting association boardrooms, there is a growing awareness that some sports are as complicit in institutionalised racism as other areas of society.

It is something that hockey has already...

There may well be a distinctly Southern Hemisphere vibe to training around Bisham Abbey when Great Britain and England women’s head coach Mark Hager is joined by fellow Kiwi Katie Glynn.

Glynn has been appointed assistant coach to the women’s national team as they prepare for a return to FIH Pro League action, as well as an assault on the EuroHockey Championships (as England) and the...

Great Britain and England Hockey have announced Katie Glynn has joined the set up as assistant coach for the women's international programme.

She joins following on from her role in the same position in the New Zealand's senior women's team.

Katie arrives with a great pedigree as both a coach and player. On the field she amassed 134 caps and scored 77 goals for New Zealand....

Nick Pink had only been in the hot seat as chief executive of England Hockey for four months when Covid-19 struck. While acknowledging the traumatic, and often tragic, impact the pandemic has had upon households everywhere, Pink says the lockdown gave him and his staff a very rare moment when they could actually reflect and take stock.

“We had to shut things down very quickly when...

Following the suspension of domestic hockey in March and the decision that no domestic hockey would be played before 30 June, this morning the England Hockey Board met and is now in a position to confirm how the 2019-20 England Hockey League season will be concluded. This varies from the standard League regulations.

England Hockey has fully considered other sports’ decisions at this...

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) have today confirmed that all FIH Hockey Pro League matches scheduled up to and including June 2020 have been postponed.

The season window has been extended until June 2021 in order to allow all remaining matches to be rescheduled.

As a result, Great Britain Hockey have postponed our two scheduled weekends of home matches in 2020....