From the fields of Oxted to the Olympics spotlight, Zach Wallace’s drive to become one of the most gifted hockey players of his generation has pit stops via Gaelic sports, a myriad of coaches and mentors and a heavy dose of lessons in leadership. All of which has seen the playmaker captain his country as a rising 22-year-old and become the first Englishman to sign with the famous orange colours of Dutch club hockey giants Bloemendaal.
His father, Mark, hails from County Down, Northern Ireland and his wife, Cathriona, from County Tipperary, and early holidays back home invariably saw Zach, who was born in the UK, yield a hurley [stick], a sport which can be played with both sides and where Wallace junior “could give it a good old whack”.
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