A theme has run through the England women’s team in recent years. It started with former coach Mark Hager, who set up his team to play more attack-minded hockey and has seemingly continued with David Ralph, the Scot who...
Once the dust settled on Great Britain’s prolonged Tokyo Olympic cycle, attention immediately turned towards the club season. Many of Great Britain’s Olympic stars from both men’s and women’s squads had decided to leave behind the English League and...
Defender Giselle Ansley says New Zealand are in for a rough ride at Twickenham Stoop after GB women's cruel defeat to the Dutch.
Ansley flicked a wonderful penalty corner strike, only to be denied by the video umpire with the...
By The Hockey Paper
Giselle Ansley and Alan Forsyth, who both play for Surbiton, have won the prestigious UK hockey player of the year awards for 2018, following the annual poll by the Hockey Writers’ Club.
The awards were made on Wednesday at...
By The Hockey Paper
Giselle Ansley has admitted that England are not relying on captain fantastic Alex Danson to keep them alive in the Women's Hockey World Cup.
Danson, 33, scored a sublime individual goal against USA on Wednesday, but their...
By Rod Gilmour
England defender Giselle Ansley says that the team will vote on whether they remain on social media or turn off Twitter and Instagram altogether during the Vitality women's World Cup.
While Sophie Bray netted a sublime hat-trick as...
England women head into the summer, starting with the Investec International weekend against Argentina and the Netherlands in London, with no appointed captain for Tokyo 2020.
There will be a designated leader until the autumn - their most experienced player,...
England lost for the second time in the Four Nations hockey tournament in Bremen as they fell 3-1 to hosts Germany on Saturday.
Alex Danson gave England a first-half lead before the hsosts hit back with three unanswered goals.
“We were not...