Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Kate Richardson-Walsh

Ex GB Hockey duo take first steps towards Olympics with Canada

Team GB winning coach Danny Kerry and Rio’s golden captain Kate Richardson-Walsh take their first steps towards qualifying Canada for the Paris Olympics this week. The Canadian Wolf Pack will aim to go one better than silver in 2019 and...

Kate Richardson-Walsh breaks ‘old boys’ network’ with Canada women role

Exclusive: GB Hockey great speaks to THP on Canada women, Olympic hopes and raising the barrier for women coaches Kate Richardson-Walsh says that breaking into the ‘old boys’ network’ is a major boost in a modern climate where few...

Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh top career longevity table

Kate Richardson-Walsh has pipped wife Helen by one day after being revealed as having the longest career of any Great Britain hockey athlete. The research was conducted by The Hockey Museum, which set about a GB hockey statistics project five...

‘Authentic leadership has to get the best out of your people’

In an extract from their new book 'Winning Together', Helen and Kate Richardson-Walsh explore the theme of leadership Leadership is a never-ending quest, a constant search for better. For some people this concept might seem daunting, like swimming upstream against...

My Life in Hockey: Kate Richardson-Walsh

Olympic hockey gold medallist Kate Richardson-Walsh shares her memories and inspirations How I first became involved in sport My parents were both PE teachers and loved sport, so my sister Rachel and I had a go at most activities. I did...

‘Incomprehensible’: Kate Richardson-Walsh lambasts Hockey 5s bid decision

Rio Olympic gold medallist Kate Richardson-Walsh resigned from world hockey's athletes committee on Thursday night after Oman were awarded the first Hockey 5s World Cup. Richardson-Walsh, along wife Helen, wrote a scathing social media post aimed at the International Hockey...

England Hockey ‘must listen’ to state school voice over accessibility

Current and former internationals have resolutely backed young Izzy Gardiner's stance on calling for more state school hockey provision in England. Gardiner, 17, took to Twitter this month to highlight the plight of state school players during lockdown and was...

Alex Danson: ‘It was unusual to see a young kid so willing’

In our last print issue, we produced an 8-page special on Alex Danson's fine field hockey career, in which she was often favourite in the online sports betting odds to score first. Here, we speak to one of her...

Alex Danson-Bennett returns to hockey on Wimbledon Women’s coaching team

England and GB great Alex Danson-Bennett will return to the game - albeit on the sidelines - after being announced as part of the coaching team at newly-promoted Wimbledon Women for the upcoming season. Danson-Bennett, 35, retired in February following...

Team GB women’s hockey gold edged out in best women’s sport moment

By Rod Gilmour Nearly four years after Team GB women etched themselves into history, the hockey squad's memorable, stop-the-nation performance has been voted second best British women's sporting moment of all time in a BBC poll. Great Britain were voted behind...
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