East Grinstead coach Mary Booth called star forward and captain Sophie Bray the 'pied piper' of her team after she finished runaway league top goalscorer, notched her 100th regular season goal and helped the club secure second place in...
Have there been two more popular winners? Sophie Bray and Sam Ward have been voted UK hockey players of the year for 2019 by members of the Hockey Writers’ Club (HWC) following Wednesday's awards lunch in London.
Bray was honoured as the...
Great Britain women's Olympic hopes were dealt a blow on Monday when Sophie Bray announced her unexpected retirement from international hockey.
Still only 28, Bray played 134 times for England and Great Britain, scoring 44 goals.
She remains one of the...
By Richard Bright
Sophie Bray, the hat-trick hero of England's Commonwealth bronze, says the team has a "massive opportunity" to now go forwards and lift the women's World Cup for the first time.
England's highest finish in hockey's showpiece event has...
By Rod Gilmour on the Gold Coast
Thinking Thursdays? Call this Smashing Saturday.
England women finished their Commonwealth campaign with a superb bronze medal, a 6-0 thrashing against India, a side who had no answer to this second-half capitulation.
Sophie Bray, England's...
Our Rio golden girls have been here, there and everywhere since landing back in the UK. With Team GB up for the team award at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday night, Rod Gilmour guides you...
When the 2014 hockey World Cup hits off in the Netherlands on Saturday, one of England's stars will feel right at home. Striker Sophie Bray has spent the past three years in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.
Those seasons in the best hockey...
It wasn’t too long ago that England were also-rans at world-level events – think men’s football. Of course there was never any of football’s out-of-control flag-waving followed by bitter ‘state-of-the-game’ recriminations. Frankly, not many people cared. All that started...
England have named their squad of 18 players for the World League final in Argentina, November 30 – December 8.The squad contains only one change from that which brought home a European silver medal this summer.After recovering from a...
