Lindsey Carlisle

Lindsey Carlisle

Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing South Africa
All-Africa Games
	2003 Abuja	Team
Champions Challenge
	2005 Virginia Beach	Team

Lindsey Gay Carlisle (born April 22, 1969 in Johannesburg, Gauteng) is a field hockey player from South Africa, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. The defender comes from Johannesburg, and is nicknamed Linds. She plays for a provincial team called Southern Gauteng.

Carlisle was brought up in Zimbabwe and played hockey over there, but moved to South Africa to further her hockey career. She runs a hockey school in the Gauteng Province. She is the elder sister of former Zimbabwe cricket captain, Stuart Carlisle.

Carlisle was named captain of the 243-person travelling Team SA for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. Participating in her third consecutive Commonwealth Games, she will be supported by boxer Bongani Mahlangu, who was named vice-captain, while Commonwealth Games 800m gold medallist and athletics team captain Mbulaeni Mulaudzi will carry the flag, in leading Team SA into the MCG Stadium, for the opening ceremony on March 15.

International Senior Tournaments

• 1998 – World Cup, Utrecht
• 1998 – Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur
• 1999 – All Africa Games, Johannesburg
• 2000 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen
• 2000 – Olympic Games, Sydney
• 2002 – Champions Challenge, Johannesburg
• 2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester
• 2002 – World Cup, Perth
• 2003 – All Africa Games, Abuja
• 2003 – Afro-Asian Games, Hyderabad
• 2004 – Olympic Games, Athens
• 2005 – Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach
• 2006 – Commonwealth Games, Melbourne

References

• sports-reference