Alyson Annan

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Alyson Annan (2016)

Alyson Annan (born June 21, 1973 in Wentworthville , New South Wales ) is a former Australian hockey player .

Career

Annan played 228 games internationally for Australia's women's team Hockeyroos and scored 166 goals. As a midfielder, she was a key member of the team and won the gold medal with her team at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Georgia and also the gold medal four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia . She made her sporting debut against Korea in June 1991 at the age of 17. Her trainer Ric Charlesworth recognized her athletic talent.

Annan was known as the sharpest shooter in international women's hockey and the best female hockey player in the world in the 1990s . Annan made sporting history at the 1998 Commonwealth Games when she became Australia's best field hockey goalscorer with 110 goals.

In 1998 and 2000 Annan was elected world hockey player . In 2000 Annan moved to the Netherlands, where she played for the club HC Klein Zwitserland from The Hague . In 2003 she ended her sporting career and became the coach of the Dutch team Hoofdklasse . In 2004 she was also assistant coach alongside national coach Marc Lammers at the Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece, where the Netherlands won the silver medal.

Honors and prizes

  • 1994 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
  • 1995 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
  • 1996 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
  • 1996 Player of the Year Australian Women's Hockey Association
  • 1996 Player of the Series Australian Hockey League
  • 1996 New South Wales Sportswoman of the Year
  • 1996 New South Wales Athlete of the Year
  • 1996 Order of Australia Medal
  • 1997 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
  • 1997 Player of the Year Australian Women's Hockey Association
  • 1997 Player of the Tournament Champions Trophy
  • 1998 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
  • 1998 International Player of the Year International Hockey Federation
  • 1998 Player of the Tournament Hockey World Cup
  • 1998 Finalist World Sportswoman of the Year Women's Sport Foundation (USA)
  • 2000 International Player of the Year International Hockey Federation
  • 2002 Player of the Year Hoofdklasse in Holland
  • 2003 Player of the Year Hoofdklasse in Holland

Private

In 2003 Annan published her autobiography Beyond the limits - The Alyson Annan story , written by Nicole Jeffrey.

For many years, Annan lives with the Dutch athlete Carole Thate together, they in the Netherlands got married . In May 2007, with the help of a friend who made himself available as a sperm donor, a son was born to Annan, whom Annan and Thate bring up as parents under custody.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on ABC Australia ( Memento from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Hannan, Liz. " Divided in sport, united in love: two women and a baby boy ". The Sunday Age , July 1, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Annan, Alyson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Wentworthville , New South Wales