Amy Swensen (née Trần, also known as Amy Tran-Swensen, born October 2, 1980) is an American
field hockey
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player.
A goalkeeper, she made her national team debut against
Mexico
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at the
2001 Pan American Cup, where she shared the 5-0 shutout. She was born in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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,
and began playing hockey at the age of 13. Tran attended the
Northern Lebanon High School and
University of North Carolina
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. At the
2006 Women's Hockey World Cup
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The Netherlands won the tournament for the sixth time after defeat ...
, Tran was named Goalkeeper of the Tournament.
At the
2008
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and
2012 Summer Olympics
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, she competed for the
United States women's national field hockey team
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in the
women's event.
She regained her position in the team after knee replacement surgery in autumn 2011.
After the US's failure to qualify for the
2010 World Cup
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, she briefly quit hockey to concentrate on her career in massage therapy, also taking the time to marry her husband, Mark Swensen.
She announced her retirement from Team USA in January 2013, having played in 163 games.
International senior competitions
* 2002 – USA vs India
WC Qualifying Series, Cannock (1st)
* 2003 –
Champions Challenge, Catania (5th)
* 2003 –
Pan American Games
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, Santo Domingo (2nd)
* 2004 – Pan American Cup, Bridgetown (2nd)
* 2004 –
Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Auckland (6th)
* 2005 –
Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach (5th)
* 2006 –
World Cup Qualifier, Rome (4th)
* 2006 –
World Cup
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, Madrid (6th)
References
USA Field Hockey
External links
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1980 births
Living people
American female field hockey players
Female field hockey goalkeepers
Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players of the United States
Sportspeople from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
North Carolina Tar Heels field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games