Angela Robyn Lambert (; born 1 February 1981, in

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) was an

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player. She captained the under 21 Australian women's field hockey squad before entering the

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in 1998 and in 2000 won gold at the Sydney Olympics. Angie went on to play in two more Olympic games and played over 225 games for Australia. Apart from playing in the

she played for the AHL Queensland Scorchers. The youngest of the local Australian Representatives, Skirving began playing hockey at the age of 12 and was selected in the Queensland no.1 Rep. team when 13. She debuted for the Hockeyroos at 17. In 2001 she was named the winner of the International Hockey's Junior Player of the year. In that same year Angie was awarded the Order of Australia Medal OAM for services to sport in Australia. Skirving married Australian Kookaburras goalie

Stephen Lambert (field hockey) Stephen Lambert (born 21 December 1979) is a field hockey goalkeeper from Australia, who was first selected to play for ''The Kookaburras'' at the Four Nations International Challenge in June 2002. Lambert, nicknamed 'Lambo, lambot and Rexy thro ...

in December 2006. The pair have been described as ''Australia's Golden Couple of Hockey''. In 2015 Lambert was named in the Queensland Scorchers Team of the Decade (2005-2015). and in 2019 was added to the QAS Hall Of Fame. Skirving is the hockey co-ordinator at Morteon Bay College, where she also works as a teacher. Skirving is currently playing in the Brisbane Premier League 1 competition for Ascot Women's Hockey Club as a player coach winning Premierships in 2017 and 2021.

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