Bernadette Coston (born 17 August 1989,

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

) is a South African

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed with the

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in the

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. She was also part of the South African women's team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She completed her Master’s degree in

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and graduated from the

University of Johannesburg The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the ...

in 2016.

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Profile Living people 1989 births South African people of British descent Olympic field hockey players of South Africa South African female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Johannesburg Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa University of Johannesburg alumni Crusaders Hockey Club players 20th-century South African women 21st-century South African women Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-fieldhockey-bio-stub