Cécile Sophie Pieper (born 31 August 1994) is a German

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 ci ...

player. She represented her country at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. , Pieper was studying for a master's degree at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...

, where she played on the

Connecticut Huskies field hockey The UConn Huskies field hockey team represents the University of Connecticut in the sport of field hockey in the NCAA Division I level Big East Conference. The team plays at the George J. Sherman Family-Sports Complex, and is coached by Nancy St ...

team.

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* 1994 births Living people German female field hockey players German female indoor hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Germany Olympic medalists in field hockey Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Heidelberg Female field hockey midfielders UConn Huskies field hockey players Mannheimer HC players HGC (field hockey) players German expatriate field hockey players 21st-century German women 2018 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players {{Germany-fieldhockey-bio-stub