Iain Mackay (born 24 April 1985) is a British

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. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, he competed for the

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in the

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Club career

MacKay played club hockey with Reading but left after the Olympics to join Hampstead & Westminster.

International career

MacKay began playing internationally in 2009 and helped England to a win in the

2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship The 2009 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 12th edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held in Amsterda ...

Personal life

He was schooled at

Bishop's Stortford College Bishop's Stortford College is a independent day and boarding school in the English public school tradition for more than 1,200 pupils aged 4–18, situated in a campus on the edge of the market town of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Englan ...

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

. Later, he attended college at

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

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* * * * Living people English male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain British male field hockey players 1985 births Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players Reading Hockey Club players Loughborough Students field hockey players 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub