Lee Morton (born 23 May 1995) is a Scottish international

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 who plays as a midfielder or forward for

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and

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. He represented Scotland at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

. In August 2019, he was selected in the Scotland squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship. He also does hockey coaching at

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Education

He studied at

University of the West of Scotland The University of the West of Scotland ( gd, Oilthigh na h-Alba an Iar), formerly the University of Paisley, is a public university with four campuses in south-western Scotland, in the towns of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley, Blantyre, South Lanar ...

graduating in 2017 with a BA (Hons) in Criminal Justice.

Club career

Morton plays club hockey in the

Men's England Hockey League The Men's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organized by England Hockey that features men's teams from England and Wales. Format Regular season There are 62 teams in the league, the top tier consists of a Premier Division of twelve t ...

Premier Division for Old Georgians'. He has also played for

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* * * 1995 births Living people Field hockey players from Glasgow Male field hockey midfielders Male field hockey forwards Scottish male field hockey players British male field hockey players Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Reading Hockey Club players Alumni of the University of the West of Scotland {{Scotland-fieldhockey-bio-stub