Lily Isabelle Owsley, (born 10 December 1994) in

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

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is an English

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 Dutch club hdm and the

and

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national teams.

Club career

Owsley plays club hockey in the Dutch Hoofdklasse for hdm. She has been playing hockey in the

Women's England Hockey League The Women's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features women's teams from England. From 2011-2020 it was sponsored by Investec and was referred to as the Investec Women's Hockey League. Format Regula ...

Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster. and has also played for

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

International career

She won gold competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she scored GB's first goal of the tournament as well as the first goal in the Gold Medal final. She competed for England in the women's hockey tournament at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

where she won a silver medal. She was selected for the 2018 Commonwealth Team but had to withdraw due to injury. Owsley won Euro hockey gold with England in August 2015 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. She scored the final goal to end full-time 2–2 with the Netherlands, then England won the penalty shoot out. In January 2016, Owsley was named global FIH Rising Star of 2015. In June 2021, it was announced that Owsley would be partaking in her second Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020, representing Great Britain in the Women’s field hockey team.

Education

Lily was educated at

Clifton College ''The spirit nourishes within'' , established = 160 years ago , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school , religion = Christian , president = , head_label = Head of College , head ...

and

The University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Owsley, Lily 1994 births Living people Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England English female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics People educated at Clifton College Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain British female field hockey players Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in field hockey Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Members of the Order of the British Empire Sportspeople from Bristol Female field hockey forwards Women's England Hockey League players University of Birmingham Hockey Club players Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics