Megan Frazer (born 2 October 1990) is an Ireland women's field hockey international. She was a member of the Ireland team that played in the

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. She has also captained the Ireland team. Frazer was a member of the

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team that won the

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and 2011 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championships. Between 2010 and 2012 she was named three times as an NFHCA All-American and in 2011 she also won the

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. Frazer has also won Irish Senior Cup titles with

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Early years, family and education

Frazer is from

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. She is a daughter of Stan/Wilson Frazer and Margaret Frazer. She has a sister, Lauren. She is also a cousin of

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, the former Republic of Ireland international footballer. Frazer played for the

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at youth level. Between 2001 and 2009, Frazer attended

Foyle and Londonderry College Foyle College is a co-educational non-denominational voluntary grammar school in Derry, Northern Ireland. The school's legal name is Foyle and Londonderry College. In 1976, two local schools, Foyle College and Londonderry High School, merged und ...

, where she played

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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

and

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. Between 2009 and 2013 she attended the

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, where she gained a BA in Hearing and Speech Sciences. Between 2014 and 2016 she attended

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, where she gained a

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in Biomedical engineering.

Domestic teams

Foyle and Londonderry College

Frazer was captain of the

team that won the 2009

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and finished as runners up in the Kate Russell All-Ireland Schoolgirls Championships. In the Ulster Senior Schoolgirls' Cup final, Frazer scored the only goal as Foyle and Londonderry defeated

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1–0.

Ballymoney

In 2007–08 Frazer was a member of the Ballymoney team that finished as runners up to

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in both the

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and the Irish Senior Cup. Her teammates included

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and

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Maryland Terrapins

Between 2009 and 2012, while attending the

, Frazer played for

. She subsequently helped them win the

and 2011 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championships. Between 2010 and 2012 she was named three times as an NFHCA All-American. She also won the

in 2012 as the best field hockey player in the nation.

Holcombe

In 2013–14 Frazer played for

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in the

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, helping the club gain promotion to the Premier Division. Frazer scored a hat-trick as Holcombe defeated Brooklands Poynton 8–2 in a promotion play-off. Her teammates at Holcombe included

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, Lucy Wood and

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Ulster Elks

In 2014, while attending

, Frazer began playing for

in the

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. Her teammates at Elks included

Shirley McCay Shirley McCay (born 7 June 1988) is an Ireland women's field hockey international. She was a member of the Ireland team that played in the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup final. McCay has played in the Women's Irish Hockey League for Old Alex, ...

and

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. She subsequently helped Elks win the Irish Senior Cup in both 2014–15 and 2015–16. In 2016 she also captained Elks as they won the EuroHockey Club Champions Challenge I. After the Elks were relegated from the Women's Irish Hockey League at the end of the 2016–17 season, Frazer continued to play for and coach the team in the Ulster Premier League. She also began playing for Mannheimer HC in the

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Mannheimer HC

In 2016 Frazer began playing for Mannheimer HC in the

. Frazer also played for Mannheimer HC in the 2018 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup.

Ireland international

Frazer represented

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at Under-16, Under-18 and Under-21 levels before making her senior debut against

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in June 2008. In 2014 she was appointed Ireland captain by Darren Smith. In March 2015 Frazer captained the Ireland team that won a 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 tournament hosted in

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, defeating

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in the final after a

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. Frazer also captained the Ireland team that won the 2015 Women's EuroHockey Championship II. She scored in the final as they defeated the

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5–0. A knee injury meant Frazer was unavailable for Ireland selection for twenty months. However she returned in time to represent Ireland at the

and was a prominent member of the team that won the silver medal. She featured in five of Ireland's six games during the tournament, including the pool games against the

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, and

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, the quarter-final against India, and the semi-final against

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. However she missed out on the final against the

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after picking up an injury against Spain.

Honours

;

Women's Hockey World Cup The Women's FIH Hockey World Cup is the field hockey World Cup competition for women, whose format for qualification and the final tournament is similar to the men's. It has been held since 1974. The tournament has been organized by the Internat ...

**''Runners Up'':

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**''Winners'': 2015 Dublin *Women's EuroHockey Championship II **''Winners'':

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**''Runners Up'':

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;

*EuroHockey Club Champions Challenge I **''Winners'': 2016 * Irish Senior Cup **''Winners'': 2014–15, 2015–16 ;

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**''Winners'':

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**''Runners Up'':

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;Ballymoney * Irish Senior Cup **''Runners Up'': 2007–08 *

**''Runners Up'': 2007–08 ;

**''Winners'': 2008–09 *Kate Russell All-Ireland Schoolgirls Championships **''Runners Up'': 2009 ;Individual *

**''Winner'': 2012 *NFHCA All-American **''Winner'': 2010, 2011, 2012

References