Severiano "Seve" Boris van Ass (born 10 April 1992) is a Dutch

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player who plays as a midfielder or forward for

HGC HGC can stand for: * Human Genetics Commission *Hercules Graphics Card * H.O.C. Gazellen-Combinatie, a Dutch field hockey club * HGC Global Communications, an internet service provider in Hong Kong * HGC (field hockey) H.O.C. Gazellen-Combinatie, ...

and the Dutch national team. He is the son of Dutch field hockey coach

Paul van Ass Paul van Ass (born 16 August 1960, Bergschenhoek) is a Dutch field hockey coach. After coaching for the Dutch club HGC, he became the coach of the national team, managing them at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's tournament. After his con ...

. He participated at the

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. In June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship and was named the

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for the tournament. They won the bronze medal by defeating

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4–0.

Club career

Van Ass started playing hockey at Victoria, a field hockey club in

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. In 2008 he switched to

, with whom he won the

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. In 2013 he returned to Rotterdam to play for

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, where he played for five seasons until 2018 when he returned to HGC.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ass, Seve van 1992 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders Male field hockey forwards 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Sportspeople from Rotterdam HGC players HC Rotterdam players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players 21st-century Dutch people