Susannah Townsend, (born 28 July 1989) is an English

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player who plays as a midfielder for

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. She was educated at

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, alongside Ashley Jackson, where together they each worked towards representing their country, England, in field hockey and is an Alumnus of the University of Kent. Townsend is openly

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Club career

For the 2020-21 season she has rejoined former club

who play in the

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Division One South. Townsend has also played club hockey in

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, in the Feldhockey Bundesliga for Der Club an der Alster, in Belgium for Gantoise and in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for

and

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International career

She competed for

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in the women's hockey tournament at the

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where she won a silver medal. She announced her retirement from international play on 9 September 2021.

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* * 1989 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 Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain 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 Female field hockey midfielders Der Club an der Alster players Reading Hockey Club players Women's England Hockey League players Feldhockey Bundesliga (Women's field hockey) players Alumni of the University of Kent LGBT field hockey players Lesbian sportswomen English LGBT sportspeople Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics English expatriate sportspeople in Germany Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub