The Canada women's national field hockey team participates in international

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competitions. In 1991, the Canadian men's and women's programs united under the national umbrella of Field Hockey Canada to share funding and infrastructure. The women's team made its first international appearance at the 1978 Women's Hockey World Cup in

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, finishing in fifth place. They were the runner-up at the 1983 Women's Hockey World Cup and the bronze medalists at the 1986 Women's Hockey World Cup. The Canadian women's team participated in the women's international tournament for the first time in 1956. In 1979 Canada hosted 18 countries in Vancouver for that world event; Canada placed 8th. The 1978 Canadian team was the first to enter the Women's World Cup, and placed 5th.

Tournament records

Team

Current roster

The squad for the

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. Head coach:

Rob Short Rob ("Shorty") Short (born August 11, 1972 in Maidstone, England) is a Canadian field hockey player. Career Short played his first international senior tournament in 1995, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Highlights include the 1998 ...

Famous players

* Sharon Bayes * Laura Branchaud * Joel Brough *

Nancy Charlton Nancy Charlton (born 8 October 1962) is a Canadian former field hockey player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Charlton was born in Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canad ...

Michelle Conn Michelle "Mary" Conn (born September 17, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a former field hockey player from Canada. She represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she ended up in seventh place with the Ca ...

* Deb Covey * Sharon Creelman * Sheila Forshaw * Jean Major *

Laurelee Kopeck Laurelee Kopeck (born July 17, 1969 in Nelson, British Columbia) is a former field hockey defender from Canada, who earned a total number of 163 international caps for the Canadian National Team during her career. Nicknamed "Jumbo", she graduate ...

Sandra Levy Sandra Elizabeth Levy (born 3 December 1965 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a former field hockey player, who represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The Toronto, Ontario nativ ...

* Sally Manning * Darlene Stoyka

References

External links

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FIH profile
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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 ...