Christina Louise "Tina" Cullen MBE (born 1 March 1970 in

Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is within ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

) is a

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 from

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. Cullen has represented

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

in two consecutive

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

, starting in 1996 when the team finished in fourth place. She is a coach with Bowdon Hightown and has over 400 English Premier League goals to her name. She teaches sport at

Greenbank High School Greenbank High School is an all-girls secondary academy school located in Hillside, Southport, Merseyside, England. School details Greenbank currently holds The NACE (National Able Children in Education) Challenge Award, Artsmark Gold, British ...

and was awarded an MBE in the New Years honours list 2013.

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* 1970 births Living people British female field hockey players English female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Sportspeople from Stockport People educated at Bramhall High School Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Members of the Order of the British Empire Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub