Lily Isabelle Owsley (born 10 December 1994) in

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national teams. She´s also a big argentine football fan, allegedly a

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Club career

Owsley plays club hockey in the Dutch Hoofdklasse for hdm. She has been playing hockey in the

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Premier Division for Hampstead & Westminster. and has also played for

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International career

She won gold competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she scored GB's first goal of the tournament as well as the first goal in the Gold Medal final. She competed for England in the women's hockey tournament at the

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where she won a silver medal. She was selected for the 2018 Commonwealth Team but had to withdraw due to injury. Owsley won Euro hockey gold with England in August 2015 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. She scored the final goal to end full-time 2–2 with the Netherlands, then England won the penalty shoot out. In January 2016, Owsley was named global FIH Rising Star of 2015. In June 2021, it was announced that Owsley would be partaking in her second Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020, representing Great Britain in the Women's field hockey team. At the end of the 2024 season, Owsley joined Banco Provincia in Argentina.

Education

Lily was educated at

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King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Owsley, Lily 1994 births Living people Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists in field hockey 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 Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain People educated at Clifton College British female field hockey players Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in field hockey Members of the Order of the British Empire Sportspeople from Bristol Female field hockey forwards Women's England Hockey League players University of Birmingham Hockey Club players Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club players Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportswomen