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The Scotland women's national field hockey team represents
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in international women's
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competitions, with the exception of the
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when Scottish players are eligible to play for the Great Britain women's national field hockey team as selected. Scotland recently participated in the inaugural season of the
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, but were knocked out in
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, failing to qualify for the 2014 Hockey World Cup in
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, Netherlands. they are seventeenth in the FIH outdoor world rankings.


Competing as Great Britain

Scotland do not compete at the
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, but Scottish players are eligible to play for
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as selected. Great Britain instead of the four individual home nations (including Scotland) also compete at certain editions of both the
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, usually when the tournament serves as an Olympic Games qualifier (most recently in 2014–15), and the FIH Hockey Champions Trophy, when held during Olympic years (most recently in
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). At the 1992 Olympic Games, Scottish field hockey players,
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, Wendy Fraser and Alison Ramsay won bronze medals, as part of the Great Britain team in the
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. Scottish players Laura Bartlett and Emily Maguire repeated the feat at the
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. Also with the Great Britain team, Maguire won silver at the 2012 FIH Hockey Champions Trophy (as did Bartlett), and a gold medal for winning the 2014–15 FIH Hockey World League Semi-finals.


Tournament history

: Champions   Runners-up   Third place   Fourth place :''An asterisk denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty shootouts.'' :''A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Scotland.''


World Cup


World League


Commonwealth Games


EuroHockey Nations Championship


Champions Challenge I


Hockey World Cup Qualifier


EuroHockey Nations Indoor Championship

*
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
– 4th place *
2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
– 4th place *
2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...
– 8th place *
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
– 4th place *
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
– 4th place *
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
– 7th place *
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
Challenge II – 5th place *
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
Challenge II – 3rd place


Players


Current squad

The following 18 players were named in the Scotland team for the
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. Head coach: Jennifer Wilson


Notable former players

* Laura Bartlett *
Susan Fraser Susan Barbara "Sue" Fraser (born 15 July 1966 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a former field hockey player from Scotland, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Four years later in At ...
* Wendy Fraser * Alison Ramsay * Pauline Robertson *
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See also

* Scotland men's national field hockey team


References


External links

*
FIH profile
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