Alyson Annan
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alyson Regina Annan | ||
Born |
Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia | 12 June 1973||
Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1991–2001 | Australia | 228 | (166) |
Coaching career | |||
Years | Team | ||
2015–2021 | Netherlands | ||
2022– | China | ||
Alyson Regina Annan OAM (born 12 June 1973) is an Australian field hockey coach and retired field hockey player, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals. Since 2022, she is also the current head coach of the China women's national field hockey team.
From 2015, Annan was the head coach of the Netherlands women's national field hockey team; she led the team to a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil and a gold medal at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as well as gold medals at the 2017 and the 2021 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in The Netherlands. In 2022, she was sacked for creating a culture of fear.
During 2013 Annan gained the prestigious award of becoming a member of Sport Australia Hall of Fame. She is currently head coach of the China Women's National team.
Biography
[edit]Annan was born on 12 June 1973 in Wentworthville, New South Wales.[1] She was voted the Best Female Hockey Player in the World in 1999.[2] In the following year, she led the Australian team to gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She subsequently retired from international competition and moved to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands she played for HC Klein Zwitserland from The Hague. She retired in 2003, becoming the coach of Dutch league team HC Klein Zwitserland. In 2004, she was an assistant of Dutch Head Coach Marc Lammers at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, when the Netherlands won silver.
Annan was married to Argentinian hockey player, Maximiliano Caldas.[3] After their divorce her partner became Carole Thate, a former Dutch hockey captain and fellow Olympic medallist. Annan and Thate had their first child, Sam Henk Brian Thate, in May 2007.[3] Their second son, Cooper Thate, was born in October 2008.[4]
Annan was to be the coach of the first women's team of the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club during the 2012–2013 season.[5]
In 2013 Annan was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[6]
In October 2015 she was named as head coach of the Netherlands women's team, succeeding Sjoerd Marijne. Annan's former husband Max Caldas previously coached the Netherlands women's team to a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.[7] During the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro Annan coached her team to a silver medal losing to the Great Britain Team after shoot-outs in the final.[8]
In 2022, Annan was fired as coach of the Netherlands women's team after an investigation into accusations of verbal intimidation and creating a culture of fear and silence.[9]
Major international tournaments
[edit]- 2000 Olympic Games Gold Medal
- 1996 Olympic Games Gold Medal
- 1992 Olympic Games 5th
- 1998 Hockey World Cup Gold Medal
- 1994 Hockey World Cup Gold Medal
- 2001 Champions Trophy 3rd
- 2000 Champions Trophy 3rd
- 1999 Champions Trophy Gold Medal
- 1997 Champions Trophy Gold Medal
- 1995 Champions Trophy Gold Medal
- 1993 Champions Trophy Gold Medal
- 1998 Commonwealth Games Gold Medal
- 1993 Junior Hockey World Cup Silver Medal
Awards
[edit]- 1994 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
- 1995 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
- 1996 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
- 1996 Player of the Year Australian Women's Hockey Association
- 1996 Player of the Series Australian Hockey League
- 1996 New South Wales Sportswoman of the Year
- 1996 New South Wales Athlete of the Year
- 1996 Order of Australia Medal
- 1997 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
- 1997 Player of the Year Australian Women's Hockey Association
- 1997 Player of the Tournament Champions Trophy
- 1998 Team of the Year Australian Sports Awards
- 1998 International Player of the Year International Hockey Federation
- 1998 Player of the Tournament Hockey World Cup
- 1998 Finalist World Sportswoman of the Year Women's Sport Foundation (USA)
- 2000 International Player of the Year International Hockey Federation
- 2002 Player of the Year Dutch League
- 2003 Player of the Year Dutch League
- 2013 Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alyson Annan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Alyson Annan OAM" (PDF). November 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ a b Hannan, Liz. "[1]". The Sunday Age, 1 July 2007. Retrieved on 18 May 2011
- ^ Connolly, Paul. "Back home to show off their boys" The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2009. Retrieved on 18 May 2011
- ^ "Alyson Annan per volgend seizoen hoofdcoach Dames 1 Amsterdam" (in Dutch). 26 March 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ "Alyson Annan enters Sport Australia Hall of Fame". hockey.org.au. Hockey Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Hockey great Alyson Annan made Dutch head coach for Rio Olympics". The Australian. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ "One to go: Brits aren't afraid as the Dutch go for triple gold at Rio". 19 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "Bondscoach Annan ontslagen bij hockeyvrouwenploeg na berichten over angstcultuur" (in Dutch), Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, 12 January 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
External links
[edit]- 1973 births
- Living people
- Australian female field hockey players
- Australian field hockey coaches
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Australian bisexual sportspeople
- Australian bisexual women
- Olympic field hockey players for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- LGBT field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Australian expatriate field hockey players
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- HC Klein Zwitserland players
- Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bisexual sportswomen
- LGBT people from New South Wales
- 21st-century Australian LGBT people
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
- Field hockey players from Sydney
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Coaches at the 2024 Summer Olympics