Lily Owsley

Lily Owsley
Personal information
Nationality British
Born (1994-12-10) 10 December 1994
Bristol, England
Education Clifton College[1]
University of Birmingham[2]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country  Great Britain
 England
Sport Field hockey

Lily Owsley (born 10 December 1994) is a British field hockey player. She won gold competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She competed for England in the women's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a silver medal.[3]

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.[4]

In January 2016, Owsley was named global FIH Rising Star of 2015.[5]

She is currently a second year student at the University of Birmingham studying Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation.[6]

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