Angie Skirving
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Birth name | Angela Skirving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1 February 1981 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | (age 43)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Angela ("Angie") Lambert (née Skirving) (born 1 February 1981, in Toowoomba) is an Australian Women's Field Hockey player. She captained the under21 Australian women's field hockey squad before entering the Hockeyroos in 1998. Apart from playing in the Hockeyroos she plays for the AHL Queensland Scorchers.
The youngest of the local Australian Representatives, Skirving began playing hockey at the age of 12 and was selected in the Queensland no.1 Rep. team when 13. Skirving is married to Australian Kookaburras goalie Stephen Lambert (field hockey). The pair have been described as Australia's Golden Couple of Hockey and were married in December 2006.
Skirving currently teaches P.E at Brisbane Girls Grammar School.
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Categories:
- 1981 births
- Australian female field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players of Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Female field hockey players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey