Mary Nevill (field hockey)
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Mary Elizabeth Nevill (born 12 March 1961 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England) is a British former field hockey player.
Neville captained the Great Britain squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
Nevill has played club hockey for Leicester.
After her international career Nevill, as a senior lecturer at the Loughborough University, researched in the area of muscle metabolism during maximum sprint and intermittent exercise with a particular interest in the aetiology of fatigue. She also stayed actively involved in the sport of field hockey, and the former Great Britain women's captain for a while was coach to the England U21 Women's Squad. Besides that, Nevill was director of Institute of Youth Sport.
References
- ^ "Mary Nevill Bio, Stats, and Results - Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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- 1961 births
- English field hockey players
- English field hockey coaches
- Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain
- British female field hockey players
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Academics of Loughborough University
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- British field hockey Olympic medallist stubs
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