Maddie Hinch: Seeing the game my way

An in depth conversation with global hockey star Maddie Hinch. Covering her learnings and her opinions on what and who has helped drive her success all the way to Olympic Gold.

Maddie Hinch made her senior debut in 2008 and was later awarded a full-time contract with GB Hockey in 2010. Since then she's established herself as the first-choice goalkeeper and has gone on to represent England and Great Britain over 150 times.

Maddie won gold with Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics, saving all four penalties in the final shoot-out against The Netherlands. Maddie is one of the best Goalkeepers in the world and is 3x FIH Goalkeeper of the Year.

After a brief spell out of the game in late 2018 to recharge her batteries, Maddie returned to hockey in 2019, helping GB qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where history could well be made again...

Other highlights so far include a European silver medal in Belgium 2013, a Commonwealth Games silver medal in Glasgow 2014, and a gold medal in the 2015 European Championships in London.

In 2017, the shot-stopper appeared in the Hockey World League Final in Auckland, where England narrowly lost to South Korea in a third-place playoff. History repeated itself the following year when, at the 2018 Hockey World Cup, Maddie and her England teammates put in some stellar performances only to lose a third-place playoff on home soil to Australia.

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