Lena Tice represented Ireland in the women’s hockey tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where Ireland finished 10th.

One of the most remarkable dual-sport talents in Irish sport, she made her senior international cricket debut for Ireland in 2011 aged just 13 years and 272 days – the second youngest player in history, male or female, to play in an official ODI or T20I – and went on to accumulate 60 cricket caps before concentrating on hockey.

She grew up in Glenealy, Co. Wicklow and attended St Gerard’s School in Bray, where she scored the winning goal as St Gerard’s won the Leinster Schoolgirls’ Senior Cup for the first time in 2015. She made her senior hockey debut for Ireland aged 17 in November 2015, while still a pupil at St Gerard’s. She won a treble with UCD in 2016-17 and was a prominent member of the Ireland team that won silver at the 2018 Women’s Hockey World Cup in London, Ireland’s best ever finish at a global team sports event, aged just 20. She also won medals in the New Zealand and Australian Hockey Leagues. She holds a degree in economics from University College Dublin.