Lizzie Holden (née Colvin)
Hockey
BIOGRAPHY
Lizzie Holden (née Colvin) represented Ireland in the women’s hockey tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where Ireland finished 10th, retiring afterwards having won 206 caps – only the seventh Irish woman to reach that landmark.
A midfielder from Portadown, Co. Armagh, she began her club career with Armagh HC, where she was part of a remarkable side that won six successive promotions from the seventh tier of Ulster hockey to the top division under coach Mick McKinnon. She attended Portadown College and studied law at Trinity College Dublin, where she played for Loreto and won the inaugural Women’s Irish Hockey League title in 2008-09.
Despite suffering an ACL injury in 2013 that kept her out for 16 months, she returned to become a key figure in the Ireland squad, scoring the winner against India in 2017 that ultimately helped qualify Ireland for the 2018 Women’s Hockey World Cup in London, where Ireland took silver. She was one of five lawyers in the 2018 World Cup squad, working as an employment law specialist with DWF in Belfast. She had previously qualified at A&L Goodbody in Dublin.
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