HAWKSHAW Sarah

EuroHockey Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Women	2019	Antwerp, BEL
6	Women	2021	Amsterdam, NED

Athlete, Coach

Health Science - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

English

Railway Union Hockey Club [Dublin, IRL] since 2018

Sean Dancer [national], AUS

Forward (irishtimes.com, 01 Nov 2019)

Her brother David Hawkshaw has represented Ireland in rugby union at junior level [U20]. He also played hurling for Dublin at junior level. (the42.ie, 09 Jun 2019, 23 Jan 2019)

She competed in athletics [cross-country and track] at junior level for her school and Clonliffe Harriers AC in Dublin, Ireland. She also competed for Dublin in Gaelic football at junior level [U16]. (independent.ie, 01 Nov 2019; the42.ie, 09 Jun 2019; umassathletics.com, 2017)

2019 for Ireland Against Chile, in Santiago, Chile (hockey.ie, 14 Jan 2020)

Irish Hockey League (hockey.ie, 26 Sep 2020)

She was encouraged to take up the sport after her running coach at Metro St. Brigid's Athletics Club in Dublin, Ireland, advised her she would be better suited to hockey. "I was running quite competitively and playing [Gaelic] football for Dublin in school but was actually getting injured as I was trying to do both. My running coach [Charlie Martin] told me that I probably had more chance in hockey than running. I respected his decision and leaned more towards the sport before going to the United States of America after I finished high school." (independent.ie, 01 Nov 2019; the42.ie, 09 Jun 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (the42.ie, 09 Jun 2019)

Being selected for the national team. (independent.ie, 01 Nov 2019)

Former running coach Charlie Martin. (independent.ie, 01 Nov 2019)