RUIZ CASTILLO Maria de los Angeles

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2018	London, GBR

EuroHockey Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Antwerp, BEL
4	Women	2021	Amsterdam, NED
5	Women	2017	Amstelveen, NED

Mari (rfeh.es, 27 Feb 2018)

Athlete, Physiotherapist

Physiotherapy - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

English, Spanish

Club de Campo [Madrid, ESP] since 2012

Eduardo Aguilar [club], ESP; Adrian Lock [national], GBR

Goalkeeper (rfeh.es, 04 Mar 2020)

Her brother Alberto is a hockey coach at RC Polo in Barcelona, Spain, and her younger brother Jose Antonio has played hockey at domestic level in Spain. (Alberto Ruiz Twitter profile, 23 Mar 2020; Jose Antonio Ruiz Castillo Facebook profile, 07 Feb 2020)

Division de Honor [ESP] (rfeh.es, 04 Mar 2020)

She began playing hockey at age 14. (xperimentando.com, 21 Dec 2018)

"I was influenced by my older brother, who had been playing for a few years. When I was young I used to take guitar classes at the music school, but when I finished I followed some girls who played [hockey] too. I saw that my brother Alberto and the girls had a lot of fun so I tried it. Since then there hasn't been a day without hockey in my life." (xperimentando.com, 21 Dec 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (efe.com, 02 Jan 2020)

She was named Best Goalkeeper at the 2019 EuroHockey Nations Championship in Antwerp, Belgium. (as.com, 25 Aug 2019)

In 2015 she was named Best Goalkeeper in the Euro Hockey League, the Division de Honor Final Four, and the European Indoor Championships. (eurohockey.org, 06 Apr 2015; LinkedIn profile, 01 Sep 2018)

In 2014 she was named Best Goalkeeper at the European Indoor Championships, the Spanish Indoor Championships, and the Queen's Cup. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Sep 2018)