Dean Warren Couzins (born 9 June 1981) is a

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team,

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d ''The Black Sticks'', in 2001 against

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. The defender played the latter part of 2005 for Dutch club Breda, returning to join the NZ team for the Oceania Cup in November. Dean joined Dutch club

SV Kampong Sportvereniging Kampong Hockey (, ), also known as SV Kampong or simply Kampong, is a Dutch professional field hockey club based in Utrecht. It was founded in 1902, making it the second-oldest hockey club in the Netherlands. Both the men's and th ...

in 2006–2007 helping them to a successful first year in the Dutch first league.

International senior tournaments

* 2001 –

World Cup Qualifier The FIFA World Cup qualification is a set of competitive matches that a national association football team plays in order to qualify for one of the available berths at the final tournament of the men's FIFA World Cup. Qualifying tournaments ar ...

* 2002 –

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* 2002 –

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

* 2003 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup * 2003 – Champions Challenge * 2004 – Olympic Qualifier * 2004 –

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

* 2004 –

Champions Trophy The ICC Champions Trophy, formerly known as the ICC Knock Out Trophy, is an international One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by international men's teams. Inaugurat ...

* 2005 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup * 2006 –

* 2006 –

* 2007 – Champions Challenge * 2008 –

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

* 2012 –

References

Profile on New Zealand Hockey

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Couzins, Dean 1981 births Living people New Zealand male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games field hockey players for New Zealand Commonwealth Games silver medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players from Christchurch SV Kampong players New Zealand expatriate field hockey players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Hockey India League players Delhi Waveriders players 20th-century New Zealand people Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen