Susannah Townsend (born 28 July 1989) is an English

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 who plays as a midfielder for

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. She was educated at

Sutton Valence School Sutton Valence School (SVS) is a private school near Maidstone in southeast England. It has 560 pupils. It is a co-educational day and boarding school, boarding school. There are three senior boarding houses: Westminster, St Margaret's and Sutto ...

, alongside Ashley Jackson, where together they each worked towards representing their country, England, in field hockey and is an Alumnus of the University of Kent. Townsend is openly

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Club career

For the 2020-21 season she has rejoined former club

who play in the

Women's England Hockey League The Women's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features women's teams from England. From 2011–2020 it was sponsored by Investec and was referred to as the Investec Women's Hockey League. Format ...

Division One South. Townsend has also played club hockey in

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, in the Feldhockey Bundesliga for

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, in Belgium for Gantoise and in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for

and

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International career

She competed for

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in the women's hockey tournament at the

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where she won a silver medal. She announced her retirement from international play on 9 September 2021.

References

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(archived)
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(archived) * * * * * * 1989 births Living people Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games field hockey players for England English female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in field hockey Members of the Order of the British Empire Female field hockey midfielders Der Club an der Alster players English expatriate field hockey players Reading Hockey Club players Women's England Hockey League players Feldhockey Bundesliga (Women's field hockey) players Alumni of the University of Kent LGBTQ field hockey players English lesbian sportswomen Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics English expatriate sportspeople in Germany Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportswomen {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub