Alyson Annan
Alyson Annan ( born June 21, 1973 in Wentworthville, New South Wales ) is a former Australian hockey player.
Life
Annan played internationally in 228 games for Australia's women's team Hockeyroos and scored 166 goals. As a midfielder, she was a key member of the team and her crew won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the gold medal four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Your sporting debut against Korea in June 1991 at the age of 17 years. Your coach Ric Charlesworth recognized her athletic talent.
Annan was in the 1990 than the sharpest shooter in international women's hockey and the best female hockey player in the world known. Annan wrote in the 1998 Commonwealth Games sports history when she became Australia's best Feldhockeytorschützin with 110 gates.
1998 and 2000, Annan was elected to the World Hockey Player. 2000 Annan drew in the Netherlands, where she played for the club HC Klein Zwitserland of The Hague. In 2003 she finished her sporting career and was coach of the Dutch team Hoofdklasse. In 2004, she was the Assistant Trainer Furthermore, in addition to the national coach Marc Lammers at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, where the Netherlands won the silver medal.
Published in 2003, Annan her autobiography Beyond the limits - The Alyson Annan story, which was written by Nicole Jeffrey.
For many years Annan lives together with the Dutch athlete Carole Thate, who she married in the Netherlands. In May 2007, Annan was a son, with the help of a friend who turned out to be a sperm donor available, born, which Annan and Thate worry legally educate together as parents.