Sophie Bray
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
12 May 1990 Grasse, France | ||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | East Grinstead | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2013–2019 | England | 86 | (28) |
| 2014–2019 | Great Britain | 48 | (16) |
Medal record | |||
Sophie Charlotte Bray, MBE (born 12 May 1990) is an English international field hockey player who played as a forward for England and Great Britain.[1][2]
She currently plays club hockey in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for East Grinstead.
Personal life
[edit]Bray lives in Claygate, Surrey but was born in France where her father worked as a marketing consultant. Back in England she played tennis and football at local clubs, representing Surrey at tennis aged 11. She gave up playing tennis and played football for Fulham Ladies, because she preferred a team sport. She was educated at Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston upon Thames joining Surbiton Hockey Club during her time at the school, initially playing for the colts aged 16, before progressing to the senior team.
She attended the University of Birmingham where she studied psychology.[3][4]
Career
[edit]Bray competed for England in the women's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a silver medal,[5] and was a member of the Investec sponsored winning team at the EuroHockey Championships in 2015.
In 2016, she competed for Team GB in the women's Olympic field hockey tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where Team GB won gold in the final against the Netherlands after a penalty shoot out.
Bray was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to hockey.[6][7]
Bray has also played for Surbiton, Uni of Birmingham and in the Netherlands for MOP Hockey Club, Vught, near Eindhoven and most recently Kampong.
On 4 February 2019, Bray announced her retirement from international hockey. During her international career she scored 44 goals and made 134 appearances for England and Great Britain.[8]
Honours and achievements
[edit]International
[edit]Great Britain
[edit]- Gold medal in field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics[9]
England
[edit]- Gold medal in 2015 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship[10]
- Silver medal in Hockey at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[11]
- Bronze medal in Hockey at the 2018 Commonwealth Games[12]
- Bronze medal in 2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship[13]
Individual
[edit]- Investec Women's Hockey League Player of the Season 2018–2019[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Team England profile
- ^ "Sophie Bray - GB Hockey". www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019.
- ^ Bray on the England Hockey website
- ^ "Hockey, tennis, soccer, she's a star at them all". 8 February 2009. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022.
- ^ "Sophie Bray biography". Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N16.
- ^ "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 48. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ^ "Sophie Bray: Rio Olympic gold medallist retires from international hockey". BBC. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Olympics hockey results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "EuroHockey Championships 2015: Results and tables". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014: Australia beat England in shootout to win gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "England lose tense women's hockey semi-final against New Zealand". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Eurohockey 2017: men's and women's results & standings". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Players and teams of the year voting results announced". englandhockey.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
External links
[edit]
- Sophie Bray at the International Hockey Federation
- Sophie Bray at Olympics.com
- Sophie Bray at Olympedia
- Sophie Bray at Team GB
- Sophie Bray at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Sophie Bray at Team England
- Sophie Bray at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- English female field hockey players
- British female field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at the Tiffin Girls' School
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Female field hockey forwards
- English expatriate field hockey players
- English expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Grasse
- SV Kampong players
- Surbiton Hockey Club players
- French emigrants to the United Kingdom
- East Grinstead Hockey Club players
- University of Birmingham Hockey Club players
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century English sportswomen