Alyson Regina Annan OAM (born 21 June 1973 in Wentworthville, New South Wales) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals. Playing as an attacking midfielder, she was a key member of the squad that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and defended its title successfully four years later at the 2000 S...
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Alyson Regina Annan OAM (born 21 June 1973 in Wentworthville, New South Wales) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who earned a total number of 228 international caps for the Women's National Team, in which she scored 166 goals. Playing as an attacking midfielder, she was a key member of the squad that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and defended its title successfully four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She made her international debut against Korea in June 1991 at the age of 17.
Known as the "sharpest shooter in international women’s hockey" and the "best female hockey player in the world" during the 1990s, Annan first made history books at the 1998 Commonwealth Games when she became Australia's highest ever goal scorer with 110 goals. With a total number of 149 goals in just 201 international appearances she has what can only be described as a phenomenal goalscoring strike-rate. Such has been their...
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