Phil Roper
British field hockey player
Phillip Andrew Roper (born 24 January 1992) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Old Georgians and the England and Great Britain national teams. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Club career
Roper started playing hockey, aged 8, for his local club Chester HC and played there for ten years before going to university, where he played for Sheffield Hallam. He played club hockey for Brooklands MU and Wimbledon before joining Dutch club Oranje-Rood for the 2021–22 season.
Roper played for Holcombe during the 2022-2023 season before joining Old Georgians. He helped Old Georgians finish runner-up to Surbiton during the 2024–25 season.
International career
Roper made his international debut in 2013. He competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal. On 24 May 2017 he was named as one of a three-man captaincy group, for England and Great Britain. It was a new captaincy structure for the men's international teams.
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