Greg Nicol
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 2 April 1975 | ||
| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1993-1997 | University of KwaZulu-Natal | ||
| 2005 | Holcombe (UK) | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | |
| 1994-2004 | South Africa | 200 (240) | |
| Coaching career | |||
| 2006-2019 (various assistant roles) | New Zealand | ||
| 2021-present (Head Coach) | New Zealand | ||
Medal record | |||
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Greg Nicol (born 2 April 1975) is a South African former field hockey player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2] On 23 December 2021 he was announced as the new head coach of the New Zealand men's national team.[3] Greg Nicol served as assistant coach, in various forms, since 2006 for the Vantage Black Sticks Men’s (VBS) at the Beijing Olympics, and then at the Rio Olympics in 2016. He was also an assistant coach for the VBS Women at the London Olympics in 2012. In 2017 Nicol took on the challenge of a newly created role as the Athlete Pathway Manager. In this role he was successful in laying the foundations for a national talent development system for hockey in New Zealand for which HNZ are now reaping the benefits. Nicol left this position to pursue other opportunities in 2019.
He is 5th on the all time goal scoring list, 3rd highest since the advent of astro turf. Achieving the record over the shortest playing period of those with more than 200 goals.(*4 April 2020) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_men%27s_field_hockey_players_with_100_or_more_international_goals
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- South African male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games field hockey players for South Africa
- South African field hockey coaches
- University of KwaZulu-Natal alumni
- South African expatriates in New Zealand
- Coaches at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century South African sportsmen
- South African field hockey biography stubs