Tim Atkins
| File:Tim Atkins.jpg | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
24 March 1990 Oxford, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| Wallingford | |||
| Team Bath | |||
| Richmond | |||
| Essendon, Melbourne | |||
| 2015–2018 | Reading | ||
| 2018–2019 | Surbiton | ||
| 2019–2021 | Old Georgians | ||
| 2022–2025 | Clifton Robinson | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2017– | Scotland | 33 | (2) |
Medal record | |||
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Timothy Christopher Atkins (born 24 March 1990) is a British field hockey player who played for the Scotland men's national field hockey team.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Atkins was born in Oxford, was educated at Streatley School and The Oratory School.[1]
Atkins started his hockey career at the age of 5 after joining Wallingford Hockey Club.[2] He played the majority of his senior hockey club career at Reading Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League.[3][4]
While at Reading, his won first international cap for Scotland in March 2017 at World League 2[5][6][7][8] and won a gold medal with Scotland at the 2017 Men's EuroHockey Championship II in Glasgow.[9]
At the end of the 2017–18 season, he left Reading to play for Surbiton Hockey Club.[10]
in August 2019, he was selected in the Scotland squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship[11] and around the same time, he signed for Old Georgians Hockey Club for the beginning of the 2019–20 season.
He is also a type 1 diabetic working closely with Diabetes UK.[12]
References
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External links
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- Living people
- 1990 births
- Male field hockey defenders
- English male field hockey players
- Scottish male field hockey players
- Surbiton Hockey Club players
- Reading Hockey Club players
- Men's England Hockey League players
- Scotland men's international field hockey players
- Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol