Deanna Ritchie
New Zealand field hockey player
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Deanna Ritchie (born 15 December 1995)[1] is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who plays as a forward.[2]
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| Born |
15 December 1995 Pukekohe, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Central | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2019 | Auckland | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | New Zealand U–21 | 14 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016– | New Zealand | 8 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
Deanna Ritchie was born and raised in Pukekohe, New Zealand.[3][4]
Career
Domestic league
Deanna Ritchie made her National Hockey League (NHL) debut in 2014. She was an import player in the Central team.[4]
From 2015 until 2019, when the NHL was discontinued, Ritchie represented her home side of Auckland.[4] In her first season with the team, she took home the national title.[5]
National teams
Under–21
In 2015, Ritchie made her debut for the New Zealand U–21 team during an invitational tournament in Breda.[6]
She went on to represent the team again the following year. She won a silver medal at the Junior Oceania Cup in the Gold Coast, and was a member of the team at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago.[6][3]
Black Sticks
Since her debut in 2016, Ritchie has only made occasional appearances in the Black Sticks squad.[6]
Following a number of retirements in the national squad after the 2020 Summer Olympics, Ritchie was officially raised into the squad.[7]
