Lizzie Colvin

Lizzie Colvin is the daughter of Dr. Peter Colvin and Rosie Colvin.^[4][5][6] Colvin attended Portadown College, graduating in 2008.^[7][8][9] Between 2008 and 2013 she completed a Bachelor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin.^[10] Colvin's brother, Chris Colvin, is a rugby union player. In 2017–18 and 2018–19 he captained City of Armagh to two successive Ulster Senior Cup titles. He was also a member of the Queen's University that won the cup in 2013–14.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Armagh

During the 2000s, while still a schoolgirl, Colvin was a member of the Armagh team that won six successive promotions, progressing from the seventh level of the Ulster leagues to the Women's Irish Hockey League.^{[6][15][16][17][18]} Colvin was an Armagh player when she made her senior Ireland debut.^[19]

Loreto

While studying at Trinity College Dublin, Colvin played for Loreto.^[15][16] In 2008–09 she was a member of the Loreto team that won the inaugural Women's Irish Hockey League title.^[20] She was also a member of the Loreto team won the 2009–10 Irish Senior Cup.^[21][22] She also played for Loreto in the 2011–12 final.^[23][24] Colvin's teammates at Loreto have included Nikki Symmons, Hannah Matthews, Alison Meeke and Nicola Daly.^[20][25] She left Loreto in 2017.^[26]

HGC

In 2011 Colvin played for HGC while on an Erasmus break.^[15][16][27]

Belfast Harlequins

In 2017 Colvin began playing for Belfast Harlequins in the Women's Irish Hockey League. Her teammates at Harlequins included Zoe Wilson and Jenny McAuley.^{[6][28][29][30][31]}

Colvin represented Ireland at A level before making her senior debut in June 2008 in a Celtic Cup match against France.^[19][32][33] Between August 2013 and January 2015 Colvin was an absentee from Ireland squads while recovering from an anterior cruciate knee ligament injury.^[15][16][18] In March 2015 Colvin was a member of the Ireland team that won a 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 tournament hosted in Dublin, defeating Canada in the final after a penalty shoot-out.^[34] In January 2017 she was also a member of the Ireland team that won a 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 tournament in Kuala Lumpur, defeating Malaysia 3–0 in the final.^[35] On 22 July 2017 at the 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals, in the seventh and eighth place play-off, Colvin scored the winner in a 2–1 win against India. Ireland's seventh-place finish in at the tournament eventually saw them qualify for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup.^{[15][16][36][37][38]}

Colvin represented Ireland at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup and was a prominent member of the team that won the silver medal.^[18][39][40] She featured in all of Ireland's games throughout the tournament, including the pool games against the United States,^[41] India ^[42][43] and England,^[44] the quarter-final against India,^[45] the semi-final against Spain^[46] and the final against the Netherlands.^[47]

Occupation

Between 2014 and 2016 Colvin worked as a trainee solicitor with A&L Goodbody in Dublin.^[10][65][66] After qualifying as a lawyer in 2017 she began working as an employment law specialist with DWF in Belfast.^{[10][67][68][69][70]} Together with Gillian Pinder, Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan and Deirdre Duke, Colvin was one of five lawyers in the Ireland squad at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup.^[71]

Engagement

In January 2018, while celebrating her 28th birthday in Salzburg, Austria, Colvin got engaged to Matthew Holden from South Africa. The couple met in 2012 while Colvin was on a four-month visit to New Zealand.^[6][68]

Ireland

• Women's Hockey World Cup
  • Runners Up: 2018
• Women's FIH Hockey World League
  • Winners: 2015 Dublin, 2017 Kuala Lumpur
• Women's FIH Hockey Series
  • Runners Up: 2019 Banbridge
• Women's Four Nations Cup
  • Runners Up: 2017
• Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
  • Runners Up: 2012

Loreto

• Women's Irish Hockey League
  • Winners: 2008–09: 1
  • Runners Up: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15: 3
• Irish Senior Cup
  • Winners: 2009–10: 1
  • Runners Up: 2011–12: 1