Mary Nevill (field hockey)
British field hockey player
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Mary Elizabeth Nevill OBE (born 12 March 1961 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England) is a British former field hockey player.
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Early life
As Mary Cheetham, she lived in Nettleham, and attended the De Aston Grammar School,[1][2][3] arriving from Macclesfield in 1974.[4]
She played for Lincoln hockey club.[5] and also threw the javelin,[6] and jumped hurdles.[7] She was picked for the England junior hockey team in March 1978.[8] She played for the county hockey team as centre forward.[9] She gained three A levels in August 1979.[10]
Career
Hockey
In October 1980, she was picked for the England U23 team.[11] In March 1982 she was chosen to captain the England U21 team,[12] and the England U22 team in October 1982.[13] She was picked for the England team in February 1985, to play against Wales.[14]
She became the England captain in July 1989.[15]
Nevill captained the Great Britain squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[16]
Nevill has played club hockey for Leicester.
Lecturer
After her international career Nevill, as a senior lecturer at the Loughborough University, researched in the area of muscle metabolism during maximum sprint and intermittent exercise with a particular interest in the aetiology of fatigue. She also stayed actively involved in the sport of field hockey, and the former Great Britain women's captain for a while was coach to the England U21 Women's Squad. Besides that, Nevill was director of Institute of Youth Sport.
Nevill is currently Professor and a former Head of Department of Sport Science in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.
Personal life
She married on Saturday 9 July 1988.[17]
Nevill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Sport and Sports Science.
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