Nicholas Catlin
British field hockey player (born 1989)
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Nicholas Andrew Catlin (born 8 April 1989) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Marlow, England
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
8 April 1989 Marlow, England | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2007–2008 | Reading | ||
| 2008–2011 | Loughborough | ||
| 2011–2012 | Reading | ||
| 2012–2013 | Racing Bruxelles | ||
| 2013–2014 | Reading | ||
| 2014–2016 | Holcombe | ||
| 2016–2017 | East Grinstead | ||
| 2017–2018 | Rotterdam | ||
| 2018–2021 | Beerschot | ||
| 2022–2023 | East Grinstead | ||
| 2023–present | Henley | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2009–2016 | England & GB | 348 | |
Medal record | |||
Biography
Catlin is from Marlow, and attended John Hampden Grammar School.[1]
Catlin started playing club hockey for Reading, initially as a junior and then senior in 2007. He joined Loughborough Students' the following season in 2008 and made his international debut in 2009[1] and played in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.[2] He was part of the silver medal winning England team that competed at the 2010 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Mönchengladbach, Germany.[3]
He had two more spells with Reading, sandwiched by a season playing in Belgium. Catlin competed for the Great Britain national team at the 2012 Olympic Games[4][5][6] and won a bronze medal with the England team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, scoring a penalty in the shootout against New Zealand which decided the bronze medal match.[7][8]
In September 2014, he switched to play for Holcombe[9] before representing Great Britain at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.[10] After the Olympics he joined East Grinstead.[11] He also played for Racing Bruxelles in Belgium.[1]
He joined Rotterdam in the Dutch Hoofdklasse in 2017[12] but after one season he left Rotterdam and he returned to Belgium to play for Beerschot.[13]
Catlin returned to East Grinstead in 2022 and then moved to Henley Hockey Club.[14]
