Tim Atkins (field hockey)
British field hockey player
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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.
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| Born | 24 March 1990 Oxford, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
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]