Tom Sorsby
English field hockey player (born 1996)
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Thomas Callum Sorsby (born 28 October 1996) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Den Bosch and the England and Great Britain national teams. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Sheffield, England
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
28 October 1996 Sheffield, England | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2011–2013 | Chapeltown HC | ||
| 2013–2015 | Sheffield Hallam | ||
| 2015–2017 | Beeston | ||
| 2017–2018 | University of Nottingham | ||
| 2018–2023 | Surbiton | ||
| 2023–present | Den Bosch | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2016–2017 | England & GB U-21 | 26 | (0) |
| 2019–present | England & GB | 47 | (0) |
Medal record | |||
Biography
Sorsby played hockey for Chapeltown HC before playing for Sheffield Hallam from 2013 to 2015. He played for England at under-18 and under-21 level and for Great Britain at under-21 and under-23 level.
He joined Beeston for the 2015–16 season and represented the England under-21 in the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2016, when they finished 4th and played for the Great Britain under-21 team in the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2017, when they finished 2nd.[1]
After the 2017–18 season when he played for University of Nottingham Hockey Club he joined Surbiton in the Men's England Hockey League for the 2018–19 season.[1] Sorsby earned a call up to the Great Britain Olympic squad for the delayed 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo.[2][3]
He won a bronze medal with England in the Men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[4] Sorsby continued to play club hockey in the Premier Division for Surbiton until 2023,[5] when he left England to play for Den Bosch in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.[6]
He won a silver medal with England at the 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship in Mönchengladbach.[7]
Sorsby was part of the Great Britain that was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where the team reached the quarter final of the hockey event.[8]
