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Ollie Willars
English field hockey player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oliver Wilton Willars (born 25 June 1990) known as Ollie Willars is an English field hockey player who plays as a defender for Dutch club HGC. He played a total of 138 matches for the England and Great Britain national teams, from 2012 until 2019.[1]
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Biography
Willars was educated at Worksop College and joined Beeston when he was 12 years old and played club hockey for them in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division.[2]
While at Beeston, Willars competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal[3] and repeated the bronze medal success four years later when he represented England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.[4]
In March 2021 it was announced that he had joined Dutch Hoofdklasse club HGC for the 2021–22 season.[5]
In April 2021 he announced his retirement from international hockey[6][7] and during the Summer of 2024 he became the Head of Hockey at Marlborough College, ending his time in the Netherlands.[8]
He joined Indian Gymkhana for the 2024–25 season.
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