FIELD HOCKEY SHACK - Key Persons
ABOUT : Brad is our latest member of The Team, having joined in February 2020 as both a player and manager. Brad left his birthplace of South Africa in pursuit of The Olympic dream and has been a member of The National Team since arriving in April 2017.
Brad was a part of the team that defeated Ireland in the Olympic qualifier and will be hoping to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
ABOUT : Competing for Canada wasn't something that was on Danielle Hennig's radar until near the end of her first year of university when she was extremely surprised to learn she had been invited to a national team camp.
She attended that camp with no idea of how the national team program worked, but left it knowing it was something she wanted to pursue wholeheartedly. She made her first international appearance in 2010 and now has become a leader on the squad, serving as an alternate captain.
In 2011 she was part of Canada's near-podium performance at the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara and then helped the squad win bronze at the 2013 Pan American Cup. In 2014, Hennig was the Field Hockey Canada Women's Player of the Year and in 2015 she was part of the Canadian team that won bronze at the 2015 Pan American Game in Toronto Ontario, the first time since 1999 the Canadian women took home a medal at the event.
Hennig played collegiately for the University of Victoria and scored the game-winning goal in the 2008 CIS Championship final.
ABOUT : Born in Canada but raised in the United Kingdom, Oliver Scholfield moved back to Canada for University in 2011.
After taking up the sport in school, he went on to play for English club teams including the Waverley Panthers and Wessex Leapords. At university, Scholfield plays for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.
He made his first junior international appearance in 2012 and then went on to represent Canada at the Junior World Cup. He made his first senior appearance in 2014 and scored his first goal in 2015.
Oli was part of the Mens National Team that defeated Ireland in an Olympic qualifier and is currently training towards The Olympic Games in Tokyo.