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American field hockey player
Rachel Dawson (born August 2, 1985) is an American
field hockey player.
[1] A midfielder / back, she earned her first senior career cap vs
Australia on June 5, 2005. Dawson was named to the U.S. field hockey team for the
2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics, with the team finishing in 8th and 12th respectively.
[2]
[3]
Dawson was born in
Camden, New Jersey , one of eight children
[1] and grew up in
Berlin, New Jersey , and attended
Eastern Regional High School , where she graduated in 2003. She graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 and resides in North Carolina.
[4]
College
In 2008, while at
North Carolina , Dawson won the
Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female field hockey player.
[5]
[6]
International senior competitions
References
^
a
b
"Rachel Dawson" . London2012.com . Archived from
the original on May 24, 2013.
^
2008 U.S. Olympic Women's Field Hockey Team announced
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;
Mallon, Bill ; et al.
"Rachel Dawson" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com .
Sports Reference LLC . Archived from
the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved December 18, 2015 .
^
Rachel Dawson ,
USA Field Hockey . Accessed December 20, 2007.
^ Katz, Melissa.
"NJ Olympians: Field Hockey Rachel Dawson" . New Jersey 101.5 . Retrieved 2020-03-29 .
^ "Chapter Two. The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia", Canadian Hockey Literature , University of Toronto Press, 2010-01-31,
doi :
10.3138/9781442698512-004 ,
ISBN
978-1-4426-9851-2
External links
U.S. women's national field hockey team — Olympics 2016
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