Lizzie Colvin
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Full name | Elizabeth Holden | ||||||||||
Born |
Elizabeth Colvin 4 January 1990 [1] County Armagh, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||
200x–2008 | Portadown College | ||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||
200x–2008 | Armagh | ||||||||||
2008–2017 | Loreto | ||||||||||
2011 | → HGC | ||||||||||
2017– | Belfast Harlequins | ||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
2008– | Ireland | 161+ | (5) | ||||||||
Medal record
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Holden (
Early years, family and education
Lizzie Colvin is the daughter of Dr. Peter Colvin and Rosie Colvin.[4][5][6] Colvin attended Portadown College, graduating in 2008.[7][8][9] Between 2008 and 2013 she completed a Bachelor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin.[10] Colvin's brother, Chris Colvin, is a rugby union player. In 2017–18 and 2018–19 he captained City of Armagh to two successive Ulster Senior Cup titles. He was also a member of the Queen's University that won the cup in 2013–14.[11][12][13][14]
Domestic teams
Armagh
During the 2000s, while still a schoolgirl, Colvin was a member of the Armagh team that won six successive promotions, progressing from the seventh level of the Ulster leagues to the Women's Irish Hockey League.[6][15][16][17][18] Colvin was an Armagh player when she made her senior Ireland debut.[19]
Loreto
While studying at
HGC
In 2011 Colvin played for HGC while on an Erasmus break.[15][16][27]
Belfast Harlequins
In 2017 Colvin began playing for
Ireland international
Colvin represented Ireland at A level before making her senior debut in June 2008 in a Celtic Cup match against France.[19][32][33] Between August 2013 and January 2015 Colvin was an absentee from Ireland squads while recovering from an anterior cruciate knee ligament injury.[15][16][18] In March 2015 Colvin was a member of the Ireland team that won a 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 tournament hosted in Dublin, defeating Canada in the final after a penalty shoot-out.[34] In January 2017 she was also a member of the Ireland team that won a 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League Round 2 tournament in Kuala Lumpur, defeating Malaysia 3–0 in the final.[35] On 22 July 2017 at the 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals, in the seventh and eighth place play-off, Colvin scored the winner in a 2–1 win against India. Ireland's seventh-place finish in at the tournament eventually saw them qualify for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup.[15][16][36][37][38]
Colvin represented Ireland at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup and was a prominent member of the team that won the silver medal.[18][39][40] She featured in all of Ireland's games throughout the tournament, including the pool games against the United States,[41] India [42][43] and England,[44] the quarter-final against India,[45] the semi-final against Spain[46] and the final against the Netherlands.[47]
Tournaments | Place |
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2009 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge II[48][49] | 3rd |
2009 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship[50][51] | 5th |
2010 Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers[52][53] | 3rd |
2011 Women's Hockey Champions Challenge I[54] | 6th |
2011 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship[55] |
6th |
2012 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier[7][56] | 2nd |
2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League[57][58] | 15th |
→ 2015 Dublin Tournament[34] | 1st |
2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League[35] | 13th |
→ 2017 Kuala Lumpur Tournament[35] | 1st |
2017 Women's Four Nations Cup[59] | 2nd |
2018 Women's Hockey World Cup[44][46][60] | |
2018–19 Women's FIH Series Finals[61][62] | 2nd |
5th |
Personal life
Occupation
Between 2014 and 2016 Colvin worked as a trainee solicitor with A&L Goodbody in Dublin.[10][65][66] After qualifying as a lawyer in 2017 she began working as an employment law specialist with DWF in Belfast.[10][67][68][69][70] Together with Gillian Pinder, Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan and Deirdre Duke, Colvin was one of five lawyers in the Ireland squad at the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup.[71]
Engagement
In January 2018, while celebrating her 28th birthday in Salzburg, Austria, Colvin got engaged to Matthew Holden from South Africa. The couple met in 2012 while Colvin was on a four-month visit to New Zealand.[6][68]
Honours
- Women's Hockey World Cup
- Runners Up: 2018
- Women's FIH Hockey World League
- Winners: 2015 Dublin, 2017 Kuala Lumpur
- Women's FIH Hockey Series
- Runners Up: 2019 Banbridge
- Women's Four Nations Cup
- Runners Up: 2017
- Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
- Runners Up: 2012
- Women's Irish Hockey League
- Winners: 2008–09: 1
- Runners Up: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15: 3
- Irish Senior Cup
- Winners: 2009–10: 1
- Runners Up: 2011–12: 1
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