Kate Woods (field hockey)
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Birth name | Kate Hector | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | 11 October 1981|||||||||||||||||||
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Kate Woods (born 11 October 1981) is a South African field hockey player.
Woods was born Kate Hector on 11 October 1981 in Johannesburg, Gauteng. She attended Durban Girls' College. She was a member of the national squad that finished 9th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The midfielder's hometown is Cape Town, and she is nicknamed KT. She plays for a provincial team based in Western Province.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed with the South Africa women's national field hockey team in the women's tournament.[1]
She is married to water polo player Duncan Woods.[2] Her brother is first-class cricketer Benjamin Hector.[2]
International Senior Tournaments[]
- 2003 – All Africa Games (Abuja, Nigeria)
- 2004 – Olympic Games (Athens, Greece)
- 2005 – Champions Challenge (Virginia Beach, United States)
- 2006 – Commonwealth Games (Melbourne, Australia)
- 2006 – World Cup (Madrid, Spain)
- 2008 – Olympic Games (Beijing, PR China)
- 2012 – Olympic Games (London, United Kingdom)
References[]
- ^ "London 2012 Profile". Archived from the original on 24 May 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cook, Jonathan (16 March 2012). "Kate on course for third Olympics". Independent Online.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kate Hector-Woods". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
Categories:
- Living people
- 1981 births
- South African female field hockey players
- South African people of British descent
- Olympic field hockey players of South Africa
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players from Johannesburg
- Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
- Sportspeople from Cape Town
- African Games gold medalists for South Africa
- Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
- South African field hockey biography stubs