Rose Keddell

Rose Keddell

Personal information
Born	31 January 1994 Tauranga, New Zealand
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position	Midfield/Defence
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Midlands
National team
2012–present	New Zealand	49	(5)
Medal record Women's field hockey Competitor for  New Zealand Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Tournament Summer Youth Olympics 2010 Singapore Girls' team

Elizabeth Rose Keddell (born 31 January 1994) is a New Zealand field hockey player. She has competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (the Black Sticks Women) since 2012, including at the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Keddell was born in Tauranga and attended Bethlehem College. She is a first cousin to Olympic gold medallist rower Mahé Drysdale.^[2]

She competed the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics as part of the New Zealand girls' hockey team where she won a bronze medal. She was selected for the Black Sticks in November 2012^[3] and played her first match against India in Napier on 8 December 2012.^[4]

References

1. "Rose Keddell - Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games". Retrieved 23 July 2014.
2. Exelby, Kelly (3 June 2010). "Rose has right temperament to stick it to 'em". Bay of Plenty Times. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
3. "Hockey: Eight newcomers in Black Sticks womens' squad". The New Zealand Herald. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
4. "Rose Keddell". Hockey New Zealand. Retrieved 23 July 2014.