Former FH Standout, Roisin Upton, Headed to Tokyo

6/21/2021 10:01:00 PM | Field Hockey

2015 UConn All-American Roisin Upton (2012-15) has been selected to compete with the Irish National team in the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.

The players were announced on the back of the EuroHockey Championships which took place in Amsterdam last week. 27-year-old Upton scored a brace of penalties at the Euros for Ireland. Her Catholic Institute teammate Naomi Carroll is also selected in the squad.

In November 2019 the women's hockey team became the first Irish women's hockey team to qualify for the Olympic Games, when they bettered Canada on Irish soil in front of a home crowd. The Tokyo 2020 team is largely formed from that record breaking crew, which also features the majority of the 2018 World Cup Silver Medal winning squad.

In Tokyo, the team will compete in Pool A, alongside South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, India and Olympic Champions, Great Britain. Their first competition takes place on Saturday 24^th July against South Africa.