Dennis Hay
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
5 October 1949 Aberdeen, Scotland | ||
| Died |
15 June 2025 (aged 75) Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1966–1973 | Inverleith | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| Great Britain | |||
| 1964–1974 | Scotland | ||
Dennis Hay (5 October 1940 – 15 June 2025)[1]) was a Scottish field hockey player, who competed for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[2]
Biography
Hay played club hockey for Inverleith and at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament.[3]
His brother Ken also played hockey.[4]
Later he became a coach, taking Scotland to the 1986 Women's Hockey World Cup,[5] leading the GB Women's Team to the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, after having finished in fourth place at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He is widely regarded as the father of hockey at Edinburgh University Men's Hockey Club, at the University of Edinburgh.
In collaboration with sprints coach Stuart Dempster Dennis assisted writing "101 Youth Hockey Drills" (A+C Black, London) in 2008 with a revised version in 2010. The book provides hockey drills based on movement patterns relating to hockey.
References
- ^ "Dennis HAY Obituary (2025) - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh - The Scotsman". Legacy.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dennis Hay". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
- ^ "Hockey notes". Aberdeen Evening Express. 17 March 1973. Retrieved 6 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Dennis Hay". Scottish Hockey. 19 June 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
External links
- Dennis Hay at Olympics.com
- Dennis Hay at Team GB
- Dennis Hay at Olympedia
- Dennis Hay at the British Olympic Committee Archived 31 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine