Benjamin Robert Hawes (born 28 July 1980 in Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

) is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 player who plays in midfield or as a half back.

Competing for England

England national field hockey team

The England national field hockey team represents England in international field hockey. The team finished in fifth-place in the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup in Mönchengladbach, Germany....

 and Great Britain

Great Britain and Northern Ireland national field hockey team

The Great Britain national field hockey team represents the United Kingdom in Olympic field hockey tournaments. They won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....

 at numerous tournaments, he represented Great Britain in Field hockey at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics (captain). He has 120 caps representing England and 64 caps representing Great Britain as of 11 August 2010.

He is an elected member of the British Olympic Association Athlets Commission.