Carla Somerville is a former 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 from Canada

Canada

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, who earned a total number of 97 international caps for the Women's Senior National Team

Canada women's national field hockey team

The Canada women's national field hockey team represents Canada in international field hockey competitions. The women's team made its first international appearance at the 1978 Women's Hockey World Cup in Madrid, Spain, finishing in fifth place....

 during her career. On national level Somerville, a resident of Edmonton, Alberta, played for Edmonton Women's FHA.

Currently, she's the head coach of the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...

 Pandas

Alberta Pandas

The Alberta Pandas are the women's athletic teams that represent the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The men's teams are known as the Alberta Golden Bears. The Pandas compete in all Canadian Interuniversity Sport-sanctioned female sports, as well as tennis .-External links:*...

 field hockey team, and is the reigning Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport

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 Coach of the Year after guiding the Pandas to their first-ever CIS championship in 2005.

International Senior Tournaments

• 1995 – Pan American Games
  1995 Pan American Games
  The 12th Pan American Games were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from March 12 to March 26, 1995. After 44 years, this was the Pan American Games first return to the country that hosted the first Games, in 1951.-Overview:...
  
  , Mar del Plata, Argentina (3rd)
• 1995 – Olympic Qualifier, Cape Town, South Africa (7th)
• 1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Harare, Zimbabwe (11th)
• 1998 – Commonwealth Games
  1998 Commonwealth Games
  The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 11 September to 21 September 1998 making it the first Asian country to act as host and the last Commonwealth Games for the 20th century. A record 70 nations supplied 3638 athletes...
  
  , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (not ranked)
• 1999 – Pan American Games
  Hockey at the 1999 Pan American Games
  The Field Hockey Tournament at the 1999 Pan American Games was held on the pitch of the Kildonan East College near Winnipeg, Canada, from Saturday July 24 to Wednesday August 4. It served as a qualification tournament for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Umpires: Xavier Adell Cameron...
  
  , Winnipeg, Canada (3rd)
• 2001 – Pan American Cup
  2001 Women's Pan American Cup
  The 2001 Women's Pan American Cup is the first edition of the Pan American Cup for women. It took place at the Mona Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica from March 8 to March 18, 2001....
  
  , Kingston, Jamaica (3rd)
• 2001 – World Cup Qualifier, Amiens/Abbeville, France (10th)

External links

• Profile on Field Hockey Canada