Chloe Rogers
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Chloe Naomi Rogers is an English 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 midfield and forward. She made her senior international debut for the England women's national field hockey team
England women's national field hockey team
The England women's national field hockey team represents England in international women's field hockey. England won the 2006 Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier.-World Cup:* 1990 – 4th place* 1998 – 9th place...

 in October 2003 versus Japan at Chelmer Park, Chelmsford, Essex.

Hockey

She plays club hockey for Leicester and won a bronze medal at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games in Australia.

She was the England women's team's top goal scorer at the 2006 World Cup in Madrid, Spain, helping the team to finish seventh, and other international honours include a KT Cup gold medal and a Setanta Sports Trophy gold medal.

Chloe scored the opening goal in Chelmsford's 2-1 win over Canterbury in the final of the English indoor hockey championships in 2006. Chelmsford went to Hamburg, Germany in February 2007, to take part in the women's Eurohockey Indoor Club Champions Cup. They finished sixth overall in the competition, with Chloe scoring at least once in every Chelmsford match.

Her previous hockey clubs include, Dunmow HC, Braintree HC, Bishop's Stortford HC, and 8 seasons with Chelmsford HC. She joined Leicester HC for the start of the 2008/09 season, however Chloe returned to Chelmsford for the 2008/09 indoor hockey season.

At Chelmsford she won a European outdoor silver medal and a European indoor bronze medal and under Karen Brown's coaching the side came runners up in the Premier League.

As of April 2008, she has received 50 caps for the senior England women's national field hockey team
England women's national field hockey team
The England women's national field hockey team represents England in international women's field hockey. England won the 2006 Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier.-World Cup:* 1990 – 4th place* 1998 – 9th place...

 and 29 for the Great Britain squad.

England women's national field hockey team
England women's national field hockey team
The England women's national field hockey team represents England in international women's field hockey. England won the 2006 Women's Field Hockey World Cup Qualifier.-World Cup:* 1990 – 4th place* 1998 – 9th place...

 won bronze at the Champions Challenge staged in Baku, Azerbaijan and Chloe was part of the team.

England's ladies qualified for the Beijing Olympics at the Eurohockey Nations Championship staged at Belle Vue, in Manchester, during August 2007. Chloe was a part of the team that came 3rd and won a bronze medal, during the bronze medal match with Spain she received her 50th international cap for England.

Chloe has the nickname in the Chelmsford team of "Ginger", after the dancer, Ginger Rogers.

During the Summer of 2009 Chloe played in the Champions Trophy in Sydney, and won bronze in Amsterdam at the Eurohockey Nations Championship 2009 with England.

In September 2008 she moved to Leicester Hockey Club, and in September 2009 she spent a month playing for Bayleys Midlands as their visiting international in New Zealand's National Hockey League, and won a silver medal with Bayleys Midlands.

During December 2009, Chloe gained her first cap for the England Indoor Hockey Team, scoring the third goal of a 3-1 victory against Scotland at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. She was also vice-captain of the team.

Chloe is a part of Team Essex, run by Essex County Council, she helps to promote sport and well being in Essex through coaching sessions at local schools and by talking about her hockey playing.

Essex County Council are running a programme linking the Team Essex Ambassdor athletes with local artists. Chloe is being created in multimedia by Colchester artist, Tim Skinner, with the work going on display in March 2010.

Chloe writes a blog for the Team Essex project.

Olympics

Great Britain finished 6th in the hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics.

The result secured Champions Trophy hockey for 2009 in Sydney, Australia, and 2010 in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Chloe played with the number 12 shirt and was yellow carded and sent to the sin bin during a pool game against Japan. GB eventually won the match 2-1.

Champions Trophy, World Cup and Commonwealth Games 2010

Chloe was a part of the team that came third in the Champions Trophy staged in Nottingham, the best ever performance of an England women's hockey team in this annual competition. Along with the first ever women's hockey bronze medal for an England side at the World Cup in Rosario and another Commonwealth Games bronze in Delhi

Golf

Chloe has played golf from a young age and at the start of July 2007 won the BUSA Women's Individual Strokeplay Championship. As a result of this she led the BUSA Women's England team to victory in the Home Golf Internationals at the start of September.

This is in addition to her 2004 title of Essex Ladies Champion. In 2000, she was one of the youngest ever finalists in the Daily Telegraph Junior Golf Championship.

Awards

Chloe is the Essex Chronicle Sports Personality of the Year 2009 and was presented with the award at the County Ground in Chelmsford by Essex and former Zimbabwean cricketer Grant Flower. The award is voted for by readers of the Essex Chronicle and Brentwood Gazette.

Chloe also was a runner-up for the second year in-a-row at the Essex Sports Awards 2009, run by sportessex.

She has held the Marjorie Pollard Salver, presented by the Hockey Writers' Club of Great Britain in July 2008 during the Setanta Sports Trophy in Dublin.

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