Denise Marston-Smith (born 23 May 1977) is an English

England

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 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...

 international, who was a member of the England

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...

 and Great Britain

Great Britain

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 women's field hockey team. She started playing hockey at the age of 12 at Gordano School near Bristol

Bristol

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. A player from Clifton Ladies and TeamBath

TeamBath

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 Marston-Smith scored the only goal against Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

and gained over 100 caps. She currently (2007) plays for Olton and West Warwickshire Ladies.