Angie Skirving
Angela Robyn Lambert OAM (née Skirving; born 1 February 1981, in Toowoomba) is an Australian former field hockey player. She captained the under 21 Australian women's field hockey squad before entering the Hockeyroos in 1998 and in 2000 won gold at the Sydney Olympics. Angie went on to play in two more Olympic games and played over 225 games for Australia. Apart from playing in the Hockeyroos she played for the AHL Queensland Scorchers.
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| Birth name | Angela Robyn Skirving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 February 1981 (age 43) Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The youngest of the local Australian Representatives, Skirving began playing hockey at the age of 12 and was selected in the Queensland no.1 Rep. team when 13. She debuted for the Hockeyroos at 17. In 2001 she was named the winner of the International Hockey's Junior Player of the year. In that same year, Skirving was awarded the Order of Australia Medal OAM for services to sport in Australia. Skirving married Australian Kookaburras goalie Stephen Lambert in December 2006. The pair have been described as Australia's Golden Couple of Hockey.
In 2015, Lambert was named in the Queensland Scorchers Team of the Decade (2005-2015). and in 2019 was added to the QAS Hall Of Fame.
Skirving is the hockey co-ordinator at Morteon Bay College, where she also works as a teacher. Skirving is currently playing in the Brisbane Premier League 1 competition for Ascot Women's Hockey Club as a player coach winning Premierships in 2017 and 2021.