HER Maartje Paumen
maartje Paumen is a midfield player who only 22 years of age the penalty corner
plays for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. She specialist is fast becoming a key player of
also plays for the Netherlands national the Dutch national team. In Beijing she has
team and she was part of the Dutch squad scored in every single game the Netherlands
that became World Champion at the 2006 have played, apart from the final, and her
Women’s Hockey World Cup and which won goal tally at the Games is now an Olympic
the 2007 Champions Trophy Quilmes. At record - she has smashed the previous
record of eight goals by getting 11
over the two weeks of the tournament.
WaTCH!
Despite this being her first Olympics, if
maaRTJE
she had scored only two more goals in
Beijing she would have been the highest
scoring Dutch woman in Olympic history.
Paumen was, without a doubt, the star of
Beijing and was many spectators player
of the tournament. With the Champions
Trophy ‘09 on the horizon watch out for
OLYMPIC
more records to be broken.
HIM Eddie Ockenden
Ockenden is the rising star of the Netherlands, Ockenden was easily man-
Kookaburras team and despite his age of-the-match as he scored two sensational
(he’s still only 21), he has had no difficulty close-range goals and set-up another.
YOUNG
adjusting to international hockey since WorldHockey Young Player of the Year here
debuting in 2006. He was named best young he comes...
player at the 2007 and 2008
Champions Trophy tournaments
and is capable of playing as a
WaTCH!
striker or in the midfield. Speed is
EddIE
his key weapon and he is a difficult
player for opposition defenders to
track.
Ockenden scored 6 goals in
GUNS
Beijing - all of them from open
play - and proved that he will soon
become champion of his craft
and anchorman of his side. In the
bronze medal match against the
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