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Olympian Visits Four Oaks School
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lympic bronze medalist, Laura Unsworth visited her old primary school last month to talk to current pupils and give a hockey lesson to a number of pupils. Unsworth, 25, is originally from the Four Oaks area of Birmingham and attended Coppice Primary School, where she originally started playing hockey in year 10. From there, she went on
by Ryan Sparrow
Features Co-ordinator to play at Sutton Coldfield Hockey Club and eventually managed to play for the Team GB women's hockey team at the 2012 London Olympics, where she and her team won bronze medals. Unsworth, a former pupil of Coppice Primary School, went back to her old school with In-
vestec, who sponsored the Team GB women's hockey team, in partnership with Quicksticks to promote hockey to junior school children, donating hockey equipment to the school, hoping to eventually create the Olympians of tomorrow. She said “I was invited back by Coppice and Investec Quicksticks. Investec are sponsors of the England and GB women's hockey team and are now in
partnership with Quicksticks to get junior school children into hockey.” On the ability of the children she spent time with, she said “they're very good hockey players and at this school they do have a hockey club anyway. So they're all competent players which is a good sign for the future and hopefully, there's going to be some future Olympians training today”
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