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Full name | Anna Grace Willocks | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Palmerston North, New Zealand | 29 December 1996||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
2019–2024 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||
2024– | Central Falcons | ||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
2023– | New Zealand | 19 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
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Anna Grace Willocks (born 29 December 1996) [1] is an indoor and field hockey player from New Zealand. [2] [3]
Anna Willocks grew up in Palmerston North, a town on New Zealand's North Island. [4]
She is an alumnus of St Joseph's University, graduating with a psychology major and an autism behaviour studies minor. [5]
In the Premier Hockey League, Willocks plays for the Central Falcons. [6] [7] [8] She has also previously represented Canterbury in the Ford National Hockey Championship. [6] [2]
Willocks made her senior international debut for the Black Sticks in 2023. She made her first appearances during the Christchurch Leg of the fourth season of the FIH Pro League. [9] Later in the year she represented the team again during a test series against the United States in Charlotte. [10]
In 2024 she appeared in her first major tournament, taking the field during the 2023–24 FIH Nations Cup in Terrassa. [9] [11]