| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Audrey Joan Sawers | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 1999 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Ulster University Elks | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2019 | Canada U–21 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Canada | 37 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Audrey Joan Sawers (born 22 November 1999) [1] is a field hockey player from Canada. [2] [3]
Audrey Sawers was born in Vancouver, and grew up in the suburb of North Vancouver. [2] [4]
She studied at Lafayette College. [5]
Sawers is currently playing in the Irish Hockey League for the Ulster University Elks. [6]
Sawers made her senior international debut in 2021. She earned her first cap in a test match against the United States in Charlotte. [7]
In 2022 she was a member of Canada's historic bronze medal-winning team at the Pan American Cup in Santiago. The bronze medal secured Canada's qualification to the FIH World Cup for the first time in 28 years. [8] Sawers went on to compete at the FIH World Cup held in Terrassa and Amsterdam, with the squad ultimately finishing in last place. [7] She also went on to represent Team Canada at the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [9]
She competed at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. [10]
In 2024 she was a member of the Canadian squad that failed to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics at the FIH Olympic Qualifiers in Valencia. [11] [12] She returned to Spain later in the year to compete at the 2023–24 FIH Nations Cup in Terrassa. [7]
Following the XXII Commonwealth Games, Sawers was involved in a doping incident involving canrenone. This incident resulted in a one-month sanction from the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. [13]
The following is a list of goals scored by Sawers at international level. [7]
| Goal | Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 October 2023 | Centro de Hockey Césped Claudia Schüler, Santiago, Chile |  Mexico | 4–0 | 5–0 | 2023 Pan American Games | [14] |
| 2 | 18 January 2024 | Estadio Beteró, Valencia, Spain |  Ukraine | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2024 FIH Olympic Qualifiers | [15] |
