Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Cardiff, Wales | 23 October 1993|||||||||||||
Playing position | Midfield | |||||||||||||
Senior career | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||
2012–2015 | Cardiff & Met | |||||||||||||
2016–2017 | BH&BC Breda | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Reading | |||||||||||||
2018–2020 | HC Tilburg | |||||||||||||
2020–2022 | Cardiff & Met | |||||||||||||
2023–2025 | Hampstead & Westminster | |||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
2014– | Wales | 123 | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dale Hutchinson (born 23 October 1993) is a Welsh field hockey player who has represented Wales. He competed for Wales at two Commonwealth Games.
Hutchinson was born in Cardiff, educated at Fitzalan High School and studied at Cardiff Metropolitan University, where he played for the Cardiff & Met Hockey Club. [1]
While at Cardiff he made his Welsh debut against Spain in 2014. [1] He spent a season playing professionally for BH&BC Breda before returning to the UK and signing on for Reading Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League for the 2017–18 season. [2]
In 2018 he was selected to represent the Welsh team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. [3] After the Games, he returned to the Netherlands, spending two seasons with HC Tilburg before a second spell at Cardiff & Met. [1]
He was selected to represent Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, [4] [5] helping his nation to a sixth place finish during the men's tournament after being defeated by New Zealand in the fifth place play off match on 7 August 2022. [6]
After signing for Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club, he was part of the Welsh team that played at the 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship. [7]
In 2025, he helped Wales win the gold medal at the European Championship II, defeating Ireland in the final. [8] [9]