Huw Jones (field hockey)

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Huw Jones
Personal information
Born (1980-09-15) 15 September 1980 (age 44)
Nairobi, Kenya
Playing position Midfield
Senior career
YearsTeam
1998–1999 Sourport
1999–2002 Teddington
2003–2006 Hampstead & Westminster
2007–2013 Reading
2013–2014 Oxted
National team
YearsTeamCapsGoals
2002–2014 Wales

Huw Jones (born 15 September 1980) is a former field hockey player who represented Wales. He competed for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. His brother is Zak Jones. [1]

Biography

Jones, born in Nairobi, [2] played club hockey for Stourport Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League before joining Teddington Hockey Club in September 1999. [3] While at Teddington, he represented Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. [4]

He moved from Teddington to Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club [5] and then signed for Reading Hockey Club [6] and played for them for five years before joining Oxted Hockey Club for the 2013–14 season. [7]

While at Oxted in 2014, he was selected to represent the Welsh team [2] at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland in the men's tournament. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "There is a sense you are part of a greater team: Wales hockey's Huw Jones". The Hockey Paper. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014: Team Wales". BBC Sport. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "Hockey" . Birmingham Daily Post. 2 October 1999. Retrieved 9 August 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Commonwealth Games: HOCKEY: Williams and his men ready for Games challenge; Game against Canada vital to Welsh ambitions". Western Mail Cardiff. 22 July 2002. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  5. ↑ "HWHC - A History". Hampstead & Westminster Hockey Club. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Hockey: Wales name line-up for Euro bid". Wales Online. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "NOW: Pensions Men's Premier League: Preview, Part 1". Top of the D. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "Hockey men, Wales". 2014 Commonwealth Games Official website. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
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