Tim Atkins

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Tim Atkins
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Personal information
Full name Timothy Atkins
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Old Georgians
Senior career
YearsTeam
Wallingford
Team Bath
Richmond
Essendon, Melbourne
Reading
0000–2019 Surbiton
2019–present Old Georgians
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–present Scotland 33 (2)
Last updated on: 19 January 2020

Timothy Atkins is a British field hockey player. He plays for the Scotland men's national field hockey team and plays club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League for Old Georgians Hockey Club. He is also a type 1 diabetic working closely with Diabetes UK. [1]

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His first international cap for Scotland came in March 2017 at World League 2. [2] In August 2019, he was selected in the Scotland squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship. [3]

Club career

Atkins started his hockey career at the age of 5, where he joined Wallingford Hockey Club. [4] He has played the majority of his senior hockey career at Reading Hockey Club. [5] Before he joined Old Georgians he played for Surbiton. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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References

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