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| Born | 29 June 1990 | |||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| 2013-2018 | Reading | |||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Beerschot | |||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Old Georgians | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
| 2013–2018 | England & GB | 77 | (23) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Tom Carson (born 29 June 1990) is an English international field hockey player who played as a forward for England and Great Britain.
Carson is the oldest of four brothers, all of whom attended Wellington School, Somerset, where their father was a boarding housemaster. His younger brother James Carson has represented Wales in international hockey. [1] In January 2014 he won a bronze medal at the 2012–13 Men's FIH Hockey World League Final in New Delhi. [2]
He played club hockey for six years, including two years as captain for Reading in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division. He played in Belgium during the 2018–19 season for Beerschot. [3]
Carson also played for University of Exeter. [4] while he was a student at the University of Exeter he founded YoungOnes Apparel, a fashion company which began by making and selling onesies. [5] He appeared on an episode of Dragons' Den , where they were offered £75,000 by Duncan Bannatyne, which they ultimately turned down. [6]
Carson joined Old Georgians for the 2019/20 season [7] and was part of the Old Georgians team that won two league and cup doubles during the 2021-22 season and 2022-23 seasons and the league title during the 2023-24 season. [8]
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