Carole Thate

Carole Helene Antoinette Thate (born 6 December 1971, in Utrecht) is a Dutch former field hockey player, who played 168 international matches for the Netherlands, in which she scored forty goals. She made her debut on 20 November 1989 in a friendly match against England.

Biography Thate was a member of the Holland squad that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She captained the team for several years, and played as a midfielder for Dutch clubs Shinty, Schaerweyde, Kampong and Amsterdam. After she quit playing hockey and became the director of the Dutch Johan Cruijff Foundation in Amsterdam. Thate is married, Their second son, Cooper, was born in October 2008.

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In 1996, while at James Madison, Thate won the Honda Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best field hockey player.