Rhett Halkett

Rhett Halkett (born 2 May 1986) is a South African former field hockey player who is the assistant coach of the India national field hockey team.

Club career Halkett left South Africa in 2010 to play for Den Bosch in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. After his contract expired in 2013 he left Den Bosch for Laren. After one season at Laren, he played 5 seasons in the German Bundesliga for Mannheimer HC and UHC Hamburg.

International career Halkett began playing for the South African national team in 2009. He competed at the 2010 Hockey World Cup in India, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India, the 2012 Summer Olympics in England, the 2014 Hockey World Cup in The Netherlands, the Commonwealth Games.

Coaching career After he retired playing in 2019 at UHC Hamburg he became the assistant coach for the first women's team of the Hamburg club. In August 2020 he was appointed as the assistant coach of the Netherlands women's national team.