Timothy Christopher Atkins (born 24 March 1990) is a British field hockey player who played for the Scotland men's national field hockey team.
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| Born |
24 March 1990 Oxford, England | |||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| Wallingford | ||||||||||||||
| Team Bath | ||||||||||||||
| Richmond | ||||||||||||||
| Essendon, Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Reading | |||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Surbiton | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Old Georgians | |||||||||||||
| 2022–2025 | Clifton Robinson | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
| 2017– | Scotland | 33 | (2) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
editAtkins was born in Oxford, was educated at Streatley School and The Oratory School.[1]
Atkins started his hockey career at the age of 5 after joining Wallingford Hockey Club.[2] He played the majority of his senior hockey club career at Reading Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League.[3][4]
While at Reading, his won first international cap for Scotland in March 2017 at World League 2[5][6][7][8] and won a gold medal with Scotland at the 2017 Men's EuroHockey Championship II in Glasgow.[9]
At the end of the 2017–18 season, he left Reading to play for Surbiton Hockey Club.[10]
in August 2019, he was selected in the Scotland squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship[11] and around the same time, he signed for Old Georgians Hockey Club for the beginning of the 2019–20 season.
He is also a type 1 diabetic working closely with Diabetes UK.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Tim Atkins pofile". Scottish Hockey. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
- ^ "Former Wildcat and club player on international duty this weekend".
- ^ "Scottish Squad announced - News - Reading Hockey Club". www.readinghockeyclub.org.uk.
- ^ "Hockey: Reading's Tom Carson picked by GB as Tim Atkins plays for Scotland". Reading Chronicle.
- ^ "Scotland men's squad announced for World League 2".
- ^ "Hockey World League Semi-Final: Scotland lose play-off to South Korea". 22 June 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Scotland men's squad announced for World League 2".
- ^ "Korea v Scotland - Men's World Hockey League - 9th/10th Play-Off - Lee Valley Hockey Centre".
- ^ "EuroHockey Championship 2017: Scotland beat Wales in final". BBC Sport. 12 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
- ^ "Hockey: Tim Atkins leaves Reading for Surbiton". England Hockey. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
- ^ "Scotland men's squad announced for Belfius EuroHockey Championship in Antwerp". www.scottish-hockey.org.uk. Scottish Hockey. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ "High profile supporters". Diabetes UK.