Tsoanelo Pholo (born 13 December 1982 in Johannesburg) is a field hockey player from South Africa, who was a member of the national squad that finished 9th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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| Born |
13 December 1982 Maseru, Lesotho | |||||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||||||||
| 2004-2006 | South Africa | 9 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Indoor South Africa | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||
| -present | University of Johannesburg | |||||||||||||||||||
| -present | Southern Gauteng Junior | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | South African Junior | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Madikwe Rangers[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She was born in Maseru, Lesotho and later moved to Johannesburg where she still resides. and she is nicknamed Coach. Pholo played for a provincial team called Southern Gauteng. She was recruited to represent South Africa in the touch rugby World Cup in 1999. She also played soccer. After her retirement from playing international hockey, Pholo pursued her coaching ambitions.
Coach Pholo is an FIH (International Hockey Federation) Level 4 Accredited Field Hockey coach & FIH Coach Educator. She is head coach of the women's 1st team at the University of Johannesburg, head coach of the Southern Gauteng provincial Junior (Under 21) team, and she coached the South African team which won the 2018 African Youth Games in Algiers, Algeria and were semi-finalists at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She is the striker coach for the South Africa men's national field hockey team.
International senior tournaments
edit- 2003 – All Africa Games (Abuja, Nigeria)
- 2004 – Olympic Games (Athens, Greece)
- 2005 – Champions Challenge (Virginia Beach, United States)
- 2006 – World Cup (Madrid, Spain)
- 2007 – World Cup (Vienna, Austria)
References
edit- ^ Etheridge, Mark (6 November 2017). "Premier Hockey League coaches do battle for players". TeamSA. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
External links
edit- Official website
- Tsoanelo Pholo at the International Hockey Federation
- Tsoanelo Pholo at the South African Hockey Association
- Tsoanelo Pholo at Olympics.com
- Tsoanelo Pholo at Olympedia
- Tsoanelo Pholo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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