Candice is a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 forward from South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, who did not make it into the national squad that finished 9th at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 in Athens

Athens

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. The striker made her international debut in 2003. comes from Pretoria

Pretoria

Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

, and is nickname

Nickname

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d Cands. She plays for a provincial team called Northern Gauteng. She announced her retirement from international hockey on March 12, 2007.

Education

attended Stirling Primary and Clarendon High School for Girls

Clarendon High School for Girls

Clarendon High School for Girls is a girls' secondary school situated in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was founded in 1903 as East London Girls' High School.-History:...

. She studied marketing at Natal Technikon

Durban University of Technology

The Durban University of Technology is a University of Technology in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was formed in 2002 by the merger of Technikon Natal and ML Sultan Technikon and was previously known as the Durban Institute of Technology. It has four campuses in Durban, and two in Pietermaritzburg...

, and went on to the University of Pretoria

University of Pretoria

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Personal

Candice's mother, Beverly, played six times for the South Africa hockey team. Her sister, Danielle, was a member of the South African Junior World Cup team in 2005, and a member of the Under-18 team in 2005, and captain of it in 2006.

International Senior Tournaments

• 2002 – Champions Challenge
  2002 Women's Champions Challenge (field hockey)
  The first edition of the Women's Champions Challenge took place at the Randburg Hockey Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event started on Saturday February 9 and ended on Sunday February 17.=...
  
  , Johannesburg (4th)
• 2005 – Champions Challenge
  2005 Women's Champions Challenge (field hockey)
  The third edition of the Women's Champions Challenge took place at the USA Field Hockey National Training Center in Virginia Beach, United States. The event started on Friday July 8 and ended on Saturday July 16...
  
  , Virginia Beach (2nd)

External links

• Profile on SA Hockey Association