Dean Warren Couzins 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...

 player from New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, who earned his first cap for the national team, nickname

Nickname

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d The Black Sticks, in 2001 against Malaysia. The defender played the latter part of 2005 for Dutch club Breda

Breda

Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...

, returning to join the NZ team for the Oceania Cup in November. Dean joined Dutch club Kampong Utrecht in 2006-2007 helping them to a successful first year in the Dutch first league.

International senior tournaments

• 2001 – World Cup Qualifier
• 2002 – World Cup
  2002 Men's Hockey World Cup
  The 2002 Hockey World Cup for men is the 10th tournament of the Hockey World Cup, held from February 24 to March 9, 2002 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
  
  
• 2002 – Commonwealth Games
  2002 Commonwealth Games
  The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The XVII Commonwealth Games was the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing London's 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating.After the 1996 Manchester...
  
  
• 2003 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
• 2003 – Champions Challenge
  2003 Men's Champions Challenge (field hockey)
  The 2003 Men's Champions Challenge is the second tournament of the Champions Challenge, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from July 19 to July 27, 2003.Participating nations were England, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, host South Africa, and Korea...
  
  
• 2004 – Olympic Qualifier
• 2004 – Summer Olympics
  Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Field Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.-Men's...
  
  
• 2004 – Champions Trophy
  2004 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)
  The 2004 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy took place in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan from December 4 to December 12, 2004.- :Head Coach: Bernhard Peters# Ulrich Bubolz # Adrian Kühn # Ulrich Klaus# Philipp Crone...
  
  
• 2005 – Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
• 2006 – Commonwealth Games
  2006 Commonwealth Games
  The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
  
  
• 2006 – World Cup
• 2007 – Champions Challenge
  2007 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge
  The 2007 Men's Hockey Champions Challenge was the fourth edition of the bi-annual Champions Challenge. It took place in Boom, Belgium from June 23 to July 1, 2007....
  
  
• 2008 – Olympic Games
  Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held over a fourteen day period beginning on August 10, and culminating with the medal finals on August 22 and August 23...