Lindsey Carlisle Athlete
Lindsey Gay Carlisle is a field hockey player from South Africa, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. The defender comes from Johannesburg, and is nicknamed Linds. She plays for a provincial team called Southern Gauteng. Carlisle was brought up in Zimbabwe and played hockey over there, but moved to South Africa to further her hockey career. She runs a hockey school in the Gauteng Province. She is the elder sister of former Zimbabwe cricket captain, Stuart Carlisle. Carlisle was named captain of the 243-person travelling Team SA for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. Participating in her third consecutive Commonwealth Games, she will be supported by boxer Bongani Mahlangu, who was named vice-captain, while Commonwealth Games 800m gold medallist and athletics team captain Mbulaeni Mulaudzi will carry the flag, in leading Team SA into the MCG Stadium, for the opening ceremony on 15 March.
Personal facts
| Birth date | April 22, 1969 |
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