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Hall of Fame

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Hall of Fame

Celebrating the East Grinstead players who have gone on to represent England, Great Britain and their countries on the world stage — Olympic champions, Commonwealth champions, World Cup players and internationals who have all worn the EG shirt.

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Seven Olympic champions have played for East Grinstead — from Great Britain's gold-medal team in Seoul 1988 to Rio 2016 — and Ellie Rayer, Tess Howard and Lily Walker won Commonwealth gold with England in Birmingham in 2022.

The inductees

Internationals & Olympians

Fourteen players whose careers took them from East Grinstead to the very top of the international game.

David Luckes
England & GB · 3× Olympian

David Luckes

125 caps for England and Great Britain between 1989 and 2000, three Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000) and Commonwealth bronze in 1998.

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Ellie Rayer
England & GB · Olympic Bronze 2020

Ellie Rayer

One of the fastest players in the world game. Olympic bronze at Tokyo 2020, Commonwealth gold in Birmingham in 2022, and a key figure in EG's title-winning Women's 1st XI.

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Ian Taylor
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Ian Taylor

Goalkeeper in Great Britain's gold-medal side at Seoul 1988, after bronze in Los Angeles 1984 and World Cup silver with England in 1986.

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Jason Lee
England & GB · World Cup

Jason Lee

82 England and 35 GB caps, two Olympic Games (1992, 1996) and the 1998 World Cup — before going on to coach the England and GB men.

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Kirsty Mackay
England · Goalkeeper

Kirsty Mackay

England international goalkeeper who was pivotal in EG's promotion to the Premier League and the club's National Indoor titles in 2016 and 2019.

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Laura Unsworth
GB · Olympic Gold 2016

Laura Unsworth

The first British hockey player to win three Olympic medals — bronze in 2012, gold in 2016 and bronze in 2020 — plus European gold in 2015.

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Lily Walker
England & GB · Commonwealth Gold 2022

Lily Walker

England and GB midfielder who won Commonwealth gold in Birmingham in 2022, weeks after playing at the World Cup.

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Martin Haner
Germany · Olympic Gold 2012

Martin Häner

Played for EG in 2008/09, helping the Men's 1st XI to the club's historic Premier League title, and won Olympic gold (2012) and bronze (2016) with Germany.

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Mats Grambusch
Germany · Olympian

Mats Grambusch

Represented EG from 2009 to 2011 during the club's title-winning era, before a long international career with Germany.

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Richard Leman
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Richard Leman

Olympic gold in Seoul 1988 and bronze in Los Angeles 1984, plus World Cup silver in 1986. A long-standing EGHC figure and influential within England Hockey.

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Robert Clift
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Robert Clift

Inside left in Great Britain's 1988 Olympic gold-medal team and a World Cup silver medallist with England in 1986.

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Sophie Bray
GB · Olympic Gold 2016

Sophie Bray

Olympic champion in Rio 2016 with 134 England and GB caps. Her goals took EG into the Premiership, and she scored four in the 2019 indoor Super6s final.

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GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Steve Batchelor

Olympic gold in Seoul 1988 and bronze in Los Angeles 1984, plus World Cup silver in 1986. Now passes the game on as a schools coach.

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Tess Howard
England & GB · Olympian · Commonwealth Gold 2022

Tess Howard

Olympian with Great Britain who scored in the Commonwealth final as England won gold in Birmingham in 2022, and a key part of EG's 2023 Premier League title side.

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EGHC Honours

A record of national success

The titles our 1st XIs have won, indoors and out.

Men · Outdoor

4× National League Champions

National League champions 1983 · 1984 · 2009 · 2010
Runners-up 1989 · 2011 · 2012 · 2014 · 2015

Men · Indoor

14× National Indoor Champions

1986 · 1993 · 2005 · 2006 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2018 · 2019

Women · Outdoor

Premier League Champions 2023

Premier League runners-up 2020 · 2021
Conference East champions 2015 (runners-up 2014)
South Division 1 winners 2013 · Division 2 2012 · Division 3 2011
Sussex Premier Division winners 2010

Women · Indoor

6× Indoor Premier League Champions

Premier League champions 2016 · 2019 · 2022 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026
EuroHockey Indoor Club Champions Cup bronze medallists
Runners-up 2015
National Division 1 champions 2013 · Division 2 2012
Division 2 South 2011 · South League 2010

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David Luckes
England & GB · 3× Olympian

David Luckes

Goalkeeper · 125 England & GB caps (1989–2000) · Olympic Games 1992, 1996, 2000 · Commonwealth bronze 1998

David Luckes played in three Summer Olympics for Great Britain — Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 — and earned 125 caps for England and GB between 1989 and 2000. He represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, winning bronze in the men's hockey tournament. He played his club hockey for Surbiton and East Grinstead.

Off the pitch, Luckes wrote the initial feasibility study for the UK's 2012 Olympic bid and was in charge of Sport Competition for the London Organising Committee. He went on to become Director of Sport at the International Hockey Federation in Switzerland, and later associate director for Summer Olympic Sports and IF Relations at the International Olympic Committee.

He was raised in Bridgwater, Somerset.

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Ellie Rayer
England & GB · Olympic Bronze 2020

Ellie Rayer

Forward · Olympian · Olympic bronze, Tokyo 2020 · Commonwealth gold, Birmingham 2022 · EG Women's 1st XI

Ellie Rayer — also known as "the slayer" — has been described by the GB women's coach as the fastest hockey player in the world. Along with her speed she brings enthusiasm, great warm-ups, and will always give 100%, even with appendicitis.

She has her fair share of medals: an Olympic bronze from Tokyo 2020, and she was part of the first England women's team to win Commonwealth gold, in Birmingham in 2022 — alongside EG team-mates Tess Howard and Lily Walker.

At East Grinstead: Rayer helped bring home the Premier League title with the Women's 1st XI in 2023 and is a long-serving member of the squad — she practically bleeds blue and white.

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Ian Taylor
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Ian Taylor

Goalkeeper · Olympic gold, Seoul 1988 · Olympic bronze, Los Angeles 1984 · World Cup silver 1986 · European Cup silver 1987, bronze 1978

Ian Charles Boucher Taylor (born 24 September 1954) is a former England and Great Britain hockey goalkeeper. He was a member of Great Britain's gold-medal-winning squad at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul — while teaching at Bromsgrove School — having won bronze four years earlier in Los Angeles. With England he won silver at the 1986 World Cup, and European Cup silver in 1987 and bronze in 1978.

Taylor has held many roles in sports administration, including the Minister's nominee on the Sports Council, director of the GB Ice Hockey Board and a director of the British Olympic Association. He commentated for BBC Sport from 1988 to 1996, and has been chief executive of sportscotland and of SkillsActive, and CEO of London Irish Holdings.

Born in Bromsgrove, he studied at Borough Road College, Isleworth, where he later returned to lecture and coach. He played his club hockey for East Grinstead.

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Jason Lee
England & GB · World Cup

Jason Lee

82 England caps · 35 GB caps · 35 goals · Olympic Games 1992, 1996 · World Cup 1998 · England & GB head coach for 11 years

Jason David Lee (born 21 May 1970 in Hayes, Greater London) is an English hockey coach and former player. As a player he won 82 caps for England and 35 for Great Britain, scoring 35 goals. He played at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, retiring after the 1998 World Cup to take up coaching.

Lee coached England men from 2003 and Great Britain men from 2004. His squads competed at three successive Olympic Games (2004, 2008 and 2012), and he took England to their first ever European title at the 2009 EuroHockey Nations Championship, lifting them from 11th to 4th in the world rankings. After London 2012 he moved to the England women's squad, taking them to a world ranking high of 3rd and European silver in 2013. He stood down in 2014 as GB's longest-serving international head coach, after eleven years in charge.

He was named in Loughborough University's Sporting Hall of Fame in 2010, is a member of UK Sport's Elite Coach alumni, and now works in human performance for business and sport.

At East Grinstead: Lee played for EG in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has since helped drive the club's Performance Programme on the women's side.

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Kirsty Mackay
England · Goalkeeper

Kirsty Mackay

Goalkeeper · England international · EG's first senior women's international · Premier League promotion 2014/15 · National Indoor champions 2016, 2019

Kirsty Mackay (born 16 November 1986) is a goalkeeper for the England women's national hockey team. She has played her club hockey in the Women's Premier League for Bowdon Hightown.

At East Grinstead: Mackay was the first senior women's international to play for East Grinstead. Over four seasons she helped the club win promotion to the Premier League for the first time in its history in 2014/15, and helped the team become National Indoor Finals champions in 2016 and 2019 — qualifying for the European Indoor Championships in both years.

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Laura Unsworth
GB · Olympic Gold 2016

Laura Unsworth MBE

Midfielder / defender · Olympic gold 2016 · Olympic bronze 2012, 2020 · European gold 2015 · Commonwealth bronze 2010, silver 2014

Laura Unsworth (born 8 March 1988) is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder or defender for East Grinstead and the England and Great Britain national teams. She is the first British hockey player to win three Olympic medals.

Educated at Coppice Primary School, Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls and Loughborough University, she has also played for Holcombe, Loughborough Students and Sutton Coldfield.

Unsworth made her international debut in 2008. She was part of the Great Britain teams that won gold at the 2016 Olympics and bronze in 2012 and 2020. With England she has won three bronze, one silver and a gold medal at the European Championships — the gold coming in London in 2015 — and Commonwealth Games medals in 2010 and 2014.

At East Grinstead: Unsworth plays in the Women's Premier Division for EG, and was part of the squad that won the Ladies' first national Premier Indoor League title at Wembley in January 2016.

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Lily Walker
England & GB · Commonwealth Gold 2022

Lily Walker

Midfielder · England senior debut 2022 · GB debut 2023 · Commonwealth gold, Birmingham 2022 · World Cup 2022 · EuroHockey Championship 2023

Lily Walker is a speedy midfielder in EG's Women's 1st XI. She started playing hockey at the age of six at Cannock Hockey Club, where she spent ten years, before moving on to Repton School and the University of Birmingham, where she studied Social Policy.

She represented England at U16, U18 and U21 level, then won her first senior England cap in the FIH Pro League in April 2022 and her first Great Britain cap in April 2023. In the summer of 2022 she played at the World Cup in Spain and the Netherlands, and a few weeks later won Commonwealth Games gold with England in Birmingham — on her own university's pitch. She was also part of England's squad at the 2023 EuroHockey Championship in Mönchengladbach.

At East Grinstead: Lily joined the Women's 1st XI after their 2022/23 Premier League title, keen to help win it back to back and to join a club with, in her words, an amazing history and passion for the sport.

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Martin Häner
Germany · Olympic Gold 2012

Martin Häner

Germany debut 2005 · Olympic gold, London 2012 · Olympic bronze, Rio 2016 · EuroHockey silver 2021 · EG Premier League champion 2009

Martin Häner made his debut for the German national team in 2005. He won Olympic gold with Germany at London 2012 and bronze at Rio 2016. In 2021 he was named in the squads for the EuroHockey Championship — where he scored four goals as Germany took silver after losing the final to the Netherlands in a shoot-out — and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after which he retired from playing.

At East Grinstead: Häner played for EG in the 2008/09 season, when the men were crowned Premier League champions — winning the national top flight for the first time since the inter-league play-off final in the 1980s. He also played for EG indoors that season, the first in a run of eight Indoor Premiership titles.

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Mats Grambusch
Germany · Olympian

Mats Grambusch

Midfielder / forward · Germany captain · Rot-Weiss Köln · EG 2009–2011: outdoor & indoor national champion

Mats Jürgen Grambusch (born 4 November 1992) is a German hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Rot-Weiss Köln and the Germany national team, which he has captained. He was educated at Seaford College in Sussex.

At East Grinstead: Grambusch played for EG between 2009 and 2011, helping the men win their second successive outdoor Premier League title and second successive indoor title.

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Richard Leman
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Richard Leman OBE

228 England & GB caps · GB & England captain 1988–90 · Olympic gold, Seoul 1988 · Olympic bronze, Los Angeles 1984 · World Cup silver 1986 · UK Player of the Year 1984

Richard Alexander Leman (born 13 July 1959) was a member of Great Britain's gold-medal-winning squad at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, having won bronze four years earlier in Los Angeles. He also won silver with England at the 1986 World Cup in London. He captained Great Britain and England from 1988 to 1990, finishing his career with 228 caps, and was named UK Hockey Player of the Year in 1984.

Leman joined the Board of England Hockey in 2002 and was President of Great Britain Hockey from 2007 to 2017, a term that ended after the women's Olympic gold in Rio. He served on the British Olympic Association Executive Board from 2005 to 2016, and in 2017 became a non-executive director of British Ski and Snowboard and the BOA's representative on the British Olympic Foundation board. He was appointed OBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

In business he has founded several recruitment companies — his first, Olympian Consultancy, was 8th in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in 1999 — and is Chairman of Gold Group Recruitment.

At East Grinstead: Born in East Grinstead and educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Leman has played all his club hockey for EG. He has been involved in running East Grinstead Sports Club since 1988, set up the EGSC charity in 2003, chaired its board until 2010, and remains an active trustee.

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Robert Clift
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Robert Clift

Inside left · Olympic gold, Seoul 1988 · World Cup silver 1986

Robert John Clift (born 1 August 1962) was a member of the Great Britain squad that won gold at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, where his preferred position was inside left. He also won silver with England at the 1986 World Cup.

Born in Newport, Wales, Clift was educated at Bablake School and the University of Nottingham. He played his club hockey for Nottingham, Southgate and East Grinstead.

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Sophie Bray
GB · Olympic Gold 2016

Sophie Bray MBE

Forward · 134 England & GB caps, 44 goals · Olympic gold, Rio 2016 · EuroHockey champion 2015 · Commonwealth silver 2014

Sophie Bray (born 12 May 1990) is an English international hockey player who played as a forward for England and Great Britain. She plays her club hockey in the Women's Premier Division for East Grinstead.

Born in France, Bray played tennis and football as a youngster, representing Surrey at tennis aged 11 and playing football for Fulham Ladies, before choosing a team sport. At Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames she joined Surbiton Hockey Club, starting in the colts at 16 before progressing to the senior team. She went on to study psychology at the University of Birmingham.

Bray won Commonwealth silver with England at the 2014 Games in Glasgow and was part of the side that won the 2015 EuroHockey Championships. In 2016 she competed for Team GB at the Rio Olympics, where GB won gold after a penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands. She was appointed MBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to hockey. She has also played for Surbiton, the University of Birmingham, and in the Netherlands for MOP and Kampong. She retired from international hockey in February 2019 with 134 appearances and 44 goals.

At East Grinstead: Bray was EG's second senior women's GB international. She scored critical goals in the 2014/15 season and play-offs that won promotion to the Premiership, played key roles indoors when EG were runners-up at Wembley in 2015, and scored four goals in the 2019 Super6s final. In 2022 she was part of the group that won the Ladies' third senior national indoor title at the Copper Box Arena.

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SB
GB · Olympic Gold 1988

Steve Batchelor

Olympic gold, Seoul 1988 · Olympic bronze, Los Angeles 1984 · World Cup silver 1986 · 12 years an international (to 1992)

Steve Batchelor was a member of Great Britain's gold-medal-winning squad at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, setting up Imran Sherwani in the final against West Germany. Four years earlier he won bronze at the Los Angeles Olympics, and he also won silver with England at the 1986 World Cup. He played international hockey for twelve years, retiring after the 1992 Olympics.

Born in Beare Green, Surrey, Batchelor became head of admissions at Cranleigh School, where he coaches the U14 boys' and girls' hockey teams. His daughter Meg has followed him into the international game.

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Tess Howard
England & GB · Olympian · Commonwealth Gold 2022

Tess Howard MBE

Forward / midfielder · England & GB international · Olympian with Great Britain · Commonwealth gold, Birmingham 2022 (scored in the final) · MBE 2025 · EG Premier League champion 2023

Tess Howard is EG's goal-scoring machine — a player whose flair and show-stopping skills light up league games, and who off the pitch is one of the kindest-hearted people you'll meet.

Born in January 1999, she came through Cambridge City and Durham University and won bronze with England at the 2017 Junior EuroHockey Championships. A serious knee injury cost her a place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but she fought back to score in the Commonwealth Games final as England won gold in Birmingham in 2022, and went on to become an Olympian with Great Britain.

She is also a leading voice for inclusive sportswear: her university dissertation on kit led to the Inclusive Sportswear Charter, and she was appointed MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to inclusive sportswear for women and girls.

At East Grinstead: Tess was a key player in the Women's 1st XI that won the 2022/23 Premier League title — the club's first women's outdoor national title.