Carole Thate, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carole Thate

field hockey player

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1971

Place of Birth: Utrecht, Netherlands

Profession: field hockey player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carole Helene Antoinette Thate (born 6 December 1971 in Utrecht) is a Dutch former field hockey player, who played 168 international matches for the Netherlands, in which she scored forty goals.
She made her debut on 20 November 1989 in a friendly match against England. Thate was a member of the Holland squad that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and once again four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
She captained the team for several years, and played as a midfielder for Dutch clubs Shinty, Schaerweyde, Kampong and Amsterdam.
After she quit playing hockey and became the director of the Dutch Johan Cruijff Foundation in Amsterdam.
Thate is married, to one of the highest international goal scorers, the Australian striker Alyson Annan.
They had their first child, Sam, in May 2007.
Their second son, Cooper, was born in October 2008.