Angie Skirving
Angela Lambert was an Australian Women's Field Hockey player. She captained the under 21 Australian women's field hockey squad before entering the Hockeyroos in 1998 and in 2000 won gold at the Sydney Olympics. Apart from playing in the Hockeyroos she played for the AHL Queensland Scorchers.
The youngest of the local Australian Representatives, Skirving began playing hockey at the age of 12 and was selected in the Queensland no.1 Rep. team when 13. She debuted for the Hockeyroos at 17. Skirving married Australian Kookaburras goalie Stephen Lambert in December 2006. The pair have been described as Australia's Golden Couple of Hockey.
In 2015 Lambert was named in the Queensland Scorchers Team of the Decade.
Skirving is the hockey co-ordinator at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, where she also worked as a teacher.
