Field Hockey Canada – Vancouver, BC – Field Hockey Canada’s Men’s National Program has named the Senior Men’s National Team and Development Squad rosters for the 2017 year.

Thirty-six athletes have been named to the two squads, with the National Team consisting of 24 players who have an average of 88 senior international games played.

The National Team features 14 of the 16 players who represented Canada at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The remaining two – Benjamin Martin and Jagdish Gill – have since retired from international competition.

New additions to the Men’s National Team include a handful of athletes who make the jump from the junior level and recently competed at the 2016 Junior World Cup in India: Balraj Panesar, Brandon Pereira, Harbir Sidhu. Oliver Scholfield joins threein making the jump from last year’s Senior Development Squad, up to the National Team.

Floris van Son also joins the National Team after having been a part of the squad that prepared for the Olympic Games.

The Senior Development Squad also features young blood, many of whom competed at this year’s Junior World Cup including Amrit Sidhu, Fin Boothroyd, Iqwinder Gill, Jamie Wallace, Rohan Chopra, and Thomson Harris.

Midfielder Paul Wharton bring his 60 games of senior international experience to the roster which is largely filled with players who will be looking to earn their first senior caps.

The Men’s National Team is now centralized in Vancouver preparing for World League Round 2 in Bangladesh this March.

2017 MEN’S NATIONAL TEAM

Name	Position	Hometown	Current/Last Club
Adam Froese	Defender	Abbotsford, BC	India Club FHC
Antoni Kindler	Goalkeeper	Vancouver, BC	West Vancouver FHC
Balraj Panesar	Midfielder	Surrey, BC	United Brothers FHC
Brandon Pereira	Defender	Surrey, BC	United Brothers FHC
Brenden Bissett	Midfielder	New Westminster, BC	UVIC
David Carter	Goalkeeper	Vancouver, BC	United Brothers FHC
Devohn Noronha-Teixeira	Forward	Mississauga, ON	Toronto Lions
Floris Van Son	Forward	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	HIC (Netherlands)
Gabriel Ho-Garcia	Forward	Burnaby, BC	Burnaby Lakers
Gordon Johnston	Defender	Vancouver, BC	University of British Columbia
Habir Sidhu	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC	India Club FHC
Hudson Stewart	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC	Vancouver Hawks
Iain Smythe	Forward	Vancouver, BC	Vancouver Hawks
James Kirkpatrick	Forward	Victoria, BC	Racing Club of Paris
John Smythe	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC	Vancouver Hawks
Keegan Pereira	Forward	Ajax, ON	HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim
Mark Pearson	Midfielder	Tsawwassen, BC	West Vancouver FHC
Matthew Guest	Forward	Calgary, BC	Altona Hockey Club
Matthew Sarmento	Forward	Vancouver, BC	University of British Columbia
Oliver Scholfield	Forward	Vancouver, BC	Vancouver Hawks
Richard Hildreth	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC	Vancouver Hawks
Scott Tupper	Defender	Vancouver, BC	Schaerweijde (Netherlands)
Sukhi Panesar	Midfielder	Surrey, BC	United Brothers FHC
Taylor Curran	Midfielder	North Vancouver, BC	West Vancouver FHC

2016 SENIOR DEVELOPMENT SQUAD

Name	Position	Hometown
Adrien d’Andrade	Defender	Coquitlam, BC
Amrit Sidhu	Forward	Abbotsford, BC
Arif Virjee	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC
Campbell Munsie	Goalkeeper	Vancouver, BC
Fin Boothroyd	Forward	Vancouver, BC
Iqwinder Gill	Goalkeeper	Surrey, BC
Jamie Wallace	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC
Pardeep Koonar	Goalkeeper	Ottawa, ON
Paul Wharton	Midfielder	Vancouver, BC
Rohan Chopra	Forward	Ottawa, ON
Thomson Harris	Forward	Vancouver, BC
Vikram Sandhu	Forward	Vancouver, BC

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