{{short description|British field hockey player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox field hockey player | name = Dennis Hay | image = | caption = | nationality = British (Scottish) | birth_date = {{birth date|1949|10|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Aberdeen, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|6|15|1949|10|5|df=y}} | death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | position = |height = 177 cm |weight = 64 kg | years1 = 1966–1973 | clubs1 = Inverleith | years2 = | clubs2 = | nationalyears1= 1966–1972 | nationalteam1 = Great Britain | nationalcaps(goals)1 = 15 | nationalyears2= 1964–1974 | nationalteam2 = Scotland | nationalcaps(goals)2 = }}
'''Dennis Hay''' (5 October 1940 – 15 June 2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dennis HAY Obituary (2025) - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh - The Scotsman |url=https://www.legacy.com/uk/obituaries/scotsman-uk/name/dennis-hay-obituary?id=58684132 |access-date=2025-06-22 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref> was a Scottish field hockey player, who competed for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/dennis-hay-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041737/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/dennis-hay-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Dennis Hay |accessdate=6 October 2019}}</ref>
== Biography == Hay played club hockey for Inverleith and made his Great Britain debut on 29 April 1966, going on to earn 15 GB caps.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scottish-hockey-heritage.org/our-heritage/gb-caps/ |title=Great Britain Caps - Men |website=Scottish Hockey |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18783 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=6 July 2025}}</ref>
His brother Ken also played hockey.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19730317/078/0002 |title=Hockey notes |work=Aberdeen Evening Express |date=17 March 1973 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2025}}</ref>
Later he became a coach, taking Scotland to the 1986 Women's Hockey World Cup,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scottish-hockey.org.uk/dennis-hay/ |title=Dennis Hay |website=Scottish Hockey |date=19 June 2025 |access-date=6 July 2025}}</ref> leading the GB Women's Team to the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, after having finished in fourth place at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He is widely regarded as the father of hockey at Edinburgh University Men's Hockey Club, at the University of Edinburgh.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}}
In collaboration with sprints coach Stuart Dempster, Dennis assisted writing "101 Youth Hockey Drills" (A+C Black, London) in 2008 with a revised version in 2010. The book provides hockey drills based on movement patterns relating to hockey.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{sports links}} * [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1570 Dennis Hay at the British Olympic Committee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831213628/http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1570 |date=31 August 2007 }}
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