{{short description|English field hockey player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox field hockey player | name = Will Calnan | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1996|4|17|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | position = Forward | years1 = 2013–2016 | clubs1 = Surbiton | years2 = 2016–2023 | clubs2 = Hampstead & Westminster | years3 = 2023–2024 | clubs3 = Southgate | years4 = 2024–2025 | clubs4 = HDM | years5 = 2025–2026 | clubs5 = Surbiton | nationalyears1 = 2015–2017 | nationalteam1 = England & GB U21 | nationalcaps1 = 26 | nationalgoals1 = | nationalyears2 = 2018–present | nationalteam2 = England & GB | nationalcaps2 = 99 | nationalgoals2 = 19 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's field hockey}} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition|EuroHockey Championship}} {{MedalSilver|2023 Mönchengladbach|}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze|2022 Birmingham|Team}} }} '''William James Cameron Calnan''' (born 17 April 1996) is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward for Dutch Hoofdklasse club HDM and the England and Great Britain national teams.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/player.asp?itemid=12602&itemTitle=Will+Calnan§ion=44 |title=Senior Squads | England Hockey}}</ref> He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
== Biography == Calnan, born in London, went to school at St Andrew's School in Woking and Cranleigh School, Surrey<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cranleigh.org/uncategorised/2012/12/england-calls/ |title=England Calls |date=2012-12-11 |website=Cranleigh School |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref> and studied at Kingston University, where he graduated with a degree in business management.
Calnan played club hockey for Surbiton in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division from 2013 to 2016 and Hampstead & Westminster from 2016 to 2023. While at Hampstead & Westminster he made his senior Great Britain national team debut against Belgium, on 14 June 2018. He won a bronze medal with England in the Men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/62463163 |title=Commonwealth Games: England's men win hockey bronze against South Africa |website=BBC Sport|access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> and won a silver medal with England at the 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship in Mönchengladbach.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/hockey/66634378 |title=EuroHockey: England men lose out to the Netherlands in dramatic final |website=BBC Sport |date=27 August 2023|access-date=29 July 2025}}</ref>
Calnan transferred to Southgate Hockey Club for the 2023–24 season and on 18 June 2024, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |title=GB hockey select Roper for fourth Olympic Games |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/hockey/articles/ce99edrn13wo |website=bbc.com |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 June 2024 |date=18 June 2024}}</ref> The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to India.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cy799nlnp8lo|title=GB wait for men's hockey medal goes on after shootout heartbreak|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=9 August 2024}}</ref>
In 2024 he left England to play for HDM in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.<ref>{{cite web |title=Will Calnan speelt komend seizoen bij HDM heren 1 |url=https://070online.nl/2024/06/21/will-calnan-speelt-komend-seizoen-bij-hdm-heren-1/ |website=070online.nl |access-date=22 June 2024 |language=nl |date=21 June 2024}}</ref> He joined Surbiton for the 2025–26 season.
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{International Hockey Federation|name=Will Calnan}} * {{European Hockey Federation|12123|Will Calnan}} * [https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/international/senior-squad/will-calnan Will Calnan] on England Hockey * {{Team GB|name=Will Calnan}} * {{Team England|will-calnan|Will Calnan}} * {{Olympics.com profile|william-calnan|William Calnan}} * [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/william-calnan_1898982 William Calnan}] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics * {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|56193|William Calnan}} * {{Instagram|wjcc66|William Calnan}}
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