Holly Stewart

Holly Stewart was born and raised in North Vancouver. She started playing field hockey when she was 6 years old for the West Vancouver U7 “Crickets”. She played many other sports growing up, including soccer, wrestling, basketball, cross-country, and skiing. She graduated from Carson Graham before receiving a scholarship to play field hockey and study at the University of Maine. After finishing university, Holly spent 7 years with the Canadian National Field Hockey Team before retiring in 2020. Her career highlights include a silver medal at the 2019 Pan American Games and scoring her first goal against Ireland in her first international game in 2013.

Holly has always been involved in coaching youth field hockey, starting as a junior coach for WVFHC when she was in high school. Since retiring from the national team, she has been able to put an emphasis on her coaching career and is focused on teaching the next generation of Canadian field hockey players.