Phil Sykes

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For the former ice hockey player of the same name, see Phil Sykes (ice hockey)
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Philip ("Phil") David Sykes (born July 24, 1970 in Tacoma, Washington) is a former field hockey defender from the United States, who was a member of the national team that finished twelfth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

A former standout on the US national team, Sykes has been named the interim head coach of field hockey at Cornell University for the 2003 campaign after serving as an assistant at Towson University in the two previous seasons.

A national team member from 1986 to 1997, Sykes was part of the US indoor team in 1994, and then again in each of the last two seasons. The 2002 indoor squad captured a silver medal at the World Cup qualifier and earned a bronze at the 1995 Pan American Games. Sykes has represented the United States in more than thirty junior national and sixty senior national matches. He also competed in the Australian Premier Division for the UTS Hockey Club in Sydney. He previously had served as a volunteer assistant coach at UC-Davis during the 1998 and 1999 campaigns.

Sykes earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from California State University, Hayward, in 1999.

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 Larry Amar |  Nick Butcher |  Steve Danielson |  Ahmed Elmaghraby |  Steve Jennings |  Ben Maruquin |  Marq Mellor |  John O'Neill |  Steven van Randwijck |  Otto Steffers |  Phil Sykes |  Tom Vano |  Steve Wagner |  Eelco Wassenaar |  Mark Wentges |  Scott Williams | Head Coach: Jon Clark