Western Bay of Plenty hockey player Gemma Flynn is in the New Zealand Hockey squad heading to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games in October.
The naming of the 32 players today in the men's and women's Black Sticks teams brings the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team total to 193 athletes representing in all 17 sports.

Gemma Flynn.

Regulations state only 16 players can be selected for a field hockey team and the Black Sticks men's and women's teams will be taking the maximum of 15 field players to the games and will take only one goalkeeper each.
Both Black Stick coaches, Shane McLeod and Mark Hager, believe the extra field player will give strength to the team due to the hot and humid conditions to be competed in.
"It makes sense to take as many field players as we can to ensure we can play our best, day in, day out, against the competition," says Mark Hager, Black Sticks women's coach.
The Black Sticks women play Wales in the first hockey fixture of the event on Monday, October 4; while the Black Sticks men's first outing is against Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, October 5.

The teams are:
Black Sticks women:

Kayla Sharland, Emily Naylor, Krystal Forgesson, Katie Glynn, Stacey Carr, Ella Gunson, Beth Jurgeleit, Clarissa Eshuis, Lucy Talbot, Sam Harrison, Gemma Flynn, Anna Thorpe, Charlotte Harrison, Stacey Michelsen, Natasha Fitzsimons and Anita Punt.

Black Sticks men:

Nick Haig, Andy Hayward, Simon Child, Dean Couzins, Blair Hilton, Brad Shaw, Kyle Pontifex, Phil Burrows, Hayden Shaw, Blair Tarrant, Arun Panchia, Shea McAleese, Stephen Jenness, Hugo Inglis, Steve Edwards and Nick Wilson.