Mary Elizabeth Nevill (born 12 March 1961 in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England) is a British former field hockey player.
Early life As Mary Cheetham, she lived in Nettleham, and attended the De Aston Grammar School,Louth Standard Friday 30 September 1988, page 10Lincolnshire Echo Saturday 1 October 1988, page 6Market Rasen Weekly Mail Friday 21 June 1991, page 33 arriving from Macclesfield in 1974.Market Rasen Weekly Mail Friday 2 October 1992
She played for Lincoln hockey club.Lincolnshire Echo Thursday 11 December 1975, page 16 and also threw the javelin,Lincolnshire Echo Monday 27 June 1977, page 9 and jumped hurdles.Skegness Standard Friday 7 July 1978 She was picked for the England junior hockey team in March 1978.Horncastle News Thursday 9 March 1978 She played for the county hockey team as centre forward.Lincolnshire Standard Friday 12 January 1979, page 17 She gained three A levels in August 1979.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 24 August 1979,
Career Hockey In October 1980, she was picked for the England U23 team.Skegness Standard Friday 3 October 1980, page 8 In March 1982 she was chosen to captain the England U21 team,Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 19 March 1982, page 32 and the England U22 team in October 1982.Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 5 October 1982, page 20 She was picked for the England team in February 1985, to play against Wales.Lincolnshire Echo Friday 1 February 1985, page 22
She became the England captain in July 1989.Market Rasen Weekly Mail Saturday 1 July 1989, page 1
Nevill captained the Great Britain squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Nevill has played club hockey for Leicester.
Lecturer After her international career Nevill, as a senior lecturer at the Loughborough University, researched in the area of muscle metabolism during maximum sprint and intermittent exercise with a particular interest in the aetiology of fatigue. She also stayed actively involved in the sport of field hockey, and the former Great Britain women's captain for a while was coach to the England U21 Women's Squad. Besides that, Nevill was director of Institute of Youth Sport.
Nevill is currently Professor and a former Head of Department of Sport Science in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.
Personal life She married on Saturday 9 July 1988.Market Rasen Weekly Mail Saturday 16 July 1988, page 28
Nevill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Sport and Sports Science.
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