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Alex Philippi
Alexander Edward Philippi (born November 22, 1968) is a former field hockey player who represented Canada for a brief time on the Senior Men's Team in 1992 and 1993. He also represented Canada on the Senior Indoor Team on a tour of Scotland and England. Prior to this he played for the Under-21 Canadian Junior Team. For several years, he captained the Quebec Men's Senior and Junior Teams and represented his province in many national indoor and outdoor championships across Canada as well as touring the United States and Mexico. A long-time member of the Ambassadors Hockey Club, based in Montreal, he credits Jesse Kular (former director of the Quebec Field Hockey Federation) as the one who guided and inspired him to play. In 1990, he was awarded Field Hockey Canada's Fred Hoos Memorial Bursary.

Coaching Career
In addition to his playing career, he also coached a number of different teams over several years. For four years he coached the [McGill University] Martlet's Women's Team while completing his Bachelor of Education degree also at McGill. In 1992 he was awarded the Field Hockey Canada Domestic Coach of the Year. He coached the Quebec Senior and Junior men's and women's teams and then in 1994, won a full scholarship to study coaching and at (NCI) Canada's National Coaching Institute in Victoria, British Columbia. While at the NCI he was the assistant to Lynne Beecroft, head coach of the University of Victoria Vikes women's team. They won the national university title in 1994-95. In addition to this he coached the Victoria Island Women's Indoor team who also won a national title.

Life after Hockey
After playing his final years of hockey with Reading and Guildford in the National Premier League in England, he returned to Canada to study acting. In 2001, he joined the Covenant Players Christian Repertory Theatre Company, based in California, and toured throughout the United States for two years before three years of touring in France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany and the UK. He is currently working as a teacher and living in England along with his wife Naomi.