Liz Chase

Elizabeth Muriel Chase (26 April 1950 to 9 May 2018) was a Zimbabwean field hockey player in the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Born in Umtali, now Mutare, she was educated in Salisbury, now Harare, and played for the national schools and under 21 sides. She studied physical education in South Africa, played for her university and for Wits and Southern Transvaal, and represented South Africa in the 1970s before returning to Rhodesia to teach and to play for Old Hararians. She appeared in all five of Zimbabwe's matches at the Games and scored three goals. She later headed the physical education department at the University of the Witwatersrand and died of cancer in Johannesburg.