An international hockey duo have gone back to their roots, as the countdown to Beijing continues.

Great Britain hockey players Lisa Wooding and Chloe Rogers visited schools in Great Dunmow and Takeley to give assembly presentations on their forthcoming adventure at the Olympics.

Wooding, 28, and 23-year-old Rogers, from Dunmow, who both play their club hockey for Chelmsford Hockey Club, are set to take on the best international hockey talent at the Games.

They talked to pupils at St Mary’s Primary School, the Great Dunmow Primary School and Takeley Primary School about how they had trained hard in the sport in order to achieve their dream and ambition to play at the Olympics.

In the afternoon they went on to speak to a full main hall of sports students at Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre.

The headteacher of Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre Simon Knight had previously taught the girls PE and was on hand to welcome the former students back to the school.

Wooding, who left Helena RS in 1998, said: “It was great to go back and meet students and some of our old teachers, especially Mr Knight.”

Rogers left Helena in 2003 and said: “It’s rare that two students go through the same school and are both going to compete at the Olympics.

“Some of our team colleagues on the British women’s hockey team had found it unusual that both me and Lisa had gone to the same secondary school.”

Rogers, who is a striker and will be wearing the number 12 shirt for the Great Britain hockey team during the Olympics, attended St Mary’s Primary School and Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form.

Wooding, who attended Takeley Primary School and Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form, is a defender and will be wearing the number three shirt for Great Britain.

The first game for Great Britain’s women’s hockey team is against Germany on August 10.