Ross Rutledge

Michael Ross "Roscoe" Rutledge (July 7, 1962 – April 23, 2004) is a former field hockey player.

Rutledge participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada, starting in 1984. After having finished in tenth position in Los Angeles, California, the longtime resident of Langley, British Columbia ended up in eleventh place with the Men's National Team in the Seoul Games.

He died from cancer. In Ambleside, West Vancouver, there is a field hockey turf called Rutledge Field, the home ground of the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club. The field was dedicated in memorial of Ross Rutledge in 2011 who was a local advocate for field hockey, having started the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club Adanacs player development program.

International senior competitions

Canada squad – 1983 Pan American Games – Gold medal

Austin Bissett Burrows Chohan Cholakis Forzley Hladky Hobkirk Hoos Plummer Porritt Rai Rutledge Sacré Sandhu Smith Coach: Jagday

Canada squad – 1987 Pan American Games – Gold medal

Albert Burrows Caruso Chohan Dubé Gifford Goodwin Grimmer Harris Sacré Vaz Manwaring Porritt Rutledge Sandhu Wyatt Coach: Clarke

Canada squad – 1991 Pan American Games – Silver medal

Ancrum Caruso Chohan Cholakis Edamura Gifford Goodwin Griffiths Harris Knapp Manwaring Milkovich Muller Rutledge Sandhu Coach: Kanjee

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