Background
Flanagan was born on 8 January 1992. Her father is Fred Flanagan, a PE teacher in Canberra. She grew up in Canberra where she played tennis, track and field and field hockey.
Flanagan was born on 8 January 1992. Her father is Fred Flanagan, a PE teacher in Canberra. She grew up in Canberra where she played tennis, track and field and field hockey.
She attended Brindabella Christian College before going to Radford College.
Anna plays as a defender for the Hockeyroos, Australia"s national team, and also plays for the Canberra Labor Club Strikers in the Australian Hockey League. In the 2014-2015 European hockey season, Flanagan was based in the Netherlands where she is playing for MOP in the Hoofdklasse. She earned a degree in sports journalism from the University of Canberra.
Her professional career in journalism started around the time that she was added to the Australian field hockey squad.
Following this move, she started doing some professional journalism work for Fox Sports in Perth. In 2011 and 2012, she was enrolled at Curtin University.
Flanagan is a defender, who specialises in taking corner penalties. In 2000, after being a multi-sport athlete, she made a commitment to playing field hockey.
Flanagan made her national team debut in March 2010 in a friendly against South of Korea as an 18-year-old, after having been first called up to the team when she was 17 years old.
Her selection to the squad came during a period when the team was injecting a lot of youth players following the 2008 Summer Olympics. Going into the Games, she had over 50 caps for the national team In 2013, she took part in the Hockey World League, which took place in Tucumán, Argentina.
Her team reached the second place and she scored the only Australian goal in the final game.
As a member of the 2012 Australian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she had a fifth-place finish.