Laslett was born in
Canterbury,
Kent. He was educated at
Millfield School. He made his England U18 debut in April 1986, while at Millfield and
Canterbury Hockey Club. He left Canterbury to play club hockey for
Teddington Hockey Club in the
Men's England Hockey League for the 1988/89 season. He would go on to win the league title in 1995 and the
Hockey Association Cup twice in 1994 and 1996. He made his Great Britain debut during the June 1990 BMW Trophy tournament in Amsterdam. Laslett won the Hockey Writers UK Player of the Year Award in 1991 and the National League Player of the Year Award for the 1990–91 season. Still at Teddington, he represented
Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, participated in the
1994 Men's Hockey World Cup and represented
Great Britain at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where in the latter he captained the team. In 2006, he unveiled the new Teddington HC clubhouse along with former teammate
Jon Potter. == References ==