Club career Roper started playing hockey, aged 8, for his local club Chester HC and played there for ten years before going to university, where he played for
Sheffield Hallam. He played club hockey for
Brooklands MU and
Wimbledon before joining Dutch club
Oranje-Rood for the 2021–22 season. Roper played for
Holcombe during the 2022-2023 season before joining
Old Georgians. He helped Old Georgians finish runner-up to Surbiton during the
2024–25 season.
International career Roper made his international debut in 2013. He competed for England in the
men's hockey tournament at the
2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal. On 24 May 2017 he was named as one of a three-man captaincy group, for
England and
Great Britain. It was a new captaincy structure for the men's international teams. He represented England and won a bronze medal at the
2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. On 28 May 2021, he was selected in the England squad for the
2021 EuroHockey Championship and was selected to represent Great Britain for the delayed
2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He won a bronze medal with
England in the
Men's tournament at the
2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and won a silver medal with England at the
2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship in Mönchengladbach. He was selected to represent Great Britain at the
2024 Summer Olympics. The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to
India.
Other pursuits Roper presents the popular
Let’s Stick Together podcast alongside fellow international hockey players
Brendan Creed and
Joep de Mol. He is also a partner in
The Social Bean a boutique coffee business, alongside Old Georgians teammate
Chris Griffiths (field hockey), as well as
David Goodfield, and
Jacob Draper. == References ==