Former Black Sticks women's goalkeeper Amelia Gibson has hit out at the limited release of yesterday's review into Hockey New Zealand.
After an independent review into Hockey New Zealand was called for in September last year, yesterday's release saw just a three-page summary made available, with the entire document yet to be revealed.
Also, the review's conductor Maria Dew QC wasn't available to take questions about what she'd uncovered during her review process.
Gibson was one of the first to raise concerns over team culture within the Black Sticks women, retiring from hockey altogether due to the strain of her own experiences within the environment.
Speaking to 1 NEWS, Gibson says that yesterday's release does not do enough to address concerns made by her and others from within the team.
"I think it's really hard," Gibson began.
"It's actually quite hard for players to come forward and speak about what they've been through.
"For me personally, I do feel like it's a slap in the face not being able to see something that you were a part of when you're trying to make change for a healthy environment."
The review did find that 70 per cent of those players both past and current had raised serious concerns over the goings on within the organisation, especially over the conduct of coach Mark Hager, who has since left Hockey New Zealand to join Great Britain .
Dew stated in her report that Hockey New Zealand had failed to enable player issues to be properly responded to, with Gibson raising concerns that any problem's from within the playing group were not taken seriously.
"As a player, it's really hard to put your name to something and be out there when your career's on the line.
"Ultimately, for me, that's why I came forward after I retired. I no longer had my career to keep fighting for."
Gibson concluded by adding her name to the list of those to make the findings of Dew's review public for the good of hockey within New Zealand as a whole.
"I just want closure," she said.
"I want this to be over. Enough players both current and past have been dragged through enough.
"The current team needs to be able to move forward. They've got an Olympics to go for next year - this is not what they need.
"It's great to get an apology, but the apology also needs to go to the people that supported us when the environment wasn't good enough, and when the environment couldn't support us."
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