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| Union | Hockey Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | hockeyroos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Frank Murray (since 2004) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Rechelle Hawkes (200) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.hockey.org.au | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Hockeyroos are Australia's national women's field hockey team. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Field hockey is a Team sport in which players attempt to score goals by hitting the Ball across the pitch with a stick
The Hockeyroos have been declared Australia's Team of the Year five times and were awarded the Best Australian Team at the 2000 Olympic Games by unanimous verdict. "I am proud and happy to proclaim that you have presented to the world the best Olympic Games ever Their major achievement would probably be the collection of three gold medals from four olympic games in a row, but they also have many other successes.
Another noteworthy achievement is Rechelle Hawkes' twelve-year Olympic career with the Hockeyroos (eight as captain) during which she became only the second Australian woman ever to win gold medals at three separate games (the first being Dawn Fraser)
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Major achievements
3 Olympic Medals
Gold
- 2000 Sydney
- 1996 Atlanta
- 1988 Seoul
4 World Cup Medals
Gold
- 1998 Utrecht
- 1994 Dublin
Silver
- 1990 Sydney
Bronze
- 1983 Kuala Lumpur
Gold
- 2006 Melbourne
- 1998 Kuala Lumpur
Bronze
- 2002 Manchester
11 Champions Trophy Medals
Gold
- 2003 Sydney
- 1999 Brisbane
- 1997 Berlin
- 1995 Mar Del Plata
- 1993 Amsterdam
- 1991 Berlin
Silver
- 2005 Canberra
- 1989 Frankfurt
- 1987 Amsterdam
Bronze
- 2001 Rotterdam
- 2000 Amsterdam
3 Oceania Cup Medals
Gold
- 1999
- 2005, Suva, Fiji
Silver
- 2007, Buderim, Australia
Roster
- Nicole Arrold
- Teneal Attard
- Wendy Beattie (nee Alcorn)
- Madonna Blyth (Co Captain)
- Toni Cronk
- Casey Eastham
- Suzie Faulkner
- Peta Gallagher
- De-Anne Gilbert
- Emily Halliday
- Kate Hollywood
- Nikki Hudson (Captain)
- Rachel Imison
- Fiona Johnson
- Amy Korner
- Kobie Mcgurk
- Emma Meyer
- Donna-Lee Patrick
- Rebecca Sanders
- Angie Skirving (Vice Captain)
- Karen Smith
- Sarah Talor
- Melanie Twitt
- Kim Walker
Future stars
Hockeyroo Rebecca Sanders recently participated as head coach at an under 14's Future Stars development camp. Rechelle Margaret Hawkes (born 20 May 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) was the captain of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team best known as the Hockeyroos Dawn Lorraine Fraser AO, MBE (born on 4 September 1937 is an Australian champion swimmer For Olympic ice hockey see Ice hockey at the Olympic Games Field hockey (sometimes referred to as simply hockey Field hockey became a permanent sport in the Commonwealth Games with its introduction in 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur. The Hockey Champions Trophy is the International Hockey Federation 's most prestigious annual event (since 1980) Nicole ("Nikki" Hudson (née Mott (born 6 July 1976 is an Australian Women's Field Hockey player Angela ("Angie" Lambert (née Skirving (born 1 February 1981 in Toowoomba) is an Australian Women's Field Hockey player Not to be confused with Karen Smith the character from the film Mean Girls, or Karen R
The Game Development camp aimed towards fine tuning all players skills before the state championships. It also gives state selectors a chance to see many players in action.
All the participants of the camp are grateful of Bec's dedication to her role of coach and all benefited from this experience of having an elite player coach them.
The camp pulled together representative players from associations all over New South Wales and joined them in teams for the week long camp. This year the camps were named after the hockey capitals of the world and the winners of the fun competition were USA.
The participants of this camp are the future stars of Australia and delighted in seeing where they could be in as soon as 5 years time.
See also
External links
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