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SA Suns
The SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns - prior to 2015) are a women's field hockey team based in South Australia that competes in the Australian Hockey League (AHL). The SA Suns won national championships in 1995 and 2011. Current Team The following is the SA Suns team roster for the 2018 AHL: Head coaches: Mark Dedman # Mariana Lagos #Jane Claxton ( C) #Celeste Foord #Emily Grist #Holly Evans #Euleena MacLachlan #Amy Hunt #Alison Penington #Michaela Spano # Karri McMahon ( C) #Ashleigh Morrison # Lucy Talbot #Leah Welstead #Amy Hammond (GK) #Hattie Shand #Ashlee Wells (GK) History Name Changes Since the founding of the Women's Australian Hockey League, the SA Suns have competed under five different names. National Championships 2011 Women's Australian Hockey League At the 2011 AHL, the SA Suns won the Australian Hockey League for the second time. This was the first time the SA Suns had won in 16 years, defeating the NSW Arrows 1–0 in the final. The SA Suns lineup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Arrows
The New South Wales Arrows are a nationally competing field hockey team based in Sydney, Australia. Their most recent Australian Hockey League The Australian Hockey League (AHL) was Australia's premier national domestic ... title win was in 2014. In 2015, NSW beat the ACT in the bronze medal playoff, securing 3rd place in the final rankings after beating Canberra Labor Club Strikers 3-1. The NSW Arrows are the most successful team in the AHL, winning a record 9 titles in the years 1993, 1996, 1998-2002, 2009 and 2014.
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Juliet Haslam
Juliet Haslam OAM (born 31 May 1969 in Adelaide, South Australia) is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992, for her native country. She was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team, best known as the ''Hockeyroos'', that won the gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. As well as being a dual Olympic Gold Medallist, she won a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal, two World Cup Gold Medals, five Champions Trophy Gold Medals and was named in the Australian Women’s ‘Team of the Century’. On 26 October 2021, she was appointed as the head of Port Adelaide Power's AFLW operations for their 2023 entry into the AFL Women's competition. Personal Juliet lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father is Ross Haslam who played 113 games for the Port Adelaide Magpies. She is married to former footballer Andrew Obst who played for Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Stacy
Elise Stacy (born 2 April 1987) is a former Australian field hockey player. Personal life Stacy was born and raised in Adelaide. She married Justin Kosmina in Sydney on 9 April 2021. They both have a son named Leo John Kosmina who was born in Sydney on 4 June 2023. Hockey Domestic career Stacy played for the Southern Suns in Hockey Australia's former premier domestic league, the Australian Hockey League (AHL). During her career in the AHL, Stacy won one national title with the team. In 2011, during the 19th edition of the competition, the Southern Suns defeated the NSW Arrows to win the title. Hockeyroos Elise Stacy was first selected in the Australian national squad in 2010. She made her senior international debut in 2011 during a test series against India in Perth, where she also scored her first international goal. She followed this up with an appearance during the succeeding test series against China in Busselton. International goals ''The Bachelor Australia'' In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airlie Ogilvie
Airlie Ogilvie (born 28 September 1987) is an Australian field hockey player. She is married to Simon Orchard, formerly of the Kookaburras Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus ''Dacelo'' native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between in length and weigh around . The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri ''guuguubarra'', onomatopoeic of its call. The .... References 1987 births Living people Australian female field hockey players 21st-century Australian women Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bianca Joyce
Bianca Joyce (née Greenshields; born 21 March 1990) is a former Australian field hockey player, who played as a midfielder. Personal life Bianca Joyce was born in Nantawarra, South Australia. She married her husband, Tom, in 2013 and the pair now reside in Crystal Brook. Career Club level During her career, Joyce was a member of Port Adelaide District Hockey Club before she moved to Perth, Western Australia in 2011 to join the Hockey Australia High Performance Program, as a member of the Hockeyroos squad. Hockeyroos Following a successful campaign in the 2010 AHL, Joyce was called up to make her debut for the Australian national team in 2011. She made her official debut in February 2011, in a test match against Argentina. In November 2011, following her string of performances throughout the year, Joyce was named in the Hockeyroos 27 player training squad for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, United Kingdom. After failing to make the Olympics, Joyce was a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Victory
Craig Victory (born 3 February 1980 in Adelaide, South Australia) is a field hockey striker from Australia who played 102 international games for the Australia men's national field hockey team, the Kookaburras. He is a Commonwealth Games, World Cup and Champions Trophy Gold Medalist and was an Olympic Bronze Medalist with the Australia men's national field hockey team the Kookaburras at the 2000 in Sydney. As a successful coach, he has served as head coach of the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) hockey program, head coach of the 2011 winning SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) in the Australian Hockey League, Australian Junior Women's coach and assistant coach to the gold medal-winning Hockeyroos at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Personal Craig lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Field Hockey - Playing Club Hockey Craig played club hockey for the Port Adelaide District Hockey Club Magpies. State Hockey He represented South Australia as part of the Southern Hotshots ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Men's National Field Hockey Team
The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight Summer Olympic Games (1992–2012). The Kookaburras placed in the top four in every Olympics between 1980 and 2012; in 2016, the Kookaburras placed sixth. They also won the Hockey World Cup in 1986, 2010 and 2014. The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team, finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens. However, they failed to win Gold after that after losses in subsequent Olympics including a loss to Belgium in the Gold Medal Match of 2020 Tokyo Olympics - the Kookaburras instead won the silver medal. History Australia's first men's team competed in an international match in 1922. The first major competition won by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayla Sharland
Kayla Marie Whitelock (née Sharland, born 30 October 1985) is a New Zealand field hockey player, and former captain of the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (the ''Black Sticks Women''). She has competed in four Olympic Games (2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016), three Commonwealth Games (2006, 2010 and 2014) and two Hockey World Cups (2010 and 2014). She was named on the FIH's All-Star Team in 2010 and was Hockey New Zealand's player of the year in 2012. Biography Whitelock was born in Palmerston North, and is of Rangitāne descent. She married Crusaders rugby player George Whitelock in December 2013. Whitelock took up hockey at the age of seven, as her school only played hockey, not her preferred sport, netball. In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Whitelock was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to hockey. International senior competitions * 2003 – Champions Challenge, Catania. * 2004 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarissa Eshuis
Clarissa Eshuis (born 18 March 1987) is a New Zealand field hockey player. She has competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (the ''Black Sticks Women'') since 2005, including for the team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games and at the 2012 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Hamilton, New Zealand New Zealand female field hockey players New Zealand people of Dutch descent Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey 21st-century New Zealand women Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games {{NewZealand-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Cooper
Melody Cooper (née Rowe, born 16 March 1983) is a New Zealand field hockey player. She has played in the midfield and defence positions. She played club hockey in New Zealand and in South Australia before representing New Zealand at the 2012 London Olympics. Melody was captain of the SA Suns team that won the Australian Hockey League Championship in 2011. Personal Cooper is married to former Adelaide 36ers basketballer David Cooper and lives in Adelaide with their two children. Field hockey Player In 2011, Cooper co-captained the Southern Suns team from South Australia to victory in the Australian Hockey League championship in Darwin. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team in the women's event. She played under coach Mark Hager where she was part of the team that defeated the Australian Hockeyroos (Australia women's national field hockey team) 1–0 in the opening game and went on to finish fourth. Coach Cooper pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Women's National Field Hockey Team
The New Zealand women's national field hockey team is also known as the Black Sticks Women. The team's best performances include a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, a third placing at the 2011 Champions Trophy, and fourth placings at the 1986 World Cup, 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics. As of December 2017, the team ranks fourth on the International Hockey Federation (FIH) world rankings. Tournament records Team Current squad The following players were named in the squad for the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. ''All caps and goals current as of 30 July 2022, after the match against Scotland.'' Records Notable players Olivia merry * Katie Glynn * Christine Arthur * Helen Clarke *Suzie Muirhead * Mary Clinton * Anna Lawrence *Mandy Smith *Charlotte Harrison *Chilly Saminterana Results Past results *''New Zealand women's national field hockey team results (2011–15)'' *''New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
