Eddie Ockenden

Eddie Ockenden
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1987-04-03) 3 April 1987
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Field hockey
Event(s) Men's team
Turned pro 2008
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Competitor for  Australia
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Team
2012 London Team
World Cup
2014 The Hague Team
2010 New Delhi Team
Hockey at the Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi Team
Champions Trophy
2009 Melbourne Team
2011 Auckland Team
2014 Bhubaneswar Team

Eddie Ockenden is an Australian field hockey player. He plays in the midfielder and striker positions. He turned professional in 2008 and has played for teams in the Netherlands. He plays club hockey, having competed for a New Zealand team and a Hobart, Tasmania side. He also plays for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League. He has represented Australia on the junior and senior level, earning a silver medal with the 2005 U21 team at the Junior World Cup. As a member of the senior men's team, he represented Australia at the 2008 Games where he earned a bronze medal. He won a gold medal at the 2009 and 2011 Champions Trophy competitions. He won another gold medal with Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. At the 2010 World Cup, he won a gold medal. He represents the Uttar Pradesh Wizards in the Hockey India League.

Personal

Ockenden is from Moonah, Tasmania.[1][2][3] He had completed one year of higher education by 2008, finishing a year of working towards a degree in commerce.[3]

Field hockey

Ockenden is a midfielder[4] and striker.[5][6] In 2006, he had a field hockey scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport.[5]

Ockenden plays club amateur hockey. In 2007, he was playing club hockey in New Zealand for a Canterbury side in the New Zealand national league.[7] In 2011, he played club hockey in Hobart,[8] for the North-West Graduates. That year, he played in the Southern Men's Hockey Grand Final.[9]

Professional hockey

Ockenden turned professional in 2008, when he signed a deal and played for Laren, a Dutch team. His salary was not near the top of the league, where the best players earn in the six figures.[3] In 2008, 2009 and 2011, he played professional hockey in the Netherlands.[3][8][10][11]

State team

Ockenden plays for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League. He was with the team in 2006 when he was a teenager.[5] He played for the team in the first found of the 2011 season.[12] He was a member of the Tassie Tigers in 2010.[13] He played in a June 2010 game for the Tassie Tigers against New South Wales that New South Wales won 6-3. He scored a goal in the game.[14] In 2010, after the league finals, he earned the AHL Player of the Tournament award.[15]

Junior national team

Ockenden has represented Australia on the junior national level. In 2005, as a member of the U21 national team, he earned a silver medal at the Junior World Cup.[5]

Senior national team

Ockenden is a member of the Kookaburras. His first national team cap for the Kookaburras happened in 2006.[4] In 2006, he represented Australia at the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia.[5] In 2007, he competed in the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament. He played in the tournament game against New Zealand where Australia won 3-1.[7] He did not compete in the 2007 Champions Trophy competition for Australia.[7] In December 2007, he was a member of the Kookaburras squad that competed in the Dutch Series in Canberra.[16] In January 2008, he was a member of the senior national team that competed at the Five Nations men's hockey tournament in South Africa.[17][18] He represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics,[2][4] where he won a bronze medal.[4][19] These were his first Olympics and he was the youngest player on the Australian field hockey team. He was one of fourteen Tasmanians to represent Australia at the Games.[2] He scored two goals in the bronze medal game against the Netherlands in the country's 6-1 victory.[19] New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him, a returning member, alongside fourteen total new players who had few than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[20] In 2009, he participated in two test matched against Spain in Perth in the lead up to the Champions Trophy.[4] In 2009, he won a gold medal at the Men's Hockey Champions Trophy competition.[21][22] In 2010, he represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games,[13] where he won a gold medal when his side beat India 8-0 in front of an Indian home crowd.[23] His coach Ric Charlesworth described his performance at the Games as "exceptional."[23] In 2010, he won a gold medal at the World Cup. In the 2-1 victory in the gold medal round against Germany, he scored a goal in the sixth minute.[24] While at the World Cup, the Indian hosts provided extensive security for him and other hockey competitors. The Sydney Morning Herald said Jamie Dwyer said it was the tightest security he had ever seen as a competitor in an international competition.[25] Competing at the 2010 World Cup in India was the first time he had visited the country.[25] Because of other commitments, he could not compete at the Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia in May 2011.[26] In 2011, he won a gold medal in the Champions Trophy, scoring a goal in the gold medal match.[27][28][29] He captained the Australian side in the competition.[28][29] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad. This squad will be narrowed in June 2012. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.[30][31][32] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina.[1] In a game for the Kookaburras against Argentina, his team won 4-0 and he scored a goal.[33]

Recognition

In 2007 and 2008, he was named the best young player of the tournament at the Champions Trophy competition.[3]

In 2008, he was honoured by being named the Young Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation.[34]

In 2010, he earned the Kookaburra's 2010 Player of the Year award, an award he shared with Simon Orchard.[15]

In 2011, he was named in the World All-Star Team.[35]

References

  1. 1 2 "Kookaburras begin their Olympic Games Campaign". Perth, Western Australia: Hockey Australia. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Malarski, Paul (11 July 2008). "Games glory Selection sets Tassie's record 14 Olympians". Hobart Mercury (Australia). p. 56. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Stannard, Damien (7 September 2008). "Ocky has deal with the Dutch". The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia). p. 96. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Petrie, Andrea (22 November 2009). "World is watching this young Kooka in hot pursuit of glory — HOCKEY". The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia). p. 92. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Malarski, Paul (22 May 2006). "Tassie teenager in Australian team". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). p. 48. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  6. ↑ Hinds, Richard (12 August 2008). "Dwyer injury scare mars Kookas' romp — BEIJING 08 - DAY 4 - HOCKEY — Australia 6 Canada 1". The Age (Melbourne, Australia). p. 7. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 "Ockenden to miss Trophy But Dancer recalls Wells". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). 5 October 2007. p. 48. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  8. 1 2 Malarski, Paul (7 June 2011). "Lead-up augurs well for Tigers' campaign". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). p. 42. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  9. ↑ Clifford, Adam (10 September 2011). "Battle hinges on `Eddie O factor'". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). p. 85. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  10. ↑ Pike, Chris (1 October 2009). "AAP News: Hock: Charlesworth junior ready to don head-band". AAP News (Australia: Financial Times Limited — Asia Africa Intelligence Wire). Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  11. ↑ Singh, Ajitpal (26 April 2011). "New Straits Times (Malaysia): Aussies look powerful despite injury woes". Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "Scoreboard". Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia). 13 June 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  13. 1 2 Smith, Adam (2 September 2010). "Ockenden joins elite in Tassie top eight". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). p. 49. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  14. ↑ "scoreboard". Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia). 21 June 2010. p. 49. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  15. 1 2 Clifford, Adam (16 August 2011). "Eddie's triumph consoles Tigers". Hobart Mercury (Australia). p. 45. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  16. ↑ "Canberra Times: Lakers duo in Kookaburras side for series". Canberra Times (Canberra, Australia: Financial Times Information Limited — Asia Africa Intelligence Wire). 14 November 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  17. ↑ "Bulletin Wire: Fresh faces for next Kookaburras tour". Bulletin Wire (Australia: Financial Times Information Limited — Asia Africa Intelligence Wire). 20 December 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  18. ↑ "Kookas stick by Tassie duo". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). 21 December 2007. p. 59. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  19. 1 2 "Australia beats Netherlands for bronze". Associated Press Archive. 23 August 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  20. ↑ "Carroll, Abbott in new-look Kookaburras". Northern Territory News (Darwin, Australia). 15 April 2009. p. 46. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  21. ↑ Hand, Guy (29 November 2009). "Kookaburras off to a flying start after four of the best". The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia). p. 99. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  22. ↑ Petrie, Andrea (22 November 2009). "Young gun Ockenden hopes to follow in Dwyer's footsteps — HOCKEY". The Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia). p. 14. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  23. 1 2 Craddock, Robert (15 October 2010). "That's gold, Eddie Ockenden grabs perfect prize as Indians crushed". Hobart Mercury (Australia). p. 64. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  24. ↑ "The Observer: HOCKEY Australia win World Cup". The Observer (London, England). 14 March 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  25. 1 2 Wade, Matt (1 March 2010). "Hockey players surrounded by unprecedented security presence as World Cup gets under way — SECURITY". The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia). p. 16. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  26. ↑ "Deavin back in 'Burras". Hobart Mercury (Hobart, Australia). 20 April 2011. p. 59. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  27. ↑ Lowe, Robert (12 December 2011). "Kookas in flight for gold". The Courier Mail (Brisbane, Australia). p. 58. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  28. 1 2 Kumar, Manoj (12 December 2011). "INTERNATIONAL SCOREBOARD". Fiji Times (Suva: Fiji Times). Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  29. 1 2 "Australia beats Spain to win Champions Trophy". Associated Press Archive (Auckland). 11 December 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  30. ↑ AAP (14 December 2011). "Kookaburras name training squad for 2012 Olympic Games". Sydney: Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  31. ↑ "FOR THE RECORD". The Australian (Sydney, Australia). 15 December 2011. p. 35. AUS_T-20111215-1-035-447690. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  32. ↑ "SCOREBOARD". Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia). 15 December 2011. p. 116. DTM_T-20111215-1-116-447684. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  33. ↑ "Una gira sin alegría para la selección masculina" (in Spanish). Canchallena.com. 20 February 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  34. ↑ O'Neill, Brent (19 January 2012). "Sports extra with Brent O'Neill". City North News (Brisbane, Australia). p. 47. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  35. ↑ Clement-Meehan, Lindsay (3 February 2012). "Pocket defender gives plenty of stick — HOCKEY". Sydney Morning Herald (Australia). p. 15. Retrieved 14 March 2012.

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Awards
Preceded by
Australia Mark Knowles		 WorldHockey Young Player of the Year
2008 		Succeeded by
England Ashley Jackson
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