Georgie Parker (field hockey)
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| Born |
26 April 1989 Berri, South Australia, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | SA Suns | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Adelaide | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2011–present | Australia | 108 | (33) | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 14 December 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Georgie Parker (born 26 April 1989) is an Australian field hockey player for the Hockeyroos who wears the number 19.[1]
Georgie was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that were defeated by the Netherlands women's national field hockey team in the final of the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup, a Gold Medal winner at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and member of the team that went to the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2][3]
Personal
Georgie lives in Perth, Western Australia as part of the national training program, having grown up in South Australia.
Field Hockey
Club Hockey
Georgie played club hockey in the Riverland as a junior and later in Adelaide for the Adelaide Hockey Club. She also played a season for the Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium in 2016/17.
State Hockey
In 2011, Georgie was a member of the Australian Hockey League team the SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) that won the national championship in Darwin. She was the only goalscorer in the grand final winning 1-0 against the NSW Arrows.[4]
International Hockey
Georgie has played over 100 international games for the Hockeyroos, including the Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games and World Cup.
Her tournaments include:
- 2011 - Champions Trophy (Amstelveen, Netherlands) - 6th
- 2013 - World League Finals (Tucuman, Argentina) - 2nd
- 2013 - Oceania Cup (Stratford, New Zealand) - 1st
- 2013 - World League Semi-Final (London, England) - 1st
- 2013 - Hockey Super Series 9's (Perth, Australia) - 1st
- 2014 - 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland) - 1st [5]
- 2014 - Women's Hockey World Cup (The Hague, Netherlands) - 2nd [5]
- 2015 - World League Semi-Final (Antwerp, Belgium)- 3rd
- 2015 - Hawke's Bay Hockey Festival (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand) - 1st
- 2016 - Hawke's Bay Hockey Festival (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand) - 3rd
- 2016 - 2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy (London, Great Britain) - 4th
- 2016 - 2016 Summer Olympics Games (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - quarter finals[1][6]
References
- 1 2 "Hockeyroos athlete profiles - Georgie Parker". Hockey Australia. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ↑ "Hockey SA About Us - South Australian Olympians". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ↑ "Player detail - Hockey World Cup 2014 - Georgie Parker". Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ↑ "Hockey SA - SA Suns Profile". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- 1 2 "Rio 2016 Olympic Profiles - Georgie Parker". Retrieved 2 January 2017.
- ↑ "South Australians Karri McMahon, Georgie Parker and Jane-Anne Claxton to debut at Olympic Games in Rio". Hockey Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
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