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Name
  
Georgie Parker

Role
  
Field hockey


Height
  
1.60 m

Weight
  
68 kg

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Georgie Parker (born 26 April 1989) is an Australian field hockey player for the Hockeyroos who wears the number 19.

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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.

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Personal

Georgie lives in Perth, Western Australia as part of the national training program, having grown up in South Australia.

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.

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
  • 2014 - Women's Hockey World Cup (The Hague, Netherlands) - 2nd
  • 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
  • References

    Georgie Parker (field hockey) Wikipedia