Glenn Simpson (field hockey)
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| Nationality | Australia | ||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||
| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||
| Event | Men's team | ||||||||
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Personal
He is from Victoria.[1]
Field hockey
He plays for the Victorian Vikings in the Australian Hockey League. He played for the team in the first found of the 2011 season.[2]
National team
New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him and thirteen new players who had less than ten national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[3]
In 2009, he was a member of the national team during a five game test series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia against Malaysia. [4]
In May 2011, he played in the Azlan Shah Cup for Australia. The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Britain and New Zealand.[5]
In 2011, he won a gold medal in the Champions Trophy. The Spanish side in the final challenged his play but their challenge was not supported by video replay.[6]
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.[7][8][9] 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] He played for Kookaburras during the series. He scored a goal in his team's 2-1 victory over the Netherlands.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Kookaburras begin their Olympic Games Campaign". Perth, Western Australia: Hockey Australia. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
- ^ "Scoreboard". Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. June 13, 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ^ "Carroll, Abbott in new-look Kookaburras". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. April 15, 2009. p. 46. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ^ AAP (October 2, 2009). "Charlesworth welcomes son". The Australian. Australia. p. 37. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ^ Singh, Ajitpal (April 26, 2011). "New Straits Times (Malaysia): Aussies look powerful despite injury woes". Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ^ Kumar, Manoj (December 12, 2011). "INTERNATIONAL SCOREBOARD". Fiji Times. Suva: Fiji Times. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ^ AAP (14 December 2011). "Kookaburras name training squad for 2012 Olympic Games". Sydney: Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
- ^ "FOR THE RECORD". The Australian. Sydney, Australia. December 15, 2011. p. 35. AUS_T-20111215-1-035-447690. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
{{cite news}}: Text "location" ignored (help) - ^ "SCOREBOARD". Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. December 15, 2011. p. 116. DTM_T-20111215-1-116-447684. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ Stephan, Gene (February 17, 2012). "A-classs win for hockey second-stringers". The West Australian. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
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