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unusual facts about New Zealand women's national field hockey team


Ellen Hoog

In 2012, Hoog became the first player to decide a major championship match with a penalty shootout, taking the winning shot in the 2012 Summer Olympics semi-final against New Zealand


2002 Women's Rugby World Cup

The competition was won by defending champions, New Zealand.

Alyssa Lagonia

Lagonia made her senior international debut for Canada in March 2009, playing against New Zealand at the Cyprus Cup.

Amy Garnett

On each occasion, England reached the final, only to lose to New Zealand; Garnett was a member of the starting fifteen in each final.

Anjum Chopra

She made her debut in One-day Internationals on 12 February 1995 against New Zealand at Christchurch, New Zealand, and made her debut in Test cricket a few months later, against England at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 17 November 1995.

Australia men's national field hockey team

Barry Dancer/Brent Dancer and Ric Charlesworth/Jonathan Charlesworth are two pairs of father as coach and son as player while both were affiliated with the national team in those positions.

Noteworthy former and current members of the national team include Ric Charlesworth.

Betty Snowball

She scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth women's Test match in 1935, setting a world record for the highest individual innings in women's Test cricket which was not surpassed for over 50 years, until Sandhya Agarwal scored 190 in 1986.

Bishop Eustace Preparatory School

Kelli James (born 1970), former field hockey striker who earned a total number of 144 caps for the United States women's national field hockey team, and United States Olympian.

Carla Dupuy

At the 2009 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy she competed for winning team Argentina in her first senior international tournament.

Craig Parnham

He represented Great Britain in two Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004, and played club hockey for Stourport, Bridgnorth and Cannock.

Daniel Bowden

He said the decision to move north was based solely on wanting to get back to be with his family and girlfriend, Football Ferns captain Hayley Moorwood.

Dudley Park, Rangiora

Two Women's One Day Internationals have been played at Dudley Park, the first came in the 1982 Women's World Cup when New Zealand Women played Australia Women, while the second saw Australia Women play England Women in the 1991/92 Shell Tri-Series.

Emma Campbell

Emma Maree Campbell (born 18 February 1982 in Timaru) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals.

Gangotri Bhandari

Gangotri Bhandari (born August 13, 1956) in Garhwal, is a former player for the Indian Women's Hockey Team.

Grainville Cricket Ground

The most notable matches held on the ground came in 2002 when the England women's cricket team played a Women's One Day International Tri-Series against New Zealand Women and India Women.

Hesketh Park

During the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup, the ground held a single Women's One Day International when Australia women played New Zealand women.

Jon Elrick

His mum Nadine played more than 60 times for the New Zealand ladies' team.

Jonathon Charlesworth

He joined the Kookaburras in 2009, where he was coached by his father Ric Charlesworth.

Katie Glynn

She was noted for the semi-final match between New Zealand and the Netherlands at the 2012 Olympics, where eleven minutes into the second half, she was accidentally smacked in the head by the hockey stick of opponent forward Ellen Hoog as Hoog attempted to shoot at goal.

Kew Cricket Club Ground

The first recorded match on the ground was in 1973, when Jamaica women played New Zealand women in the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup.

Lorrie Fair

In March 1998 she scored her first international goal against New Zealand at RFK Stadium.

Melodie Robinson

Melodie Robinson (born 25 May 1973 in New Plymouth) is a New Zealand sports journalist and presenter, and former international rugby union player for the New Zealand women's national rugby union team.

New Zealand women's national cricket team

Maria is a product of the highly successful Timaru Girls’ High School team, which dominated the national secondary schoolgirls’ competition in the late ‘90s and was a member of the 2002 NZC Academy.

New Zealand women's national rugby union team

The Black Ferns have used Verusco Technologies TryMaker video analysis system, as used by the All Blacks.

Pritam Rani Siwach

Pritam Rani Siwach was born October 2, 1974 in village Jharsa near GurgaonHaryana) is a former captain of the Indian women's hockey team.

Tony Readings

Readings has coached the New Zealand women's national under-20 football team and is the coach of the New Zealand women's football team coaching the side in the 2012 London Olympics.

United States women's national field hockey team

The women's team, coached by Australia's Lee Bodimeade since 2005, made its first international appearance in 1920 when a touring team visited England, coached by Constance M.K. Applebee.

University Hall Turf Field

The Turf Field features a blue surface similar to the one used at the Riverbank Arena in London and was used by the United States women's national field hockey team prior to the 2012 Olympics for this reason.

Western Springs AFC

Past and present players include New Zealand Internationals Maia Jackman, Priscilla Duncan and Abby Erceg.

Women's football at the 2007 South Pacific Games

Papua New Guinea advanced to face New Zealand in a playoff game for a spot at the 2008 Olympics.

Women's sport in Australia

In 1988, at the Seoul Olympics, the Australian women's hockey team Hockeyroos, became the first Australian women's team sport to win an Olympic gold medal.


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