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11 unusual facts about Ric Charlesworth


Aran Zalewski

While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics.

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.

George Bazeley

Bazeley gained the attention of the national team after a coaching change that brought Ric Charlesworth in.

Grant Schubert

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.

Joel Carroll

New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named Carroll and thirteen new players who had less than ten national team caps to the senior national squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Jonathon Charlesworth

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

Matthew Butturini

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.

Ric Charlesworth

During this time they won the Champion's Trophy in 1993 (Amsterdam), 1995 (Mar del Plata), 1997 (Berlin) and 1999 (Brisbane), the World Hockey Cup in 1994 (Dublin) and 1998 (Netherlands) and were gold medallists in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and Sydney Olympics in 2000 and 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.

The team went on to win the 2009 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Melbourne, Australia; the 2010 Hockey World Cup in New Delhi, India; the 2010 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Mönchengladbach, Germany; and the 2010 Commonwealth Games Men's Hockey Gold Medal in Delhi, India.

Richard Charlesworth

Ric Charlesworth, Australian cricketer and field hockey player and coach