Eddie Ockenden

Eddie Ockenden is an Australian field hockey player, born on 3 April 1987 and raised in Moonah, Tasmania, who plays as a midfielder and striker. He began playing at the age of eight, encouraged by his mother, who also played hockey, and held a field hockey scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in 2006. He turned professional in 2008 with the Dutch side Laren and went on to play in the Netherlands in several seasons, while also playing club hockey in Tasmania and for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League. For the Australian men's national team, the Kookaburras, he won bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, gold at the 2010 World Cup and the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and gold at the Champions Trophy in 2009 and 2011. He shared the Kookaburras Player of the Year award in 2010 and was named in the World All-Star Team in 2011.