Ian Rutledge
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Ian Gregory Rutledge is a field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 coach, who was born in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. He attended both primary and secondary schooling in Orange, New South Wales, being a student at The Canobolas High School (now known as Canobolas Rural Technology High School) from 1985-1990.

Ian was responsible for qualifying the Black Sticks for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has continued to coach Australian National League Teams. He has been employed with Hockey Australia as Coaching Manager and the Australian Sports Commission as a High Performance Coach Consultant. Ian is currently employed as a Sports Performance Manager with the Australian Institute of Sport.

Ian is married (to Donnette Marjoram, who also attended Canobolas High), and has two children (Imogen and Joshua).
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