Jennifer McDonald
Encyclopedia
Jennifer Enid McDonald is a retired field hockey
player from New Zealand
, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics
in Los Angeles, California
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McDonald made her international debut in 1971 and played 192 matches for New Zealand, including 94 tests. For the first eight years of her fifteen year international career, she played at centre-forward and was a prolific goal-scorer, with more than 200 goals in internationals. She was named captain for the 1980 Summer Olympics
in Moscow
from which hockey withdrew, but by the time of the next Games, in Los Angeles, she was still captain of The Black Sticks. In 1980, McDonald’s was the only New Zealander chosen in a World Team to play hockey's powerhouse The Netherlands.
In 1996 she was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
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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...
player from New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
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McDonald made her international debut in 1971 and played 192 matches for New Zealand, including 94 tests. For the first eight years of her fifteen year international career, she played at centre-forward and was a prolific goal-scorer, with more than 200 goals in internationals. She was named captain for the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
from which hockey withdrew, but by the time of the next Games, in Los Angeles, she was still captain of The Black Sticks. In 1980, McDonald’s was the only New Zealander chosen in a World Team to play hockey's powerhouse The Netherlands.
In 1996 she was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame is an organisation commemorating New Zealand's greatest sporting triumphs. It was inaugurated as part of the New Zealand sesquicentenary celebrations in 1990. Some 160 members have been inducted into the Hall of Fame since its inception representing a wide...
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