SmokeFree WA Thundersticks
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| Nickname | Thundersticks | |
| Association | Hockey Australia Hockey Australia Hockey Australia is an organisation that formed from the merger of the Australian Hockey Association and Women's Hockey Australia in 2000. It is the national body responsible for the promotion, development and administration of field hockey in Australia... AHL Australian Hockey League The Australian Hockey League is Australia’s premier national domestic field hockey competition. Despite its non-professional nature, AHL is considered one of the strongest and most competitive national field hockey leagues in the world. The AHL consists of both men's and women's competition... |
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| Coach | Paul Gaudoin Paul Gaudoin Paul Charles Gaudoin is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Four years earlier, when Atlanta, Georgia hosted the Games, he won his first bronze medal at the Olympics... |
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| Captain | Bevan George Bevan George Bevan George is a retired field hockey defender from Australia.George won a gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and captained The Kookaburras at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where they won a bronze medal... |
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| Home Ground | Perth Hockey Stadium Perth Hockey Stadium Perth Hockey Stadium is a field hockey stadium in Perth, Australia. It hosted matches for the 1985 Champions Trophy and also the 2002 Women's Hockey World Cup. The stadium is located at Curtin University and holds 6,000 people. Starting in Late 2009 Perth Hockey Stadium replaced the turf with... Curtin University |
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The SmokeFree WA Thundersticks are a men's 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...
n 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...
team, representing Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
in the Australian Hockey League
Australian Hockey League
The Australian Hockey League is Australia’s premier national domestic field hockey competition. Despite its non-professional nature, AHL is considered one of the strongest and most competitive national field hockey leagues in the world. The AHL consists of both men's and women's competition...
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The Thundersticks have been the most successful team since the inception of the National Hockey League (NHL) (now the Australian Hockey League) in 1991 (the Thundersticks did not compete until 1992). Their home ground is the Perth Hockey Stadium
Perth Hockey Stadium
Perth Hockey Stadium is a field hockey stadium in Perth, Australia. It hosted matches for the 1985 Champions Trophy and also the 2002 Women's Hockey World Cup. The stadium is located at Curtin University and holds 6,000 people. Starting in Late 2009 Perth Hockey Stadium replaced the turf with...
at Curtin University of Technology
Curtin University of Technology
Curtin University is an Australian university based in Perth, Western Australia, with additional campuses in regional Western Australia and at Miri , Sydney and Singapore...
in Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
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They have also competed under the names, Perth Thundersticks & WAIS (Western Australian Institute of Sport
Western Australian Institute of Sport
The Western Australian Institute of Sport is an elite sports institute set up in 1983 by the Government of Western Australia to support athletes in Western Australia...
) Thundersticks.
The team were victorious in the 2008 AHL final played in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, defeating the Queensland Blades
Queensland Blades
The Blades are a men's Australian field hockey team, representing Queensland in the Australian Hockey League.The Blades have been the most successful team to play in recent years. Their home ground is the State Hockey Centre at Colmslie in Brisbane, Queensland.They have also competed under the name...
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Season standings
| Year | Position |
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| 1992 | Champions |
| 1993 | Champions |
| 1995 | Champions |
| 1996 | 4th |
| 1997 | Runners-Up |
| 1998 | 4th |
| 1999 | Champions |
| 2000 | Champions |
| 2001 | Runners-Up |
| 2002 | Champions |
| 2003 | Runners-Up |
| 2004 | Runners-Up |
| 2005 | 3rd |
| 2006 | 4th |
| 2007 | Runners-Up |
| 2008 | Champions |
| 2009 | Champions |
| 2010 | 4th |
Current squad
| No | Player | Position | Club |
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| 1 | Ross Meadows | Goalkeeper | Hale Hockey Club |
| 2 | Andrew Smith | Striker | The University of WA |
| 3 | Chris Bausor | Midfielder | The University of WA |
| 4 | Matthew Boyce | Midfielder | YMCC |
| 5 | Graeme Begbie | Defender | YMCC |
| 6 | Brent Dancer | Midfielder/Defender | WASPS |
| 7 | Phil Hulbert | Midfielder | Victoria Park Panthers |
| 8 | Travis Taylor | Striker | Victoria Park Panthers |
| 9 | Bevan George Bevan George Bevan George is a retired field hockey defender from Australia.George won a gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and captained The Kookaburras at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where they won a bronze medal... |
Defender | Curtin Trinity Pirates |
| 12 | Fergus Kavanagh | Midfielder | Hale Hockey Club |
| 15 | Greg Hearn | Striker | WASPS |
| 18 | Ian Burcher | Defender | Victoria Park Panthers |
| 24 | Jonathon Charlesworth | Striker | Westside Wolves |
| 28 | Kiel Brown Kiel Brown Kiel Brown is a field hockey midfielder from Australia, who won a gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 2008 Champions Trophy in Rotterdam and has been selected for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing... |
Midfielder | WASPS |
| Rhys Angwin | Striker | Curtin Trinity Pirates | |
| Craig Boyne | Striker | YMCC | |
| Mark Boyne | Defender | YMCC | |
| Tristan Clemons | Goalkeeper | Melville | |
| Judd Dyer | Striker | The University of WA | |
| Tom Edwards | Midfielder | Victoria Park Panthers | |
| Justin Knapp | Defender | Hale Hockey Club | |
| Leon Martin | Defender | Fremantle | |
| Nathan McGuire | Defender | Curtin Trinity Pirates | |
| Trent Mitton Trent Mitton Trent Mitton is an Australian field hockey player who plays for the WA Thundersticks and the Kookaburras. Mitton is a striker.Mitton first joined the Australian team as part of the 19-member Champions Trophy squad at the 2010 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Mönchengladbach, Germany... |
Striker | WASPS | |
| Matthew Naylor | Striker | WASPS | |
| Paul Nicholls | Striker | Fremantle | |
| Alistair Park | Midfielder | Westside Wolves | |
| Matthew Naylor | Striker | WASPS | |
| Sam Pike | Striker | The University of WA |
External links
- http://www.hockeywa.org.au/thunderstruck/thundersticks.cfm