Emily Smith (field hockey)
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||
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28 July 1992 Crookwell, New South Wales |
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| Height | 159 cm (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (9.0 st; 126 lb) | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Field hockey | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | |||||||||||||
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Emily Smith (born 28 July 1992) is an Australian field hockey player. She has been selected to represent Australia in field hockey at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics along with other competitions.
Smith was born on 27 July 1992 in Crookwell, New South Wales and is from Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales. She attended St Mary's Primary School in New South Wales before going on to Crookwell High School. She has deferred admissions to the University of New South Wales where she will major in Exercise Physiology. She moved to Sydney in 2011 before moving to Perth, Western Australia where she now lives.
Smith is 159 centimetres (63 in) tall and weighs 57 kilograms (126 lb).
Smith played junior hockey in Crookwell. She has held a field hockey scholarship at the New South Wales Institute of Sport and the Australian Institute of Sport. She plays for the NSW Arrows in the Australian Hockey League, where she wears shirt number 3. She has played club field hockey for the Crookwell Golf Club, ANU, and the Park Panthers.
When Adam Commens became the Hockeyroos' new coach in January 2011, Smith was one of four players identified to develop the national side. She made her Australia women's national field hockey team debut in a 2011 match against the New Zealand women's national field hockey team in Hobart, Tasmania. In June 2012, she played in the Investec London Cup. She played in Australia's 1–4 loss to the Netherlands, scoring her team's only goal. In the 4–1 win against Ireland in the lead up London, she scored the team's second goal. Her goal was the second of the tournament. As of June 2012[update], she had 22 caps with the Hockeyroos, and 7 international goals.
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