Georgie Parker (field hockey)
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Parker playing field hockey for Australia in June 2016
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26 April 1989 Adelaide, South Australia |
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Australian rules football career
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| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | SA Suns | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2011–present | Australia | 108 | (33) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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| Last updated on: 14 December 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Utility | ||
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| Current club | Collingwood | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
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| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2018– | Collingwood | 2 (0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2018 season.
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Georgie Parker (born 26 April 1989) is an Australian field hockey player for the Hockeyroos who wears the number 19.
Parker was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that were defeated by the Netherlands women's national field hockey team in the final of the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup, a gold medal winner at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and member of the team that went to the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Parker lives in Perth, Western Australia, as part of the national training program, having grown up in South Australia. On 6 January, 2018, she married Jacob (dogga) Griffiths.
Parker played club hockey in the Riverland as a junior and later in Adelaide for the Adelaide Hockey Club. She also played a season for the Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium in 2016/17.
In 2011, Parker was a member of the Australian Hockey League team the SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) that won the national championship in Darwin. She was the only goalscorer in the grand final winning 1–0 against the NSW Arrows.
Parker has played over 100 international games for the Hockeyroos, including playing at the Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games and World Cup.
Her tournaments include:
In May 2017, Parker signed with Collingwood as a rookie for the 2018 AFL Women's season, fielding an offer from Adelaide too. She had no prior experience playing Australian football, but Collingwood view her as a potential midfield and forward line option.
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