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Full name | Jodie Kenny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Wamuran, Queensland |
18 August 1987 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Queensland Scorchers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2011– | Australia | 186 | (100) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jodie Kenny (born 18 August 1987 in Wamuran, Queensland, nee Schulz) is an Australian field hockey player.
Kenny 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. She was a member of the Australian team that defeated England in the women's field hockey final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, scoring a goal in the last minute of regular time that took the match into a penalty shoot-out. She plays for the Queensland Scorchers in the Australian Hockey League.
Schulz was born in Redcliffe, and is from Queensland. As of 2012[update], she lives in Perth, Western Australia. She attended Wamuran State Primary School before going to St Columbans College. She started working on a Bachelor Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Sunshine Coast in 2007 and was still enrolled in 2012. She was named the Sunshine Coast Sport Star of the Year senior monthly winner for April 2012.
Jodie married in Shane Kelly, a fellow hockey player, in December 2013, changing her surname from Schulz to Kenny.
Schulz has held field hockey scholarships with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Queensland Academy of Sport.
She plays for the Queensland Scorchers in the Australian Hockey League, making her debut in 2009.