Kate Allen (field hockey)
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| Full name | Kate Ruth Allen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 February 1974 Adelaide, South Australia |
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| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Katie Allen (born 28 February 1974) is an Australian field hockey player. She was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that won gold medals at Commonwealth Games, Olympics Games and World Cup in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is a past FIH World Player of the Year.
She won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Allen was born in Adelaide.
Allen played for Burnside Hockey Club in South Australia as a junior.
Allen was a member of the SA Suns team in the Australian Hockey League. She helped the SA Suns win the Australian Hockey League title in 1995.
Allen played international hockey for the Australia women's national field hockey team (Hockeyroos), including the Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games and World Cup.
Following are the tournaments that Allen was part of:
In 2005 Allen was co-winner of the Women's FIH Player of the Year Awards.
Following her playing career Allen was the head coach of the Victorian Institute of Sport Hockey Program from 2009 to 2016.
In 2013 Allen was assistant coach of the Victorian Vipers in the Australian Hockey League.
In 2016 she was the Assistant Coach for the Australian Women’s junior team, the Jillaroos, who came third in the Junior World Cup in Chile medalling for the first time in 15 years in the competition.
Allen is the coach of the Camberwell Men's Premier League team in the Victorian Premier League Competition, becoming the first woman to coach a Men's Premier League team in Victoria.
As a member of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games gold medal winning Hockeyroos, Allen was named in the Australian Women's 'Team of the Century' at the 2013 ‘Centenary of Canberra Sportswomen’s Ball’ conducted at The Great Hall, Parliament House in Canberra.
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