Jamie Dwyer

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Jamie Dwyer
Personal information
Born (1979-03-12) 12 March 1979 (age 45)
Rockhampton, Queensland,
Australia
Height 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Playing position Centre
Club information
Current club easts in brisbane
Senior career
Years Team
1998–2010 Queensland Blades
2009, 2012 Bloemendaal HC
2013–2015 Punjab Warriors
2016–2017 Uttar Pradesh Wizards
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2016 Australia 326 (215)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2010 New Delhi Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 The Hague Team
Silver medal – second place 2002 Kuala Lumpur Team
Silver medal – second place 2006 Mönchengladbach Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2005 Chennai Team
Gold medal – first place 2008 Rotterdam Team
Gold medal – first place 2009 Melbourne Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Mönchengladbach Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Auckland Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne Team
Silver medal – second place 2001 Rotterdam Team
Silver medal – second place 2003 Amstelveen Team
Silver medal – second place 2007 Kuala Lumpur Team
Oceania Cup
Gold medal – first place
2007 Buderim
 Team
Gold medal – first place
2011 Hobart
 Team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Manchester Team
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Team
Last updated on: 13 April 2015

Jamie Dwyer

OAM (born 12 March 1979) is an Australian field hockey player. He currently plays for YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club in the Melville Toyota League in Perth, Western Australia. He also played for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League. He debuted for Australia as a junior player in 1995, and for the senior side in 2001. He has played over 350 matches for Australia and scored over 220 goals. He has represented Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he won a gold medal and the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics where Australia won bronze medals. He has also represented Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games where he won a gold medal and the 2010 Commonwealth Games where he also won gold. He has won silver medals at the 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup and the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup. He won a gold medal at the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup and the 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup
. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play the game.

Personal

Jamie Dwyer was born on 12 March 1979 in

Perth, Western Australia as that is where the national team is based.[6] His present manager is former Test cricketer Stuart MacGill
.

Field hockey

Jamie Dwyer is a midfielder/striker.[2] In 1999, he had a scholarship with and played for the Australian Institute of Sport team.[9]

Club hockey

Dwyer has played club hockey in Australia. In 1998, he played for the

Easts club in the Brisbane-based competition.[10] He currently plays in the top men's side at YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club in the Melville Toyota League. Since making his debut for the club in 2011, Jamie has played in 4 premierships.[11]

Professional hockey

Dwyer plays professional hockey in Europe. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, he played professional hockey internationally in the Netherlands, where the hockey season lasts seven months.[3] In 2009, he played professional hockey in the Netherlands[12] for Bloemendaal H.C.[6] Ten thousand people would show up to games he played in for his Dutch team.[6] In 2008, he played for Laren in the Netherlands.[13] In 2011, he played club hockey for Mannheim in Germany.[14] In 2012, he was playing for the Bloemendaal H.C. in the Netherlands.[2] Dwyer now plays in India for the Punjab Warriors.

State team

Dwyer did play for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League, and wears shirt number 1.[2] He was with the team in 1997 as an eighteen-year-old 1998 as a nineteen-year-old.[10] In 2010, he played in the final game of the season for Queensland in the Australian Hockey League.[15]

National team

In 1995, Dwyer made his junior national team debut on the U18 and U21 sides.[10] He played for the junior national team in 1996, 1997 and 1998.[10]

Since making his senior side national team debut in 2001,

New Zealand Black Sticks. Final Olympic section will occur several days before this test and his inclusion in the series will be contingent upon being selected.[5]
Dwyer does not play for the National team anymore.

Coaching

Dwyer has coached field hockey. In 2011, he coached a junior boys team at the YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club.[11][31] In February 2011, he ran two clinics for young hockey players at the Joondalup Lakers Hockey Club.[32] In 2019, Jamie coached a junior 5/6 boys YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club team. He has since taken to mentoring you Future Trans Tasman Player of The Tournament, "O-Dawg". Some go as far as to rename "O-Dawg" as "Jamie Junior".

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 10 May 2001 Melbourne, Australia  New Zealand 3–1 3–1 2001 Men's Oceania Cup
2. 12 May 2001  New Zealand 1–0 1–1
3. 27 February 2002 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  Poland 1–0 5–1 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup
3. 1 March 2002  Cuba 1–0 6–0
4. 7 March 2002  Netherlands 2–0 4–1
5. 4–0
3. 28 July 2002 Manchester, England  South Africa 2–0 4–1 2002 Commonwealth Games
4. 30 July 2002  Barbados 6–0 20–1
5. 8–0
6. 19–1
7. 4 August 2002  New Zealand 2–0 5–2
8. 4–0
9. 5–1
10. 15 August 2004 Athens, Greece  New Zealand 2–0 4–1
2004 Summer Olympics
11. 3–0
12. 4–1
13. 17 August 2004  Argentina 1–2 2–2
14. 2–2
15. 19 August 2004  India 2–1 4–3
16. 27 August 2004  Netherlands 2–1 2–1 (
a.e.t.
)
17. 17 November 2005 Suva, Fiji  Fiji 14–0 26–0 2005 Men's Oceania Cup
18. 19–0
19. 23–0
20. 24–0
21. 25–0
22. 26–0
23. 22 March 2006 Birmingham, England  New Zealand 1–1 5–2 2006 Commonwealth Games
24. 24 March 2006  Malaysia 2–0 6–0
25. 26 March 2006  Pakistan 3–0 3–0
26. 12 September 2006 Mönchengladbach, Germany  New Zealand 1–0 7–1 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup
27. 6–1
28. 13 September 2006  Pakistan 2–0 3–0
29. 15 September 2006  South Korea 3–2 4––2
30. 11 September 2007 Buderim, Australia  Papua New Guinea 5–0 35–0 2007 Men's Oceania Cup
31. 7–0
32. 12–0
33. 13–0
34. 14–0
35. 24–0
36. 27–0
37. 29–0
38. 13 August 2008 Beijing, China  South Africa 1–0 10–0 2008 Summer Olympics
39. 7–0
40. 15 August 2008  Pakistan 2–1 3–1
41. 19 August 2008  Great Britain 2–1 3–3
42. 25 August 2009 Invercargill, New Zealand  Samoa 1–0 26–0 2009 Men's Oceania Cup
43. 10–0
44. 12–0
45. 13–0
46. 14–0
47. 26 August 2009  New Zealand 2–2 5–2
48. 5–2
49. 29 August 2009  New Zealand 3–1 3–1
46. 14 October 2010 New Delhi, India  India 7–0 8–0
2010 Commonwealth Games
47. 25 October 2011 Hobart, Australia  New Zealand 2–1 3–3 2011 Men's Oceania Cup
48. 30 July 2012 London, United Kingdom  South Africa 1–0 6–0 2012 Summer Olympics
49. 4–0
50. 5–0
51. 3 August 2012  Argentina 2–0 2–2
52. 7 August 2012  Pakistan 6–0 7–0
53. 11 August 2012  Great Britain 2–1 3–1
54. 17 June 2013 Rotterdam, Netherlands  France 1–0 7–1 2012–13 Men's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals
55. 2–0
56. 3–0
57. 5–1
58. 7–1
59. 30 October 2013 Stratford, New Zealand  Samoa 4–0 32–0 2013 Men's Oceania Cup
60. 11–0
61. 20–0
62. 26–0
63. 30–0
64. 2 November 2013  Papua New Guinea 7–0 16–0
65. 11–0
66. 21 June 2015 Brasschaat, Belgium  France 3–0 10–0 2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals
67. 24 June 2015  Pakistan 4–1 6–1
68. 28 June 2015  India 2–0 6–2
69. 1 July 2015  Ireland 2–0 4–1
70. 21 October 2015 Stratford, New Zealand  Fiji 11–0 17–0 2015 Men's Oceania Cup
71. 14–0
72. 22 October 2015  New Zealand 1–0 3–1
73. 24 October 2015  Samoa 6–0 36–0
74. 14–0
75. 20–0
76. 26–0
77. 28–0
78. 33–0
79. 25 October 2015  New Zealand 2–0 3–2
80. 28 November 2015 Raipur, India  Belgium 1–0 1–0 2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League Final
81. 2 December 2015  Germany 2–0 4–1
82. 12 August 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  Brazil 1–0 9–0 2016 Summer Olympics
83. 2–0

Recognition

Dwyer has been recognised for his hockey play. In 2002, he was honoured by being named the Young Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation.[2][3][33] In 2004 and 2007, he was named the IHF World Player of the Year.[2][3] In the 2005 Australia Day Honours Dwyer was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).[34] In 2007, he was named the Captain of the World Team.[2] In 2011, he was named the international field hockey player of the year.[8] In 2011, he was named in the World All-Star Team.[35] In 2011, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'.[36] On 18 June 2012, Jamie Dwyer was appointed to lead the number one Australian side in London Olympics.[37] In 2021, Dwyer was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[38]

References

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Awards
Preceded by FIH Rising Star of the Year
2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by FIH Player of the Year
2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by FIH Player of the Year
2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by FIH Player of the Year
2009–2011 		Succeeded by
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