Katrina Powell
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Katrina Maree "Triny" Powell OAM (born 8 April 1972 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) is a field hockey player from Australia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996, for her native country.
Powell was a member of the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the Hockeyroos, that won the gold medals at the 1996 and the 2000 Summer Olympics. Powell has represented her country 252 times, and scored 141 goals. She is the sister of Lisa Powell and the sister-in-law of Stuart Carruthers.
Powell was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1997 Australia Day Honours[1] and the Australian Sports Medal in June 2000.[2]
In March 2021, she was appointed Hockeyroos coach - the first female coach of the side in 43 years. [3]
References[]
- ^ "Katrina Maree Powell". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "Katrina Maree Powell, OAM". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "Olympics: Powell takes over Australia's 'Hockeyroos' after period of turmoil". Reuters. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- Australian Olympic Committee
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Triny Powell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Australian female field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players of Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Sportspeople from Canberra
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- ACT Academy of Sport alumni
- Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs
- Australian field hockey biography stubs