Jamie Dwyer

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.

[7] He met his wife-to-be while playing professional hockey in the Netherlands;[3] the couple now have two sons and a daughter.

[10] He currently plays in the top men's side at YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club in the Melville Toyota League.

Dwyer played for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League, and wore shirt number 1.

[10] Since making his senior side national team debut in 2001,[2][3] Dwyer played over 300 matches for Australia and scored over 200 goals.

[3] He scored an extra time goal in the final of the 2004 Olympics, which resulted in Australia winning the gold medal.

[2] In December 2007, he was a member of the Kookaburras squad that competed in the Dutch series in Canberra.

[2] He was carried off the pitch with a hip injury in the middle of the game against Canada that Australia won 6–1.

[23] In the gold medal match against India that Australia won 8–0, he captained the side and scored a goal.

[2] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad.

[25][26][27] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A squad, the Netherlands and Argentina.

In 2011, he coached a junior boys team at the YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club.

[30] In 2019, Jamie coached a junior 5/6 boys YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club team.

[34] On 18 June 2012, Jamie Dwyer was appointed to lead the number one Australian side in London Olympics.