[1][2] He moved to Perth, Western Australia on a part-time basis because he was on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport to play hockey and the team is based there.

[3] Paterson plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Australian Hockey League.

The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Britain and New Zealand.

[6] 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.

[7][8][9] 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.