Timothy Bates is an Australian field hockey player.

[1] Bates plays for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League.

[2] In July 2011, Bates was a member of the Kookaburras team at the INSEP Challenge in Paris.

While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics.

He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.