Casey Sablowski
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| Born | 19 March 1989(age35) Shellharbour,New South Wales,Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Casey Sablowski(néeEastham;born 19 March 1989, inShellharbour) is an Australian women'sfield hockeyplayer. Sablowski plays as a midfielder.
She made her debut for theAustralia women's national hockey team,commonly referred to as the Hockeyroos, at age 17. HerAustralian Hockey League(AHL) team is theNew South Wales Arrows.Sablowski was a talented junior player; she was selected into the Australian under-21s team to compete in the Junior World Cup in 2005 at the age of 16. At this tournament she was named one of the best players for the under-21s age group in the world.
After making the2008 Beijing Olympicteam, Sablowski was described by Australian coach, Frank Murray, as possibly becoming the best player in the world. Since making her debut, she has been a key member of the Hockeyroos. She scored four goals at the2008 Beijing Olympicsand at the 2009 Women's Champions Trophy in Sydney, Sablowski again scored four goals making her the second highest goal scorer at the tournament and Australia's highest goal scorer. She was a very important member of the Hockeyroos that competed in the 2009 Champions Trophy in Sydney that won silver against Argentina. In 2009 Sablowski was named the International Young Player of the Year[1]and was named in the International All Star Team.
At the2010 Commonwealth Gamesin Delhi, she was a member of the Australian team that won the gold medal by defeating New Zealand 4–2 on penalty strokes.
In 2012 she competed for Australia at the2012 Summer Olympics.[2]
In 2014, she was part of the Australian team that won gold at the20th Commonwealth Games.[3]She scored the first penalty in the shoot out that decided the final against England.[4]
In 2016, she played in the Rio2016 Olympic Games.[5]
References
[edit]- ^"Casey Eastham".Herald Sun.Retrieved17 March2012.
- ^"Casey Eastham Bio, Stats, and Results".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Archived fromthe originalon 6 August 2018.Retrieved8 January2018.
- ^"Glasgow 2014 – Casey Eastham Profile".g2014results.thecgf.com.Retrieved8 January2018.
- ^"Glasgow 2014 – Women's Gold Medal Match".g2014results.thecgf.com.Retrieved8 January2018.
- ^"Fresh faced women's hockey team vies for Rio gold".Hockey Australia.Retrieved8 January2018.
External links
[edit]- Casey Easthamat theInternational Hockey Federation
- Casey EasthamatOlympics.com
- Casey EasthamatOlympedia
- Casey Easthamat theAustralian Olympic Committee
- Casey Easthamat theCommonwealth Games Federation(archived)
- Casey Easthamat theCommonwealth Games Federation(archived)
- Casey SablowskiatHockeyAustralia.altiusrt.com
- Casey Sablowski at Hockey.org.auat theWayback Machine(archived 24 December 2016)
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- Australian female field hockey players
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Olympic field hockey players for Australia
- Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- 21st-century Australian women
- Field hockey people from New South Wales
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games