The Offical Site Of Jamie Dwyer, Five Time FIH World Hockey Player Of The Year.

ABOUT JAMIE DWYER

Jamie Dwyer has been named the world's best hockey player five times, firstly in 2004 and again
2007, 2009 & 2010. His hockey success story started in Rockhampton where he was born and
bred. Jamie picked up his first stick when he was four, his parents both played hockey and at the
Rockhampton Hockey grounds and this is where he had his first hit.

Jamie played lots of sports during his childhood, he excelled in both hockey and cricket. By the
age of 15 he had to make a choice. He was offered a cricket scholarship which meant he would
have to move to Brisbane. He loved cricket, but the thought of never being able to go to compete
at the Olympics didn't encourage him. Jamie's dream was to win an olympic gold medal and
represent his country. Besides that he liked the game of hockey better because its faster and more
energetic.

After Jamie finished school at 17 he moved down to Brisbane to pursue his Olympic dream. He
made the Queensland Blades team and from there was selected into the Hockey AIS (Australian
Institute of Sports) in Perth in 1999. It wasn't until after the Sydney Olympics that Jamie was
selected in the Australian men's hockey team. When Jamie made his Australian debut in 2001, he
had the option of choosing a range of jersey numbers, including the vacant number #1 jersey. It
was never really a choice. He wanted the number one, so he took it.

By 2004, the International Hockey Federation had put its official seal on Dwyer's bullishness,
voting him player of the year. He won the prestigious prize again in 2007, 2009 & 2010 cementing
his status as Australia's best ever hockey product.

Yet Dwyer remains far from one of Australia's best recognised sporting stars. It's a different story in
Spain and particularly in India and The Netherlands, where Dwyer has played club hockey. Hockey
has become the number two sport behind soccer in The Netherlands, thanks to regular TV
coverage. In his two seasons playing for Bloemendaal in the Dutch league, Jamie Dwyer regularly
had to stop and sign autographs for his Dutch fans.

Jamie has learned a lot from playing overseas in The Netherlands, Spain and India. He has
learned to adapt to all different styles of hockey that are played throughout the world. The way the
Dutch play is different to the Australians and that's the same for the Spaniards who play different
again to the Dutch and to the Australians. Jamie found it very interesting to see and learn about the
different playing styles and sometimes it was difficult for him to adapt because of these differences.
In 2004 Jamie's childhood dream finally came true, he was the man who scored the winning goal
in the Gold medal match, which secured the Kookaburras first ever Olympic Gold medal. By
winning the Gold medal match the Australian Men's hockey team broke Australia's 48 year Olympic
gold medal drought.

That Olympic golden goal, which secured the 2-1 victory over the strongly fancied Dutch team, was
a gem of a strike from a penalty corner. As lethal as Jamie is at set-pieces, it's Dwyer's individual
moves in general play which set him apart. One of his most brilliant goals he scored at the World
Cup in Germany in 2006. You can check it out on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?
v=0g2EIqgVi3Y In the clip Jamie dribbles past two defenders, then flicks the ball into the net from
the skinniest of angles.

This kind of shot was a very risky one that not everyone would take. But Dwyer has always been a
risk taker. Earlier in his career this didn't help him much because that was probably one of the
reasons he did not make the Australian team before 2001, but during his international hockey
career he has learned how to take more calculated risks. He does not like boring hockey, he likes
people who do unique things in the game like Teun de Nooijer.

Now Jamie Dwyer is one of the most experienced players in the Australian squad, one of the cocaptains.
In 2010 Dwyer completed his medal cabinet by winning the world cup in India. He was
super keen to get a World Cup Gold medal because he was so close to it twice before and lost in
the final both in 2006 and 2002. As for his playing future he is looking to keep playing until the
2012 Olympics in London when he'll be 33.

He is also thinking about the future in other ways. As hockey is definitely not the best paid sport he
is trying to make it a bit more lucrative, one way of doing this is, Jamie feels is to increase the
game's appeal from the ground up. Currently, up to 140,000 Australians play hockey at junior and
senior level. In 2008 Dwyer formed a company with fellow Kookaburra Mark Knowles called 1&9
Coaching (the name reflects his and Knowles's jersey numbers) to try to instill the hockey bug in
kids. Big picture aside, he's hoping the clinics, will prove a nice earner. Go to www.
1and9coaching.com for more info.

ACHIEVEMENTS WITH AUSTRALIAN TEAM

OLYMPICS

• 2008 Bronze Medal (Beijing)
• 2004 Gold Medal (Athens)

WORLD CUP

• 2010 Gold Medal (India, New Delhi)
• 2006 Silver Medal (Moenchengladbach, Germany)
• 2002 Silver Medal (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

CHAMPIONS TROPHY

• 2010 Gold Medal (Germany, Moenchengladbach)
• 2009 Gold Medal (Australia, Melbourne)
• 2008 Gold Medal (Holland, Rotterdam)
• 2007 Silver Medal (Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
• 2005 Gold Medal, (India, Chennai)
• 2003 Silver Medal (Holland, Amsterdam)

PERSONAL SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS

• FIH Word Hockey Player of the Year: 2010, 2009, 2007 and 2004
• FIH Junior World Hockey Player of the Year: 2002
• Australian Player of the Year: 2009
• QAS Sports Star of the Year: 2010
• 2005 Gold Medal, (India, Chennai)
• 2003 Silver Medal (Holland, Amsterdam)
• Player of the Tournament:
  • 2010: Champions Trophy (Germany, Moenchgladbach)
  • 2008: Champions Trophy (Holland, Rotterdam)
  • 2006: World Cup (Germany, Moenchengladbach)

OVERSEAS CLUB ACHIEVEMENTS

• Dutch National Championship:
  • Season 2009/10 (Hockey Club Bloemendaal)
  • Season 2008/09 (Hockey club Bloemendaal)
  • Season 2005/06 (Hockey club Bloemendaal)
• Euro League Champion:
  • Season: 2008/09 (Hockey club Bloemndaal)

(Also played in national hockey competitions in Spain (2006/07 Royal Club de Polo, Barcelona)
and India (Maratha Warriors 2007)

NATIONAL COMPETITION ACHIEVMENTS

• Australian Hockey League:
  • 2010 Gold
  • 2008 Silver
  • 2007 Gold
  • 2006 Gold
  • 2005 Silver
  • 2003 Gold
  • 2002 Silver
  • 1999 Silver

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