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Stephen “China” Davies is currently the Head Coach, Perth Thundersticks, Australian Hockey League, and a Member of the Hockey Australia Hall of Fame as a player.
International Coaching:
Rio Olympics 2016 - Assistant Coach - Australian Women's hockey Team; London Olympics 2012 - Assistant Coach - Australian Women's Hockey Team; World Cup 2014 (Silver Medal) - Assistant Coach - Australian Women's Hockey Team
Consultant to:
Hockey Australia's High Performance program; Belgian Men's & Women's National Program; US Men’s & Women's Hockey Program; Canadian Men's & Women's Hockey Program.
Playing Career:
274 International Caps for the Australia Men's hockey Team, 151 International Goals
1992 Olympic Games - Silver Medal
1996 Olympic Games - Bronze Medal
2000 Olympic Games - Bronze medal
1990 World Cup - Bronze Medal
1994 World Cup - Bronze Medal
 1998 World Cup - 4th Place

Key insights about the Field Hockey Curriculum for Players & Coaches.

“Impressed by the lifetime of knowledge and experience gone into creating this."

"Heavily influenced from Australian experience, it is very much a focus on attacking play and creating skills that allow people to be dangerous attacking hockey players."

"It's going to be a great source of inspiration. It gives players ideas on things to practice. For newer and younger players it definitely shows them some of the very serious fundamentals required to be a decent hockey player."

"This will be critical for clubs, schools and associations to be able provide a platform for new or inexperienced coaches to be able to tap into and find some resources that will give them the confidence to take on the role of coaching a junior team or junior players, which, as we all know, is the most critical part of our sport is to keep the young people turning up, wanting to play our great sport and to have great coaching and a good experience whilst doing that."

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