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The New Zealand Men’s Olympic Hockey team has been announced!
Congratulations to all of the players selected, with Auckland’s Simon Child named for an incredible fourth Olympics in the 16 man squad and Leon Hayward named as travelling reserve.
Four Auckland Clubs are well represented with 7 players featuring in the squad and 2 reserves:
- Auckland Indian Sports Club: Dom Dixon and Jake Smith
- Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club: Kane Russell, Blair Tarrant, Sam Lane, Hugo Inglis and Malachi Buschl (travelling reserve)
- Roskill Eden Hockey Club: Sam Hiha (non-travelling reserve)
- Southern Districts: Simon Child
- Nic Woods (Captain)
- Dom Dixon (Auckland Indian Sports Club)
- Charlie Morrison
- Kane Russell (Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club)
- Blair Tarrant (Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club)
- Simon Yorston
- Sean Findlay
- Isaac Houlbrooke
- Joe Morrison
- Hayden Phillips
- Scott Boyde
- Simon Child (Southern Districts Hockey Club)
- Sam Lane (Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club)
- Jake Smith (Auckland Indian Sports Club)
- Hugo Inglis (Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club)
- Dane Lett
Travelling Reserves: Leon Hayward, Brad Read, and Malachi Buschl (Howick Pakuranga) are our travelling reserves.
Non-travelling reserves: George Enersen, Benji Culhane, David Brydon, Aidan Sarikaya, George Baker, Jonty Elmes and Sam Hiha (Roskill Eden Hockey Club)
Team members were presented with their playing kit by members of New Zealand’s gold medal winning hockey team from the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games.
New Zealand will begin their Olympic campaign against India, July 28, before also facing defending champions Belgium, Australia, Argentina and Ireland in the pool stage.
