Hattie Shand
Australian field hockey player
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Harriet 'Hattie' Ngaire Shand (born 11 January 2000)[1] is an Australian field hockey player, who plays as a defender.[2]
Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Harriet Ngaire Shand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
11 January 2000 Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | SA Suns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019– | Adelaide Fire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Australia U–21 | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Australia | 33 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
Hattie Shand was born in Naracoorte, South Australia and grew up in Langkoop, Victoria near Apsley, Victoria.[3] She attended Naracoorte Primary School and Naracoorte High School, she currently studies part-time at the University of Adelaide. She is of Australian and Maori heritage.
Career
Achievements
Shand is a scholarship holder at the South Australian Sports Institute.[4]
In 2021, she was awarded a Tier 3 Scholarship from the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[5]
Club hockey
Shand plays club hockey in South Australia's top level domestic competition, the Premier League. She is a member of the Adelaide Hockey Club.[6]
Domestic hockey
In Hockey Australia's domestic competitions, Shand plays for her home state, South Australia. From 2017 to 2018, she was a member of the SA Suns team in the Australian Hockey League (AHL).[7]
Following the dissolution of the AHL, Shand was named in the newly formed Adelaide Fire team for Hockey Australia's new premier competition, the Sultana Bran Hockey One.[8] She went on to represent the team in the inaugural season in 2019, helping the team to a third place finish.[9]
International hockey
Under–21
In 2018, Shand made her debut for the Australia U–21 team during a test series against New Zealand in Hastings.[10]
She followed this up with appearances during a Tri-Nations Tournament in 2019,[10] as well as a test series against Japan in 2020, both held in Canberra.[7]
Hockeyroos
In 2024, she joined the Australian Hockey team in the Olympics as a reserve[11]
