Kate Starre

Australian field hockey player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kate Starre OAM (born 18 September 1971 in Armadale, Western Australia) is a former field hockey midfielder from Australia, who competed for her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain). She was a member of the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the Hockeyroos, that won the gold medals at the 1996 and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

FullnameKathryn Starre
Born (1971-09-18) 18 September 1971 (age 54)
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Kate Starre
Personal information
Full nameKathryn Starre
Born (1971-09-18) 18 September 1971 (age 54)
Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaTeam
Gold medal – first place2000 SydneyTeam
World Cup
Gold medal – first place1994 DublinTeam
Gold medal – first place1998 UtrechtTeam
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place1998 Kuala LumpurTeam
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place1991 BerlinTeam
Gold medal – first place1993 AmstelveenTeam
Gold medal – first place1995 Mar del PlataTeam
Gold medal – first place1997 BerlinTeam
Bronze medal – third place2000 AmstelveenTeam
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She is the head coach for Canterbury Ladies 1XI, in England, from the start of the 2017–18 season. In June 2018, Starre joined the Fremantle Football Club's AFL Women's team as a high performance manager. One of her key areas of focus is implementing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention program.[1]

Starre was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1997 Australia Day Honours[2] and the Australian Sports Medal in June 2000.[3]

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