Meg Pearce
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1 July 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defense, midfield | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2018 | Victorian Vipers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019– | Brisbane Blaze | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Australia U–21 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Australia | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Meg Pearce (born 1 July 1994)[1] is an Australian field hockey player, who plays as a defender[2] and midfielder.[3]
Meg Pearce grew up in Melbourne, Victoria. Her father participates in Ironman events, and her mother runs in marathons. Following after her father and sister, both hockey players, she started playing hockey when six years old, at the Doncaster Hockey Club, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. After finishing secondary school, she studied arts at university, and began working as a personal trainer, before completing a double degree in commerce and nutrition. She played on the Under-21 Victorian state team in 2014 and 2015, and played with the Victorian Vipers, before moving to Brisbane. She joined Brisbane Blaze for the 2019 season.[4][5][3][6] She later relocated to Perth, working in marketing for a financial services firm.[6]
She is a scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport,[7] as well as a member of Hockey Queensland's High Performance Squad.[8]
