Craig Victory

Craig Victory (born 3 February 1980 in Adelaide, South Australia) is a field hockey striker from Australia who played 102 international games for the Australia men's national field hockey team, the Kookaburras. He is a Commonwealth Games, World Cup and Champions Trophy Gold Medalist and was an Olympic Bronze Medalist with the Australia men's national field hockey team the Kookaburras at the 2000 in Sydney.[1]

Craig Victory
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born3 February 1980 (1980-02-03) (age 43)
Australia
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2000 SydneyTeam
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2002 ManchesterTeam
World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2002 Kuala Lumpur Team
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place1999 BrisbaneTeam
Silver medal – second place2001 RotterdamTeam
Silver medal – second place2003 AmstelveenTeam

As a successful coach, he has served as head coach of the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) hockey program, head coach of the 2011 winning SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) in the Australian Hockey League, Australian Junior Women's coach and assistant coach to the gold medal-winning Hockeyroos at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[2]

Personal

Craig lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

Field Hockey - Playing

Club Hockey

Craig played club hockey for the Port Adelaide District Hockey Club Magpies.

State Hockey

He represented South Australia as part of the Southern Hotshots (now known as the SA Hotshots).

International Hockey

Craig was a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team the Kookaburras from 1999 to 2006, playing 102 games and scoring 36 goals. He was a part of the bronze medal-winning Men's team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won a silver and gold medal at the World Cup and Commonwealth Games respectively.

He had his jaw broken following an on field incident involving Pakistan captain Muhammad Saqlain in a match at the Hamburg Masters in August 2005.

International Playing Career tournaments included:

Field Hockey - Coaching

State Coaching

Craig was head hockey coach of the South Australian Sports Institute program and also served as the Hockey SA Game Development Manager in the early/mid 2000s.

He coached the peak South Australian State Representative team, the SA Suns (then Southern Suns) to victory in the 2011 Australian Hockey League.[5]

International Coaching

Craig was selected as coach of the Australian U21 Junior women's team, the Jillaroos, in January 2013 and coached them until 2016. Key tournaments were:

He was also a part of the Senior Women's team, the Hockeyroos, staff as assistant coach for:

References
  1. "Hockey SA About Us - South Australian Olympians". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  2. "Australian Commonwealth Games Association - Craig Victory Profile". Archived from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  3. "Australian Olympic Committee - Craig Victory Profile". Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  4. "Hockey Australia - Get to know...the coaches". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  5. "Hockey SA - SA Suns Profile". Archived from the original on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
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