Jamie Dwyer

Jamie Dwyer (born 12 March 1979) is an Australian field hockey player. He currently plays for YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club in the Melville Toyota League in Perth, Western Australia. He previously played for the Queensland Blades in the Australian Hockey League. He debuted for Australia as a junior player in 1995, and for the senior side in 2001. He played over 365 matches for Australia and scored over 244 goals. He represented Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he won a gold medal and the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics where Australia won bronze medals. He has also represented Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games where he won a gold medal and the 2010 Commonwealth Games where he also won gold. He has won silver medals at the 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup and the 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup. He won a gold medal at the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup and the 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play the game.

Personal Jamie Dwyer was born on 12 March 1979 in Rockhampton, Queensland. His nickname is Foetus. He met his wife-to-be while playing professional hockey in the Netherlands;

Field hockey Jamie Dwyer is a midfielder/striker.

Club hockey Dwyer has played club hockey in Australia. In 1998, he played for the Easts club in the Brisbane-based competition. He currently plays in the top men's side at YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club in the Melville Toyota League. Since making his debut for the club in 2011, Jamie has played in 4 premierships.

Professional hockey Dwyer also played professional hockey in Europe. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, he played professional hockey in the Netherlands, where the hockey season lasts seven months. for Bloemendaal H.C. In 2008, he played for Laren in the Netherlands. In 2011, he played club hockey for Mannheim in Germany. In 2012, he played for the Bloemendaal H.C. in the Netherlands. In 2001, he won a silver medal in the Champions Trophy competition. In 2005, he earned a gold medal at the Champions Trophy competition. In 2008, his team finished first in the Champions Trophy competition. New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him, a returning member, alongside fourteen total new players who had fewer than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2009, he participated in two test matche against Spain in Perth in the lead up to the Champions Trophy. In 2009, he won a gold medal at the Men's Hockey Champions Trophy competition. He was a member of the national team in 2010. That year, he was a member of the team that finished first at the Hockey Champions Trophy. In the gold medal match against India that Australia won 8–0, he captained the side and scored a goal. He also won a gold medal at the World Cup and the Champions Trophy in 2010. In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A squad, the Netherlands and Argentina. He had a short break from training following the test series. In February 2011, he ran two clinics for young hockey players at the Joondalup Lakers Hockey Club. In 2019, Jamie coached a junior 5/6 boys YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club team.

International goals No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1. 10 May 2001 Melbourne, Australia 3–1 3–1 2001 Men's Oceania Cup 2. 12 May 2001 1–0 1–1 3. 27 February 2002 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1–0 5–1 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup 3. 1 March 2002 1–0 6–0 4. 7 March 2002 2–0 4–1 5. 4–0 3. 28 July 2002 Manchester, England 2–0 4–1 2002 Commonwealth Games 4. 30 July 2002 6–0 20–1 5. 8–0 6. 19–1 7. 4 August 2002 2–0 5–2 8. 4–0 9. 5–1 10. 15 August 2004 Athens, Greece 2–0 4–1 2004 Summer Olympics 11. 3–0 12. 4–1 13. 17 August 2004 1–2 2–2 14. 2–2 15. 19 August 2004 2–1 4–3 16. 27 August 2004 2–1 2–1 17. 17 November 2005 Suva, Fiji 14–0 26–0 2005 Men's Oceania Cup 18. 19–0 19. 23–0 20. 24–0 21. 25–0 22. 26–0 23. 22 March 2006 Birmingham, England 1–1 5–2 2006 Commonwealth Games 24. 24 March 2006 2–0 6–0 25. 26 March 2006 3–0 3–0 26. 12 September 2006 Mönchengladbach, Germany 1–0 7–1 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup 27. 6–1 28. 13 September 2006 2–0 3–0 29. 15 September 2006 3–2 4––2 30. 11 September 2007 Buderim, Australia 5–0 35–0 2007 Men's Oceania Cup 31. 7–0 32. 12–0 33. 13–0 34. 14–0 35. 24–0 36. 27–0 37. 29–0 38. 13 August 2008 Beijing, China 1–0 10–0 2008 Summer Olympics 39. 7–0 40. 15 August 2008 2–1 3–1 41. 19 August 2008 2–1 3–3 42. 25 August 2009 Invercargill, New Zealand 1–0 26–0 2009 Men's Oceania Cup 43. 10–0 44. 12–0 45. 13–0 46. 14–0 47. 26 August 2009 2–2 5–2 48. 5–2 49. 29 August 2009 3–1 3–1 46. 14 October 2010 New Delhi, India 7–0 8–0 2010 Commonwealth Games 47. 25 October 2011 Hobart, Australia 2–1 3–3 2011 Men's Oceania Cup 48. 30 July 2012 London, United Kingdom 1–0 6–0 2012 Summer Olympics 49. 4–0 50. 5–0 51. 3 August 2012 2–0 2–2 52. 7 August 2012 6–0 7–0 53. 11 August 2012 2–1 3–1 54. 17 June 2013 Rotterdam, Netherlands 1–0 7–1 2012–13 Men's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals 55. 2–0 56. 3–0 57. 5–1 58. 7–1 59. 30 October 2013 Stratford, New Zealand 4–0 32–0 2013 Men's Oceania Cup 60. 11–0 61. 20–0 62. 26–0 63. 30–0 64. 2 November 2013 7–0 16–0 65. 11–0 66. 21 June 2015 Brasschaat, Belgium 3–0 10–0 2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals 67. 24 June 2015 4–1 6–1 68. 28 June 2015 2–0 6–2 69. 1 July 2015 2–0 4–1 70. 21 October 2015 Stratford, New Zealand 11–0 17–0 2015 Men's Oceania Cup 71. 14–0 72. 22 October 2015 1–0 3–1 73. 24 October 2015 6–0 36–0 74. 14–0 75. 20–0 76. 26–0 77. 28–0 78. 33–0 79. 25 October 2015 2–0 3–2 80. 28 November 2015 Raipur, India 1–0 1–0 2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League Final 81. 2 December 2015 2–0 4–1 82. 12 August 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1–0 9–0 2016 Summer Olympics 83. 2–0

Recognition In 2002, Dwyer was named the Young Hockey Player of the Year by the International Hockey Federation. In 2004 and 2007, he was named the IHF World Player of the Year. In 2007, he was named the Captain of the World Team. In 2011, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'. On 18 June 2012, Jamie Dwyer was appointed to lead the number one Australian side in London Olympics. In 2021, Dwyer was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.