Joel Carroll

Joel Carroll (born September 1986 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is an Australian field hockey player. He played club field hockey for University team in the Darwin Hockey Association A-Grade league, and for the NT Stingers in the Australian Hockey League. He was a member of Australia's junior U21 team. He also represented Australia on the senior men's team, winning a gold medal with the side at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2010 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy. He was part of the 2012 Olympic team that won the bronze medal.

Personal Carroll was born on 11 September 1986 in Darwin, Northern Territory. He is from the Northern Territory. His uncle is Joe Daby, one of the best ever Northern Territory field hockey players. He is recognized in the Australian Olympic Committee list of Australian Indigenous Olympians.

Field hockey Carroll is a defender, but he has played other positions including right-midfield in 2003, a position he preferred to play. In June 2005, he was one of five Northern Territory players to represent Australia on the U21 team at the World Cup. He made his national team debut in 2009. He earned a gold medal at the Games. In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad. He was one of two players from the Northern Territory named to the squad. In 2012, he was a finalist for the Toll Transitions and Toll Marine Logistics Sports Award, an award presented by the Sun Newspapers.