Russell Ford

Russell David Ford (born 18 August 1983) is an Australian former field hockey player. His first national team appearance was in 2006. As of July 2011, he had 21 goals from 76 appearances with the national team.

Personal Ford is from Victoria. He was born in Eltham, Victoria and lived in the town while growing up. He attended Eltham High School and was in Year 11 in 2000.

Field hockey Ford started playing hockey when he was eight years old

Ford's first national team international cap came in 2006 in a game against India. He competed in the 2007 Champions Trophy competition for Australia. In December 2007, he was a member of the Kookaburras squad that competed in the Dutch Series in Canberra. In January 2008, he was a member of the senior national team that competed at the Five Nations men's hockey tournament in South Africa. New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him, a returning member, alongside fourteen new players who had few than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. As of July 2011, he had 21 goals from 76 appearances with the national team. 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. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the team that won the bronze medal. He has played club hockey in the Netherlands for HC Bloemendaal and HC Tilburg.