Peter Noel
Peter Geoffrey Noel (born 28 March 1963), known as the Guru, is a former field hockey player from Australia, who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for his native country.[1] He was a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team, best known as the Kookaburras.
Personal
[edit]Noel lives in Adelaide, South Australia.
Field hockey
[edit]Club hockey
[edit]Noel played club hockey for Campbeltown Hockey Club in South Australia – now North East Hockey Club. He now plays for Adelaide Hockey Club, for their Metro Competition M5 Men's division.
State hockey
[edit]Noel played in the Southern Hotshots team in the National Hockey League (now Australian Hockey League) in 1994, 1995 and 1996. [2]
International hockey
[edit]He made his Olympic Games debut where he was a Goal Keeper in 1988 in Seoul where the Kookaburras finished fourth.[3][4][5] He played in the same team as Ric Charlesworth and Graham Reid (sportsman) who would go on to coach the national teams themselves.
References
[edit]- ^ "Hockey SA About Us - South Australian Olympians". Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "State Representatives". North East Hockey Club. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ "Australian Athletes in Hockey". Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Peter Noel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ "History – Olympians". Hockey SA. Archived from the original on 19 June 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
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