Joel Carroll

Joel Carroll (born September 1986 in Darwin) 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.[1]

Joel Caroll

Joel Carroll - 2012 Olympic field hockey team Australia
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	1986 (age 34–35) Darwin, Northern Territory
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Field hockey
Event(s)	Men's team
Medal record Men's field hockey Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2012 London Team Hockey at the Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Team Champions Trophy 2010 Mönchengladbach Team 2012 Melbourne Team

Personal

Carroll was born on 11 September 1986 in Darwin, Northern Territory.[2][3] He is from the Northern Territory.[4] His uncle is Joe Daby, one of the best ever Northern Territory field hockey players.[5] He is recognized in the Australian Olympic Committee list of Australian Indigenous Olympians.[6]

Field hockey

Carroll is a defender,[7] but he has played other positions including right-midfield in 2003, a position he preferred to play.[7] In 2001 and 2002, he played A-Grade Hockey in the DHL League for perennial stalwarts Nightcliff Tigers Hockey Club, where his team won two premierships in both years.[7] In 2002, as a fifteen-year-old, he played for the U18 and U21 Northern Territory teams in the national championships.[7] In 2003, he was the youngest competitor in an Australian Hockey League between the NT Stingers and the NSW team, when he started for the NT Stingers in their season opener when he was 16 years old. He played for the team during the 2003 preseason.[7] In January 2005, he was a member of Australia's U21 national team and played in a five-game test series against Malaysia in Brisbane. He was one of four Darwin, Northern Territory based players on the squad.[8] In June 2005, he was one of five Northern Territory players to represent Australia on the U21 team at the World Cup.[8]

National team

New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named Carroll and thirteen new players who had less than ten national team caps to the senior national squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[9] He made his national team debut in 2009.[2] In 2010, he represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games, and played in the game against Pakistan during the group stage.[10] He earned a gold medal at the Games.[11] In 2010, he won a gold medal at the Champions Trophy.[11] He did not compete at the Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia in May 2011 because he was injured.[12] 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.[3][13][14][15] He was one of two players from the Northern Territory named to the squad.[3] This squad will be narrowed in June 2012. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.[13][14][15] 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.[4]

Recognition

In 2009, Carroll was nominated for the Qantas NT Sportsperson of the Year.[16] In 2012, he was a finalist for the Toll Transitions and Toll Marine Logistics Sports Award, an award presented by the Sun Newspapers.[11]

References

1. "Joel Carroll Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
2. "AIS Hockey — Joel Carroll". Bruce, Australian Capital Territory: Australian Institute of Sport. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
3. "Olympic hopes — Territory pair in Kookaburras squad". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. 15 December 2011. p. 36. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
4. "Kookaburras begin their Olympic Games Campaign". Perth, Western Australia: Hockey Australia. 7 February 2012. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
5. "THEY called Joe Daby the `'Flying 5'` at NTFL club Nightcliff for 210 games and 18 seasons". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. 25 February 2012. p. 516. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
6. "Australian Indigenous Olympians" (PDF). Australian Olympic Committee website. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
7. Earle, Richard (25 February 2003). "Stingers' youngster set for AHL debut". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. p. 35. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
8. "Territorians score on world stage". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. 28 December 2005. p. 37. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
9. "Carroll, Abbott in new-look Kookaburras". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. 15 April 2009. p. 46. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
10. Hanlon, Peter (10 October 2010). "Kookaburras sweat it out as Pakistan push champs — XIX COMMONWEALTH GAMES DAY 6 - HOCKEY". The Sun Herald. Sydney, Australia. p. 70. 20101010000032980349. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
11. "Sports talent in race". Darwin & Palmerston Sun. Australia. 7 March 2012. p. 5. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
12. "Deavin back in 'Burras". Hobart Mercury. Hobart, Australia. 20 April 2011. p. 59. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
13. "Kookaburras name training squad for 2012 Olympic Games". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney. Australian Associated Press. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
14. "FOR THE RECORD". The Australian. Sydney, Australia. 15 December 2011. p. 35. AUS_T-20111215-1-035-447690. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
15. "SCOREBOARD". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. 15 December 2011. p. 116. DTM_T-20111215-1-116-447684. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
16. "QANTAS NT SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR". Northern Territory News. Darwin, Australia. 27 March 2009. p. 32. Retrieved 15 March 2012.