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Aleisha Power

Aleisha Power

Australian field hockey player

Aleisha Power (born 1 January 1997)[1] is an Australian field hockey player, who plays as a goalkeeper.[2]

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Personal life

Aleisha Power was born and raised in Northam, Western Australia.[2]

Career

Domestic hockey

Australian Hockey League

From 2015 until the league's dissolution in 2018, Power was a member of the WA Diamonds squad in the Australian Hockey League (AHL).[3][4]

Hockey One

In 2019, Hockey Australia introduced the Sultana Bran Hockey One, a new premier domestic hockey competition to replace the AHL.[5] Power was named in the Perth Thundersticks team for the inaugural season of the league, where she appeared in all six games.[4]

Australia

Under–21

Aleisha Power was first named in the Australia U–21 squad in 2015.[6] She made her first appearance for the team later that year, in a series of test matches against Argentina in Buenos Aires.[7]

In 2016, she was a member of the team at the Junior Oceania Cup on the Gold Coast.[8] She followed this up with a bronze medal appearance at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago.[9]

At the Junior World Cup, Power was awarded Goalkeeper of the Tournament.[10]

Hockeyroos

Power made her Hockeyroos debut in 2017, during a test series against Japan in Adelaide.[2][11]

She didn't make another appearance for the team until 2021,[8] when she was named in the Hockeyroos squad for the first time.[12]

References

  1. [1]
    "Team Details – Australia". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "Aleisha Power". hockey.org.au. Hockey Australia. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "Maylands goalkeeper Aleisha Power brought to tears by first Hockeyroos call-up". perthnow.com.au. Perth Now. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "POWER Aleisha". hockeyaustralia.altiusrt.com/. Hockey Australia. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "Aleisha Power". hockeyone.com.au. Hockey One. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "Women's Junior Squad named". hockey.org.au. Hockey Australia. Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "U21 Jillaroos go down to Argentina". hockey.org.au. Hockey Australia. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "POWER Aleisha". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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    "Northam girl secures bronze". farmweekly.com.au. Farm Weekly. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  10. [10]
    "Argentina win women's Hockey Junior World Cup 2016". fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  11. [11]
    "Hockeyroos goalkeeper Aleisha Power thrilled with international debut". perthnow.com.au. Perth Now. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  12. [12]
    "Hockeyroos squad finalised". hockey.org.au. Hockey Australia. Retrieved 10 June 2021.


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