Aleisha Power (born 1 January 1997) is an Australian
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...
player, who plays as a goalkeeper.
Personal life
Aleisha Power was born and raised in
Northam, Western Australia
Northam () is a town in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated at the confluence of the Avon and Mortlock Rivers, about east-northeast of Perth in the Avon Valley. At the 2016 census, Northam had a population of 6,548. Northa ...
.
Career
Domestic hockey
Australian Hockey League
From 2015 until the league's dissolution in 2018, Power was a member of the
WA Diamonds
The WA Diamonds are a women's field hockey team based in Perth, Western Australia. The team compete in the women's division of the Australian Hockey League
The Australian Hockey League (AHL)Australian Hockey League
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(AHL).
Hockey One
In 2019,
Hockey Australia
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introduced the Sultana Bran Hockey One, a new premier domestic hockey competition to replace the AHL. Power was named in the
Perth Thundersticks
The Perth Thundersticks are an Australian professional hockey club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was established in 2019, and is one of 7 established to compete in Hockey Australia's new premier domestic competition, Hockey One.
Th ...
team for the inaugural season of the league, where she appeared in all six games.
Australia
Under–21
Aleisha Power was first named in the Australia U–21 squad in 2015. She made her first appearance for the team later that year, in a series of test matches against
Argentina
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in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
.
In 2016, she was a member of the team at the Junior Oceania Cup on the
Gold Coast
Gold Coast may refer to:
Places Africa
* Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana:
** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642)
** Dutch G ...
. She followed this up with a bronze medal appearance at the
FIH Junior World Cup
The Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup, formerly known as the Hockey Junior World Cup, is an international field hockey competition organized by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The tournament was started in 1979. Since 1985 it has been ...
in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
.
At the Junior World Cup, Power was awarded Goalkeeper of the Tournament.
Hockeyroos
Power made her
Hockeyroos
The Australia women's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Hockeyroos) are, as of January 2019, ranked third in the world. Having played their first game in 1914, and their first Olympic game in 1984, they are one of Australia's most succes ...
debut in 2017, during a test series against
Japan
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in
Adelaide
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.
She didn't make another appearance for the team until 2021, when she was named in the Hockeyroos squad for the first time.