Bianca Joyce (née Greenshields; born 21 March 1990) is a former Australian field hockey player, who played as a midfielder.

Personal life

Bianca Joyce was born in

Nantawarra Nantawarra is a locality in South Australia located about north of the Adelaide city centre and within the local government area known as the Wakefield Regional Council. The locality occupies land on both sides of Highway 1 (Australia), Highwa ...

, South Australia. She married her husband, Tom, in 2013 and the pair now reside in Crystal Brook.

Career

Club level

During her career, Joyce was a member of Port Adelaide District Hockey Club before she moved to Perth, Western Australia in 2011 to join the

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High Performance Program, as a member of the

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squad.

Hockeyroos

Following a successful campaign in the 2010 AHL, Joyce was called up to make her debut for the Australian national team in 2011. She made her official debut in February 2011, in a test match against Argentina. In November 2011, following her string of performances throughout the year, Joyce was named in the Hockeyroos 27 player training squad for the

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. After failing to make the Olympics, Joyce was a member of the team at the 2012 Champions Challenge I in

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, where she won a gold medal. Joyce retired in 2013 after making 38 appearances for Australia.

International goals

References

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1990 births Living people Australian female field hockey players Female field hockey midfielders 21st-century Australian women Field hockey people from South Australia Sportswomen from South Australia {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub