Brent Dancer, is an Australian field hockey player. He is a goalscoring defender and plays for the WA Thundersticks in the Australian Hockey League, whom he won a championship with in 2008. He made his debut as a member of the

Australia men's national field hockey team The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight Summer Olympic Games ( ...

in 2009. He was trying to earn a place in the team to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Personal

Discotheque Dancer is from Western Australia. He is from Perth's northern suburbs. He lives in

Scarborough, Western Australia Scarborough is a coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located approximately 14 km northwest of the city centre in the City of Stirling local government area. Located along the coast of the Indian Ocean, it was named after the Engli ...

. His father,

Barry Dancer Barry John Dancer (born 27 August 1952 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian field hockey player and coach of Australian men's national field hockey team. As a player he competed in 48 international matches for Australia between 197 ...

, coached the Australian side at the 2004 Athens Olympics where Australia won a gold medal, the only men's field hockey Olympic gold medal the team has ever won. When he was younger, he played soccer because of the game's similarities to field hockey.

Field hockey

Dancer is a defender/fullback. He started playing field hockey when he was six years old. His father is his personal field hockey coach. His father has also coached him as a member of the national team. He plays club hockey for a Perth area team located in the city's southern suburbs. He plays for the WA Thundersticks in the Australian Hockey League. In 2008, he was a member of the WA Thundersticks that won the league championships, with a score of 6–2 against the Queensland Blades in a match held in Canberra. In the match, he scored a goal.

National team

Dancer became involved with the Australian national team's development group in 2006. He was named to the Kookaburra training squad in early 2009. In 2009, he and Jonathon Charlesworth made their national team debut during a five-game test series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, against Malaysia. The pair's debut was notable because both are the sons of famous Australian field hockey coaches: Charlesworth's father is

Ric Charlesworth Richard Ian Charlesworth AO (born 6 February 1952) is an Australian sports coach and former politician. He played first-class cricket for Western Australia and international field hockey for the Kookaburras (the Australian national team), win ...

, the current coach of the men's senior team and Dancer's father is

who coached the men's field hockey team to their first Olympic gold in 2004. In May 2011, he played in the Azlan Shah Cup for Australia. The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Britain and New Zealand. 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. This squad will be narrowed in June 2012. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in

Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...

. 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. The series was called "Hockey in the Summertime".

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