Clover Maitland (born 14 March 1972 in Maryborough, Queensland) represents Australia in women's

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 ...

. The goalie was part of the double winning Olympic team in 1996 and 2000 along with the gold medal winning team in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in

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, Malaysia. Maitland was awarded the

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(OAM) in the

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and the

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in June 2000.

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Australian Olympic Committee
Australian female field hockey players Female field hockey goalkeepers Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Australia Olympic field hockey players of Australia 1972 births Living people People from Maryborough, Queensland Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Field hockey people from Queensland Sportswomen from Queensland {{Australia-Olympic-medalist-stub