Daphne Pirie,

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AO née Welch; (21 December 1931 – 1 April 2022) was an Australian

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, and golfer, and a sports administrator and world-ranked

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. In 1989, Pirie was awarded a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to hockey. She was the first female vice-president of the

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Olympic Council and, in 2011, she received the

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Women and Sport trophy for

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. In 2012, Pirie was named a

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and was appointed an Officer of the

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for her services to sports administration, hockey and as an advocate for women and girls in sport. Pirie was the founding president for Womensport Queensland and is an inductee in both the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame and Hockey Queensland Hall of Fame. She held life memberships with Hockey Australia, Women's Hockey Australia and Hockey Queensland and was a board member of the Queensland Academy of Sport and President of the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pirie, Daphne 1931 births 2022 deaths Australian female field hockey players Officers of the Order of Australia Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire Queensland Greats