Harriet 'Hattie' Ngaire Shand (born 11 January 2000) is a
field hockey
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player from
Australia
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, who plays as a defender.
Personal life
Hattie Shand was born in Naracoorte, South Australia and grew up in Langkoop, Victoria, at the age of two she was diagnosed with autism. She attended Naracoorte Primary School and Naracoorte High School, she currently studies part-time at the University of Adelaide.
Career
Achievements
Shand is a scholarship holder at the
South Australian Sports Institute
Sport plays an important role in the business, community, social and cultural life in South Australia.
Sport as entertainment plays an important role with South Australia having the second highest rate of event attendance of all states and terri ...
.
In 2021, she was awarded a Tier 3 Scholarship from the
Sport Australia Hall of Fame
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.
Club hockey
Shand plays club hockey in
South Australia
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's top level domestic competition, the Premier League. She is a member of the Adelaide Hockey Club.
Domestic hockey
In
Hockey Australia
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's domestic competitions, Shand plays for her home state, South Australia. From 2017–2018, she was a member of the
SA Suns
The SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns - prior to 2015) are a women's field hockey team based in South Australia that competes in the Australian Hockey League (AHL).
The SA Suns won national championships in 1995 and 2011.
Current Team
The followi ...
(AHL).
Following the dissolution of the AHL, Shand was named in the newly formed
Adelaide Fire
Adelaide Fire is an Australian professional field hockey club based in Adelaide, South 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.
The c ...
team for Hockey Australia's new premier competition, the Sultana Bran Hockey One. She went on to represent the team in the inaugural season in 2019, helping the team to a third place finish.
International hockey
Under–21
In 2018, Shand made her debut for the Australia U–21 team during a test series against
New Zealand
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in
Hastings
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east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
.
She followed this up with appearances during a Tri-Nations Tournament in 2019, as well as a test series against
Japan
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in 2020, both held in
Canberra
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is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...