Kathryn Slattery (born 30 July 1993) is an Australian

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player. She represented her country at the

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, in Rio De Janeiro . She has played both as a midfielder r and more recently as a forward. Slattery was born and grew up in the family farm, ''Bundeera'', in the small town of South Stirling in the Great Southern region of Western Australia along with her twin sister Meg, older sister Jess and older brother Matthew. She has a degree in Agribusiness from

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. In 2013 she played in the Australian Youth Olympic festival and scored one of the two goals in the 2-1 gold medal win against

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. Slattery then made her senior international debut against

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and was member of the silver medal winning team at the 2014 Champions Trophy, scoring a goal in the final. She was selected in the national team in 2015 and remained in the squad until her retirement. She played in a number of major tournaments, including the 2018 World Cup in London. She retired from international hockey at the end of 2018, and then travelled to Belgium to play for Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in the 2019 season. She played 91 games for Australia and scored 37 goals. She now resides in Albany, WA.

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* * * 1993 births Living people Australian female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Australia Place of birth missing (living people) Female field hockey forwards {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub