Mark Paterson is an Australian field hockey player. He has played most of his Hockey career with the Glebe District Hockey Club. He plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the

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was Australia's premier national domestic

. He is a member of the

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. He is trying to make the squad that will represent Australia at the

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Personal

Paterson is from

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. He moved to

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on a part-time basis because he was on scholarship with the

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to play hockey and the team is based there.

Field hockey

Paterson played for the Glebe District Hockey Club, playing in the first grade for them in 2008, 2009 and 2012. In 2008 and 2009, he was the club's captain. Paterson plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the

Australian Hockey League The Australian Hockey League (AHL)AHL Webpage
was Australia's premier national domestic

...

. He played in a June 2010 game for the New South Wales against the Tassie Tigers that New South Wales won 6–3. He scored a goal in the game.

National team

Paterson is a member of the

. New national team coach

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), winn ...

named him and thirteen new players who had less than ten national team caps before alongside older members to the squad in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

. In 2009, he was a member of the team during a three-game test series against Belgium. 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

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

. 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. He played for the Kookoaburras against Argentina in the second game of the series where his team won 3–1. He scored a goal for his team.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paterson, Mark Australian male field hockey players Living people 1985 births Field hockey people from New South Wales Sportsmen from New South Wales