Tracey Lee Belbin OAM (born 24 June 1967 in Cairns, Queensland) is a former

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 ...

player from Australia, who represented her native country at two consecutive

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, starting in

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in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the gold medal with the Women's National Team. As a student of the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

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she graduated in 1993, getting a double major in

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. After her active career she became a hockey coach, working as an assistant for the South African Women's Team. In January 1999 Belbin was named Head Coach of the US Women's Team, with whom she won the silver medal at the

1999 Pan American Games The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and ...

. She resigned after the

2002 Women's Hockey World Cup The 2002 Women's Hockey World Cup was the 10th edition of the Women's Hockey World Cup field hockey tournament. It was held from 24 November to 8 December 2002 in Perth, Western Australia. Argentina won the tournament for the first time after d ...

. In 2009 Belbin was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.

References

Profile on US Field Hockey

External links

* 1967 births Living people Australian female field hockey players Australian field hockey coaches Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Australia Olympic gold medalists for Australia Field hockey people from Queensland Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Australian women {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub