Megan Rivers (born 10 October 1980) is an Australian

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 ...

player who competed in the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

and

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ...

. Her nicknames are Snowy and Nanny Rivs. Megan's club is the NSW Arrows in Sydney, NSW, Australia. She plays right hand and is a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. Her coach is Adam Commens. She was born in

Bowral Bowral () is the largest town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, about ninety minutes southwest of Sydney. It is the main business and entertainment precinct of the Wingecarribee Shire and Highlands. Bowral once served ...

, New South Wales.

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* * * 1980 births Living people Australian female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for Australia Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Bowral Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Sportswomen from New South Wales Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Female indoor hockey players 2007 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub