Glenn Simpson (born 5 May 1987) is an Australian field hockey player. He plays for the
Victorian Vikings
The Victorian Vikings are a field hockey team which participate in Australia's national field hockey league, the AHL. The team is mostly made up of amateurs who participate in the Victorian State League Division 1. Previous to being known as ...
Australia men's national field hockey team
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Simpson was born on 5 May 1987 and is from Melbourne, Victoria. When not playing hockey, he is an electrician.
Field hockey
Simpson started playing hockey as a seven-year-old and played junior hockey for Greensborough. As a junior player for Victoria, he was a member of a team that won the U21 national championships. He plays for the
Victorian Vikings
The Victorian Vikings are a field hockey team which participate in Australia's national field hockey league, the AHL. The team is mostly made up of amateurs who participate in the Victorian State League Division 1. Previous to being known as ...
, where is guernsey number is 21. He played for the team in the first found of the 2011 season.
National team
Simpson is a member of the
Australia men's national field hockey team
The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight Summer Olympic Games (1 ...
. His first national team cap was in February 2009 in a game against Belgium played 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 ...
. As of early 2012, he had 23 international caps and 6 international goals. 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 alongside current players to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the
2010 Commonwealth Games
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. In 2009, he was a member of the national team during a five-game test series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia against Malaysia. 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 2011, he won a gold medal in the Champions Trophy. The Spanish side in the final challenged his play but their challenge was not supported by video replay. In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the
2012 Summer Olympics
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Perth, Western Australia
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. 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 Kookaburras during the series. He scored a goal in his team's 2–1 victory over the Netherlands.
His national team teammates call him Simmo.