Georgie Parker (field hockey)

Georgina "Georgie" Parker (born 26 April 1989) is an Australian rules footballer and former field hockey player for the Hockeyroos.

Parker was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that were defeated by the Netherlands women's national field hockey team in the final of the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup, a gold medal winner at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and member of the team that went to the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Personal
Parker lives in Perth, Western Australia, as part of the national training program, having grown up in South Australia.

Club hockey
Parker played club hockey in the Riverland as a junior and later in Adelaide for the Adelaide Hockey Club. She also played a season for the Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium in 2016/17.

State hockey
In 2011, Parker was a member of the Australian Hockey League team the SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) that won the national championship in Darwin. She was the only goalscorer in the grand final winning 1–0 against the NSW Arrows.

International hockey
Parker has played over 100 international games for the Hockeyroos, including playing at the Commonwealth Games, Summer Olympics and World Cup.

Her tournaments include:
 * 2011 – Champions Trophy (Amstelveen, Netherlands) – 6th
 * 2013 – World League Finals (Tucuman, Argentina) – 2nd
 * 2013 – Oceania Cup (Stratford, New Zealand) – 1st
 * 2013 – World League Semi-Final (London, England) – 1st
 * 2013 – Hockey Super Series 9's (Perth, Australia) – 1st
 * 2014 – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland) – 1st
 * 2014 – Women's Hockey World Cup (The Hague, Netherlands) – 2nd
 * 2015 – World League Semi-Final (Antwerp, Belgium)- 3rd
 * 2015 – Hawke's Bay Hockey Festival (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand) – 1st
 * 2016 – Hawke's Bay Hockey Festival (Hawke's Bay, New Zealand) – 3rd
 * 2016 – 2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy (London, Great Britain) – 4th
 * 2016 – 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – quarter finals

AFL Women's career
In May 2017, Parker signed with Collingwood as a rookie for the 2018 AFL Women's season, fielding an offer from Adelaide too. She had no prior experience playing Australian football, but Collingwood viewed her as a potential midfield and forward line option.

On 4 June 2018, Parker was elevated to Collingwood's senior list ahead of the 2019 season.

In April 2019, Parker was delisted by Collingwood.

Statistics

 * Statistics are correct to the end of the 2019 season.

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 * 19 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 7 || 11 || 1 || 3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 2.0 || 3.5 || 5.5 || 0.5 || 1.5
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 * 19 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 4.0
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Media Career
Parker has a double degree in Journalism and PR, and is available as a guest speaker.

As at 2022, she is the host of the Seven Network TV show "Armchair Experts" – an analysis of the Australian Football League scene.