TWO young Redlands indoor hockey players will represent Queensland on a national stage in 2019.
Sinead Swartz from Mount Cotton and Charli Woosnam from Thornlands will be playing in the under 15 and under 13 state teams respectively in 2019 after putting on standout performances at the state indoor hockey invitationals in mid-November.
Fourteen-year-old Swartz, who has been playing hockey for almost ten years, said she was looking forward to playing in her third state team.
“It’s a really good feeling,” Swartz said.
“After all the training and all the hard work, it’s good that it pays off after a while.”
Thirteen-year-old Woosnam, who captained the Gold Coast under 13 team at the Queensland championships this year, has represented Queensland in outdoor hockey previously, but will be playing for her first indoor state team in 2019.
Swartz and Woosnam will now compete in the national championships, held in Goulburn in early January 2019.
“I’m a bit nervous but I am really really excited,” Woosnam said.
“All the girls that I played with last year I’m pretty much playing with again, so it’s good to see them again, since we’re scattered all over the place,” Swartz added.
For both athletes, hockey runs in the family. Swartz’s mother is a state player, and Woosnam’s is a former Hockeyroo and the current Hockey Australia board president.
For them, the national championships are the next step to fulfilling their sporting dreams.
“I want to be a Hockeyroo,” Swartz said.
“I think that’s a dream of pretty much everyone who plays hockey.”
