Aleisha Power | |
Birth Date: | 1997 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Northam, Australia |
Position: | Goalkeeper |
Clubs1: | WA Diamonds |
Years1: | 2015–2018 |
Caps1: | 21 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Clubs2: | Perth Thundersticks |
Years2: | 2019– |
Caps2: | 7 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Nationalyears1: | 2015–2016 |
Nationalteam1: | Australia U–21 |
Nationalcaps1: | 14 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Nationalyears2: | 2017– |
Nationalteam2: | Australia |
Nationalcaps2: | 4 |
Nationalgoals2: | 0 |
Aleisha Power (born 1 January 1997)[1] is an Australian field hockey player, who plays as a goalkeeper.[2]
Aleisha Power was born and raised in Northam, Western Australia.[2]
From 2015 until the league's dissolution in 2018, Power was a member of the WA Diamonds squad in the Australian Hockey League (AHL).[3] [4]
In 2019, Hockey Australia introduced the Sultana Bran Hockey One, a new premier domestic hockey competition to replace the AHL.[5] Power was named in the Perth Thundersticks team for the inaugural season of the league, where she appeared in all six games.[4]
Aleisha Power was first named in the Australia U–21 squad in 2015.[6] She made her first appearance for the team later that year, in a series of test matches against Argentina in Buenos Aires.[7]
In 2016, she was a member of the team at the Junior Oceania Cup on the Gold Coast.[8] She followed this up with a bronze medal appearance at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago.[9]
At the Junior World Cup, Power was awarded Goalkeeper of the Tournament.[10]
Power made her Hockeyroos debut in 2017, during a test series against Japan in Adelaide.[2] [11]
She didn't make another appearance for the team until 2021,[8] when she was named in the Hockeyroos squad for the first time.[12]