Aleisha Power Explained

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]

Personal life

Aleisha Power was born and raised in Northam, Western Australia.[2]

Career

Domestic hockey

Australian Hockey League

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]

Hockey One

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]

Australia

Under–21

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]

Hockeyroos

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Team Details – Australia . . tms.fih.ch . 10 June 2021.
  2. Web site: Aleisha Power . . hockey.org.au . 10 June 2021.
  3. Web site: Maylands goalkeeper Aleisha Power brought to tears by first Hockeyroos call-up . . perthnow.com.au . 29 October 2017 . 10 June 2021.
  4. Web site: POWER Aleisha . . hockeyaustralia.altiusrt.com/ . 10 June 2021.
  5. Web site: Aleisha Power . . hockeyone.com.au . 10 June 2021.
  6. Web site: Women's Junior Squad named . https://web.archive.org/web/20150331030247/http://www.hockey.org.au/News/womens-junior-squad-named . dead . 31 March 2015 . . hockey.org.au . 10 June 2021.
  7. Web site: U21 Jillaroos go down to Argentina . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307164621/http://www.hockey.org.au/News/u21-jillaroos-go-down-to-argentina . dead . 7 March 2016 . . hockey.org.au . 10 June 2021.
  8. Web site: POWER Aleisha . . tms.fih.ch . 10 June 2021.
  9. Web site: Northam girl secures bronze . . farmweekly.com.au . 10 January 2017 . 10 June 2021.
  10. Web site: Argentina win women's Hockey Junior World Cup 2016 . . fih.ch . 10 June 2021.
  11. Web site: Hockeyroos goalkeeper Aleisha Power thrilled with international debut . . perthnow.com.au . 24 November 2017 . 10 June 2021.
  12. Web site: Hockeyroos squad finalised . . hockey.org.au . 10 June 2021.