Aran Zalewski

Aran Zalewski

Personal information
Born	(1991-03-21) 21 March 1991 Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Playing position	Midfielder
National team
Years	Team	Caps	Goals
2011–present	Australia	193	(25)
Medal record Men's field hockey Representing Australia Olympic Games Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team World Cup Gold medal – first place 2014 The Hague Bronze medal – third place 2018 Bhubaneswar Oceania Cup Gold medal – first place 2013 Stratford Gold medal – first place 2015 Stratford Gold medal – first place 2017 Sydney Gold medal – first place 2019 Rockhampton Gold medal – first place 2023 Whangārei FIH Pro League Gold medal – first place 2019 Amstelveen Champions Trophy Gold medal – first place 2016 London Gold medal – first place 2018 Breda World League Gold medal – first place 2014–15 Raipur Gold medal – first place 2016–17 Bhubaneswar Commonwealth Games Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Team Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Team Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Team

Aran Zalewski (born 21 March 1991) is an Australian field hockey player who is the captain of the Australian national team.

Personal

He is from Margaret River, Western Australia. he attended Aquinas College in Perth, Western Australia. As a 12- and 13-year-old, he played in the Margaret River South West League.

Field hockey

He is a centre-half. He played junior hockey in Margaret River. As a 12- and 13-year-old, he played in the Margaret River South West League.

He made his state team debut when he was 15 years old.

National team

He participated in a training camp for the first time in October 2011. He had his first call up to the national team in October 2011 in a game against India at the Bunbury Hockey Stadium. He scored a goal in his debut in the 57th minute, a game Australia won 5–0.

In December 2011, he was named as one of fourteen players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national Olympic development squad. While this squad is not in the top twenty-eight and separate from the Olympic training coach, the Australian coach Ric Charlesworth did not rule out selecting from only the training squad, with players from the Olympic development having a chance at possibly being called up to represent Australia at the Olympics. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia. He was named the best player of the 2019 FIH Pro League after Australia won the first edition of the FIH Pro League. In December 2019, he was nominated for the FIH Player of the Year Award.

Zalewski was selected in the Kookaburras Olympics squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team reached the final for the first time since 2004 but couldn't achieve gold, beaten by Belgium in a shootout.

External links

• Aran Zalewski at Hockey.org.au (also at HockeyAustralia.altiusrt.com) (archive)