Rachael Lynch and Georgie Morgan have won appeals against the decision to cut them from the squad in late 2020,although their selection for Tokyo remains uncertain.
Katrina Powell won Hockeyroos gold at the 1996 and 2000 Sydney Olympics and also has a 1998 Commonwealth Games gold medal to her name,as well as one world cup gold medal (1998) and three Champions Trophy wins (1997,1999 and 2003).
World goalkeeper of the year Rachael Lynch and former captain Georgina Morgan want to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in June,but remain frozen out of the squad despite the fact the selectors who dropped them have all resigned since the appeals were launched.
The suggestion that former coach Ric Charlesworth could take over the Australian women’s team came from Hockey Australia chief executive Matt Favier on Thursday.
Hockeyroos coach Paul Gaudoin has resigned in the wake of a scathing review that found “dysfunctional culture and leadership” in the sport “not conducive to athlete wellbeing or sustained on-field success”.
Cricket legend Belinda Clark is one of three people who will decide on the fate of appeals from two key Hockeyroos players who were sensationally dropped from the squad last year.
Hockey Australia’s high performance director Toni Cumpston has left the job weeks after players were notified that she would be taking extended leave from late December.
Three new people have been appointed to lead a review into problems with the Hockeyroos'culture after players had concerns about potential conflicts of interests.
Hockey Australia president Mel Woosnam has spoken for the first time after a torrid week of escalating claims about a longstanding toxic culture within the Hockeyroos camp.
Former Hockeyroos players and staff allege Hockey Australia knew of but did not address allegations of a “destructive” environment within the women’s national team camp from 2017-2018.
Twenty years ago the golden girls of Australian hockey lived up to their reputation,beating Argentina 3-1 to claim their second consecutive gold medal and their third in four Olympics.