Kayla Whitelock

MNZM

Whitelock in 2020
Personal information
Born	Kayla Marie Sharland (1986-10-30)30 October 1986 (age 39) Palmerston North, New Zealand
Field hockey career Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] Weight 72 kg (159 lb) Playing position Midfield Senior career Years Team Central Mysticks National team Years Team Caps 2003– New Zealand 213 (52) Last updated on: 24 April 2014 (national)[2][3]
Medal record Women'sfield hockey Representing New Zealand Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Team 2014 Glasgow Team Champions Trophy 2011 Amstelveen Champions Challenge 2005 Virginia Beach 2009 Cape Town

Kayla Marie WhitelockMNZM (néeSharland, born 30 October 1985) is a New Zealandfield hockey player, and formercaptain of theNew Zealand women's national field hockey team (theBlack Sticks Women).^[4] She has competed in four Olympic Games (2004,2008,2012, and2016), three Commonwealth Games (2006, 2010, and 2014) and two Hockey World Cups (2010 and 2014). She was named on the FIH's All-Star Team in 2010 and was Hockey New Zealand's player of the year in 2012.^[5]

Whitelock was born inPalmerston North, and is ofRangitāne descent.^[6] She marriedCrusaders rugby playerGeorge Whitelock in December 2013.^[7]

Whitelock took up hockey at the age of seven, as her school only played hockey, not her preferred sport, netball.^[5]

In the2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Whitelock was appointed aMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to hockey.^[8]

• 2003 –Champions Challenge, Catania.
• 2004 –Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Auckland.
• 2004 –Olympic Games, Athens.
• 2004 –Champions Trophy, Rosario.
• 2005 –Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach.
• 2006 –Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
• 2006 –World Cup Qualifier, Rome
• 2008 –Olympic Games, Beijing

• Kayla Whitelock at theNew Zealand Olympic Committee
• Kayla Whitelock atOlympedia

• 1985 births
• Living people
• Field hockey players from Palmerston North
• New Zealand female field hockey players
• New Zealand Māori sportspeople
• Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand
• Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
• Commonwealth Games field hockey players for New Zealand
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists in field hockey
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
• Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Rangitāne people
• Dalzell-Whitelock family
• Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
• Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
• 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen

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