Ambrosia Malone

Ambrosia Malone
Personal information
Born	8 January 1998 (age 26); Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland
Playing position	Attacker
Club information
Current club	Hockey Burleigh
National team
Years	Team
2018–	Australia
Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing Australia
FIH Pro League
Oceania Cup
Champions Trophy
Junior World Cup

Ambrosia Malone (born 8 January 1998) is an Australian field hockey player.^[1]

Personal life

Malone was born in Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, and made her senior international hockey debut in a test series against Spain in January 2018.

Eight years earlier Malone represented Australia in football when she was selected in the Football Australia U13 Women's team which competed in the AFC Festival of Football in Vietnam. A natural left-footer, she was the only U12 player selected in the group and held down the left defender position. She was named in the Football Australia All Stars (national) squad each subsequent year and in 2012, at U14, was the youngest player named in the FAU17 Junior World Cup Squad.

Malone graduated from Trinity Lutheran College in 2015. At school Malone was highly regarded for her ambitious attitude and natural ability towards all sports. She achieved School Sport Australia national team selection in both hockey (2013, 2014) and football (soccer) (2015). She also represented Queensland School Sport at the 2010 School Sport Australia Cross Country Nationals (14th place), and competed at numerous Queensland School Sport track and field state championships in sprints, long-distance and hurdles events.

In 2013 (aged U15) she was offered a place at the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) football program, however in accepting she was required to give up all other sporting activities including her school sport. She declined this offer, preferring to play a range of sports (including football) for both her school and association teams, right up until selected for the Hockeyroos. She still enjoys playing football with friends whenever possible. Malone's Year 12 school results (including achieving dux of Physical Education) combined with her outstanding sports record saw her offered direct entry into Griffith University as well as a full scholarship to cover the cost of her studies. She graduated from Griffith University in 2019 with a BA Sport Development.

Career

Junior national team

Malone was part of the Australian women's junior national team 'The Jillaroos' that won bronze at the 2016 Hockey Junior World Cup in Chile.^[2]

Senior national team

In May 2018, Malone was officially raised into the Australian national squad.^[3] She scored her first international goal in May 2018, at the 2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament in New Zealand, in a match against Japan.^[4]

International goals

Goal	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	21 May 2018	Central Otago Sports Club, Cromwell, New Zealand	Japan	1–0	4–1	2018 Tri-Nations Tournament	^[5]
2	23 May 2018		New Zealand	2–0	3–0		^[6]
3	27 May 2018		New Zealand	2–1	4–1		^[7]
4	21 July 2018	Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, London, United Kingdom	Japan	1–0	3–2	2018 World Cup	^[8]
5	13 September 2018	Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan	South Korea	2–1	3–1	2018 SOMPO Cup	^[9]
6	17 November 2018	Wujin Hockey Stadium, Changzhou, China	Argentina	1–0	2–1	2018 Champions Trophy	^[10]
7	9 February 2019	Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart, Australia	China	2–1	4–3	2019 FIH Pro League	^[11]
8	10 May 2019	Spooky Nook Sports, Lancaster, United States	United States	1–0	4–0		^[12]
9	2 June 2019	Wujin Hockey Stadium, Changzhou, China	China	3–1	3–2		^[13]
10	17 August 2019	Oi Hockey Stadium, Tokyo, Japan	China	2–3	2–3	2019 Olympic Test Event	^[14]