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Full name | Finn Mcleod Ward | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dunedin, New Zealand | 21 September 2000||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
– | Southern Alpiners | ||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | New Zealand U–21 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
2025– | New Zealand | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Finn Mcleod Ward (born 21 September 2000) [1] is a field hockey player from New Zealand. [2]
Finn Ward grew up in Dunedin, New Zealand. His brothers, Jordan and Patrick also play field hockey. [3]
He is a former student of King's High School. [4]
Ward plays domestically in his home country of New Zealand. [5] In the Premier Hockey League he represents the Southern Alpiners. [6] [7] He also plays in the Ford National Hockey Championship, where he represents his home region of Otago. [8]
Ward made his international debut at under–21 level. He represented the New Zealand U–21 team at the 2019 Sultan of Johor Cup in Johor Bahru. [9]
After four years out of the national set-up, Ward received his first call-up to the Black Sticks in 2025. He made his senior international debut during the FIH Nations Cup in Kuala Lumpur. [10] At the tournament, he won a gold medal and scored his first international goal. [11] He has since been named in the squad for the 2025 Oceania Cup in Darwin. [12] [13]