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| Born | 20 July 2004 Goulburn, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | NSW Pride | |||||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Australia U–21 | 31 | (15) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Makayla Jones (born 20 July 2004) [1] is a field hockey player from Australia. [2] [3]
Jones was raised in Goulburn, New South Wales. [4]
She is a scholarship holder at the NSW Institute of Sport. [5]
In Hockey Australia's premier domestic league, the One Active Hockey One, Jones represents the NSW Pride. [6] [7] In her debut season in 2022, she helped the side to a gold medal. [6]
Jones made her debut for the Australian U–21 side, the Jillaroos, in 2022. [8] She made her first international appearances during the Junior Oceania Cup in Canberra, where she won a gold medal. [9] [10]
Throughout 2023, Jones continued to represent the national junior squad. She was a member of the squad for a test series against Japan in the Gold Coast, followed by the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago, where the team finished in fifth place. [8]
In 2025 she was named in the squad for the Junior Oceania Cup in Auckland, where she won a gold medal. [8] [11] She also appeared in seven matches during a tour of Europe, as well as in a test series against India in Canberra. [12] She most recently represented the squad at her second FIH Junior World Cup, also held in Santiago. [2]
