| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 November 2005 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | HC Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Australia U–21 | 9 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samantha Love (born 29 November 2005) [1] is a field hockey player from Australia. [2]
She has been listed as one of the 'futures' of Australian hockey. [3]
Love is a current scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport. [4]
She is a former student of St Catherine's School. [5]
In Hockey Australia's premier domestic league, the One Active Hockey One, Love represents HC Melbourne. [6] [7]
She also competes in the Hockey Victoria Premier League, where she represents Hawthorn Hockey Club. [8] [9] She formerly represented MCC Hockey Club. [10]
Love made her debut for the Australian U–21 side, the Jillaroos, in 2023. She made her first international appearances during a test–series against Japan in the Gold Coast. [11]
In 2025 she was named in the squad for the Junior Oceania Cup in Auckland, where she won a gold medal. [11] She also appeared in a test series against India in Canberra. [12] [13] She has most recently been named in the squad for the 2025 FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago. [2]
