Tim Deavin
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Tim Deavin (born 27 July 1984) is an Australian field hockey player. He plays for the Kookaburras, the Australian men's Hockey Team. He first played for the Australian senior national team in 2010.

Personal
Deavin is from Tasmania. He attended Scotch Oakburn College. In 2010, he moved to Perth, Western Australia, to join the Kookaburras.
In 2014, Deavin was barred from playing with his team, Tamar Churinga, in Tasmania's Greater Northern Hockey League due to complaints about his professional performance.
Deavin defied his ban a few weeks later when he played against the Queechy Penguins.

Field hockey
Deavin plays at the back as a defender, but can and has played centre-half, midfield and striker for the Kookaburras.

Club hockey
Tim Started his playing career playing at Scotch Oakburn College and Tamar Churinga Hockey Club in Launceston. He then moved to Hobart where he occasionally plays for the Derwent Strikers in the Southern Men's Hockey League. In 2008 and 2009 he won the league's men's best and fairest hockey award. In 2010, he was with the team, playing for them in the grand final.
During the 2005/06 season, Deavin was part of Doncaster's team in the English National League, earning the title of Player of the League. He later played in New Zealand's national league, representing Southern (Otago) in 2006 and Midlands in 2012 and 2014, where he achieved the league's runner-up status and was named MVP of the tournament. In 2013, Deavin competed for the Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club in the Malaysian National League, leading the team to a championship victory. Currently, he serves as the player-coach for the Premier 1 Men's team at the Fremantle Cockburn Hockey Club.

State team
Deavin plays for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League(2014 Champions). He was with the team in 2008, 2010 and 2011. He had a severe foot injury in 2011 that kept him away from Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League.

National team
Deavin made his national team debut in 2010. In 2010 and 2011, he won a gold medal at the Champions Trophys in Germany and New Zealand. He Played in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia in 2010 (3rd), 2011 (1st) and 2013 (1st) where he was named in the Azlan Shah Cup Eleven. In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad. In February 2012 he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina, where Australia won.

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1984 births
Living people
Australian male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania
Sportsmen from Tasmania