Paul Ackerley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paul Ackerley

New Zealand hockey player and coach

Date of Birth: 16-May-1949

Place of Birth: Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 03-May-2011

Profession: field hockey player

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Paul Ackerley

  • Paul Douglas Ackerley (16 May 1949 – 3 May 2011) was a field hockey player, maths teacher and public servant from New Zealand.
  • He played field hockey at right half.
  • He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
  • He was selected for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but most sports in New Zealand boycotted the Moscow games so he did not compete.
  • He had 25 international caps for New Zealand. Ackerley was born in Dunedin but grew up in Ashburton.
  • He graduated from the University of Canterbury, where he played in the Canterbury University hockey club in the late 1960s.
  • He was a secondary school mathematics teacher at Linwood High School, Christchurch and then head of the maths department at Awatapu College, Palmerston North.
  • He transferred to the Education Ministry inspectorate, and then the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, where he was in the group that developed the NCEA.
  • He joined Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) in 2004 as a senior advisor in coaching and volunteers.He coached the national woman's hockey team when they won a bronze at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia, and the Wellington women’s team.Ackerley died in Wellington, New Zealand aged 61 on 3 May 2011 from skin cancer after a short illness.

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