3 July 2008 Lincoln graduate wins Olympic selection

Lincoln University applauds the achievement of science graduate and former Sports Scholar Joanne Galletly in winning selection for the Olympic Games as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Hockey Team.

Joanne, a food scientist, graduated Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Food Science in 2003. She held a Lincoln University Sports Scholarship in Hockey from when the scholarships in that code were introduced in 2000 and she was among the first group of Sports Scholars to complete their degrees and graduate.

Joanne, who holds 63 caps and plays as a half, made her debut for New Zealand in 2003. In the National Hockey League she is a member of the Canterbury team. 

Aged 28, Joanne is part of a notable lineage of Lincoln University scholars who have won national honours in hockey. They include Jane Maley, Bachelor of Recreation Management (Sport), who became a Sports Scholar at Lincoln University in the same year as Joanne and first represented New Zealand in 2005, and Meredith Orr, who was the University’s Sports Person of the Year in 2005 and represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

In men’s hockey, BCom (Hons) graduate Hugh Copland, who was a Lincoln University Sports Scholar then a Prime Minister’s Scholar, won selection for the New Zealand Black Sticks in 2005 after representing his country at under-18 and under-21 levels since 2000/2001.

Sixteen players were selected for the women’s hockey team for the Beijing Olympics and the draw has given them pool games against Japan, Germany, Great Britain, USA and Argentina.