Kaitlin Nobbs


Kaitlin Nobbs is an Australian field hockey player. She has played for the Australian national team, the Hockeyroos.

Early life

Nobbs is the daughter of Australian field hockey players Michael Nobbs and Lee Capes. Her father played in the 1984 Summer Olympics and coached the Indian men's hockey team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Her mother won a gold medal in field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Nobbs has an older sister, Jaimee, who is a competitive figure skater. Nobbs was born in Western Australia and lived there until age 14. She then moved to Newington, New South Wales.
Nobbs graduated from Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in 2015. She then began attending Curtin University where she studied nursing.

Career

In 2014, Nobbs played for her first professional hockey team, the New South Wales Arrows, part of the Australian Hockey League.
Nobbs received a scholarship to train alongside the national senior team ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, although she was not a full member of the senior team. Nobbs was selected to the 2016 Junior World Cup team. Nobbs won a bronze medal as part of the team. Also in 2016, Nobbs was named to the senior Australian women's national field hockey team, the Hockeyroos, for the first time. Nobbs was selected to replace Anna Flanagan ahead of a four-team tournament in Japan. Nobbs was again part of the Australian team when they won bronze at the 2017 Hawkes Bay tournament.
Nobbs won the 2015 Jeanette Buckham Award for Outstanding Individual Sportswoman and was named 2016 Burwood's Sportsperson of the Year.