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Dr. Richard "Ric" (or
"Rick") Ian Charlesworth AM (born
December 6 1952) is a sports and performance consultant and a former
Australian
cricketer and
field hockey player and coach. Born in
Subiaco, Western Australia, he's a
Doctor of Medicine.
Charlesworth attended
Christ Church Grammar School until he graduated in 1969. He then attended The
University of Western Australia.
Cricket
In
1969 he captained the
Western Australian State under 19's cricket team before going on to play A-grade Club cricket for West Perth (1969-70, 1976-82) and
University Cricket Club (1970-76). He played in 47
first-class matches for
Western Australia from
1972 until
1979, making 2,327 runs at an average of 30.22. He was a member of
Sheffield Shield winning teams in 1972-73, 1976-77, 1977-78, and was a squad member in the winning season of 1974-75.
Hockey
Player
Charlesworth came under the Guidance of Ray House at
Christ Church Grammar School, where he was promoted to the School's First XI Hockey team at an early age. He was a member of the PSA Hockey Cup (Now known as the Ray House Hockey Cup) winning Teams of 1966-67. In his final year at Christ Church Grammar School (1969), the team faced off against
Aquinas for the title, led by
David Bell (who would later become a State and National teammate). Aquinas won the match and the 1969 title 2-1.
He played in and captained the State hockey team and then into the national and international level where from about
1978 he was regarded as the world's best hockey player for a decade, playing in and captaining the Australian men's
Field hockey team the
Kookaburras. He was selected to represent Australia in five Olympic hockey teams, 1972, 1976, 1980 (captain) (
Moscow Olympics were boycotted), 1984 (captain), and 1988. He was a member of the national team which competed in various other international tournaments including winning the
World Hockey Cup in London in 1986. He retired from playing after representing Australia at the
1988 Olympics in Seoul. He played 227 games for his country scoring
Charlesworth was inducted into the Australian Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987, the second person to achieve this award.
Charlesworth also won the
Olympians' Medal in 1980 while playing for The
University of Western Australia Hockey Club, an annual award presented to the player judged by umpires to be the Fairest and Best in the Men's First Division Competition in Western Australia. In addition, the female equivalent of this award, an annual award presented to the player judged by umpires to be the Fairest and Best in Women's First Division Competition, is named in Charlesworth's honour, the
Charlesworth Medal.
Coach
After his playing career ended, he went on to be head coach of the Australian Women's hockey team the
Hockeyroos. During this time they won the
Champion's Trophy in
1993 (Amsterdam),
1995 (Mar del Plata),
1997 (Berlin) and
1999 (Brisbane), the
World Hockey Cup in
1994 (Dublin) and
1998 (Netherlands) and were gold medallists in the
Atlanta Olympics in
1996 and
Sydney Olympics in
2000 and
1998 Commonwealth Games in
Kuala Lumpur.
Prior to his recent appointment as technical adviser of the men's and women's
Indian hockey teams, he was the high-performance manager for the
New Zealand cricket team. He was selected to act as an advisor to the newly formed hockey selection committee formed by the Indian Olympic Association.
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Charlesworth has been a mentor coach to several national team coaches with the
Australian Institute of Sport and a performance consultant with the
Fremantle Football Club.
Politics
He was elected as the
Federal Member for Perth in
1983 and was a Member of Parliament for 10 years until
1993 representing the
Australian Labor Party.
Books
He has written three books: "The Coach – Managing for Success", "Staying at the Top" and "Shakespeare the Coach"
Awards
- Western Australian Sportsman of the Year in 1976, 1979 and 1987
- Advance Australia Award in 1984
- Order of Australia in 1987.
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1987
- Hall of Champions, WA 1995
- West Australian Sports Champions of the Year Award – Coach of the Year 1994 – 2000
- Australian Coaching Council Team Coach of the Year 1994, 1996, 1997,1998,1999,2000
- Confederation of Australian Sport Coach of the Year 1996, 1997 and 2000
- Western Australia Citizen of the Year Award 2001
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