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Maddison Smith

Australian field hockey player (2000-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ57585171 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maddison Smith (born 17 March 2000) is a field hockey player from Australia.

Personal life

Maddison Smith was born and raised in Albion Park, New South Wales.

Career

Domestic league

In Hockey Australia's domestic league, the Sultana Bran Hockey One, Smith captains the NSW Pride.

Under–18

Smith made her junior international debut in 2018 during a qualification tournament for the Youth Olympic Games in Port Moresby. She followed this up with an appearance at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires where she was a member of the Australian Hockey5s team that finished fifth in the girls' tournament.

Hockeyroos

In 2023, Smith made her Hockeyroos debut during season three of the FIH Pro League. She was later named in the National Development Squad.

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The public source identifies “Maddison Smith” as australian field hockey player (2000-). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Maddison, Smith and Australian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2018, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-03-17. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Maddison, Smith and Australian providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q57585171. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2018 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maddison Smith” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.