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Meg Pearce

Australian field hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ107071547
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Meg Pearce (born 1 July 1994) is an Australian field hockey player, who plays as a defender and midfielder.

Personal life

Meg Pearce grew up in Melbourne, Victoria. Her father participates in Ironman events, and her mother runs in marathons. Following after her father and sister, both hockey players, she started playing hockey when six years old, at the Doncaster Hockey Club, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. After finishing secondary school, she studied arts at university, and began working as a personal trainer, before completing a double degree in commerce and nutrition. She played on the Under-21 Victorian state team in 2014 and 2015, and played with the Victorian Vipers, before moving to Brisbane. She joined Brisbane Blaze for the 2019 season. She later relocated to Perth, working in marketing for a financial services firm.

She is a scholarship holder at the Victorian Institute of Sport, as well as a member of Hockey Queensland's High Performance Squad.

Career

Domestic league

From 2013 to 2018, Pearce was a member of the Victorian Vipers in the Australian Hockey League (AHL).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Meg Pearce” is australian field hockey player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pearce, Australian and field, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2014, 2015, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-07-01. For this dossier, Pearce, Australian and field is the immediate research focus.
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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 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107071547. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2014, 2015 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Meg Pearce” 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.