Georgia Wilson

Fast Facts

Sport: Hockey
Event: Women's
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1996
State Born: WA

About Georgia

Whilst growing up in Western Australia, Georgia Wilson began playing hockey at the age of four, and showed an immediate aptitude for the sport. Her talent was quickly recognised and before long she received a Western Australian Institute of Sport scholarship.

By 20, she had a gold medal around her neck from the 2016 Junior Oceania Cup. The win for Australia qualified the team for the Junior World Cup later that year. Georgia earned her selection into the World Cup team, but suffered a torn hamstring and spent the next four months recovering.

Her resilience paid off in June 2017 in Hilversum, The Netherlands, when she made her Hockeyroos debut in a two-test series against the Dutch. As a result she was named the Rechelle Hawkes Youth Player of the Year at Hockey WA’s 2017 season annual dinner.

Georgia missed out on the 2018 Commonwealth Games after a lengthy time on the sidelines following a torn ACL, and the full knee reconstruction that followed - 14 months of rehabilitation in total which impacted her mentally, causing Georgia to suffer from depression.

Although these challenges were some of the hardest she’d encountered in her young career, Georgia’s resilience sparked an extremely rewarding and positive reaction. Her stint out of the game allowed her to travel to the north region of Western Australia and coach athletes as part of an initiative with FMG Pilbara Community Indigenous Hockey Program. It was there she came up with the idea of Activ8.

Activ8 Hockey has become one of Perth’s leading school holiday hockey programs, designed - for the players, by the players: delivering young athletes access to top level training from the country's best players.

Georgia loves sharing her story and experiences to schools, clubs and businesses, and she is now an ambassador for the youth mental health organisation, Zero2Hero, as well as a Lifeline Community Custodian. During her time away from the game she also completed her Bachelor of Science in Human Biology and Marketing at the University of Western Australia.

She returned to playing in 2019 and quickly earned a silver medal in the FIH Hockey Pro-League. As part of the Hockeyroos squad that travelled to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, an undefeated group stage for Australia was followed up by a tense quarter-final loss against India, which ended 1-0.