NSWIS Hockey Player Brent Livermore
Brent Livermore OAM, (born 5th July 1976) is the most experienced member of the Kookaburras team and a part of the squad's leadership group. He was awarded the Kookaburras Player of the Year in 2001 and was nominated for the prestigious FIH Player of the Year award in 2002 and 2005.
After gaining selection as captain of the Junior World Cup team in 1997, Livermore relocated to Perth to train at the Australian Institute of Sport. In 1997 Australia won the Junior World Cup and he was selected as captain of the World Team. In the same year Livermore played his first International Senior Cap in Pakistan in front of 50,000 strong supporters.
At the 2000 Olympic Games the Kookaburras won a bronze medal but four years later Livermore and his team were outstanding in winning gold at the Olympic Games in Athens.
Livermore has been an NSWIS Scholarship holder with the Hockey Program from the inception of NSWIS in 1996 and remains a scholarship holder. He won the NSWIS Team Athlete of the Year (Large Teams) in 2004 and was a finalist for the same award in 2006. He was also a finalist for the 2006 NSWIS Male Athlete of the Year.