Wikipedia / Rob Short
Wikipedia / Rob Short
Rob ("Shorty") Short (born August 11, 1972 in Maidstone, England) is a Canadian field hockey player.
Career
Short played his first international senior tournament in 1995, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Highlights include the 1998 World Cup in the Netherlands where the Canadian team finished 8th, with Short scoring 4 goals in the 7 games. In 2000 he competed with the national hockey team of Canada at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, where the team finished 10th. A recent win (over Argentina in strokes) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Pan American Games meant Rob competed in his second Olympic Games in Beijing in the summer of 2008.
Short has played club hockey at the highest level in the Netherlands since 1999; 3 years with HC Rotterdam, 2 years at Laren, and is currently playing his 9th year with HGC. Last year with HGC, he won the EHL (Euro Hockey League) and took home the MVP of the European competition and with it 5000 Euro.
In addition to playing field hockey, Short is also a business owner with Voodoo America and his academy company Rob Short Coaching.
Short currently lives with his family in North Vancouver, British Columbia. His partner is Rachel Norwood and they have two boys Brek and Kaeden (Kk) Norwood-Short.
International Senior Competitions
1995 Pan American Games, Mar del Plata (2nd)
1996 Olympic Qualifier, Barcelona (6th)
1996 World Cup Preliminary, Sardinia (2nd)
1997 World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (5th)
1998 World Cup, Utrecht (8th)
1998 Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur (not ranked)
1999 Pan American Games, Winnipeg (1st)
2000 Americas Cup, Cuba (2nd)
2000 Olympic Games, Sydney (10th)
2001 World Cup Qualifier, Edinburgh (8th)
2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester (6th)
2003 Pan American Games, Santo Domingo (2nd)
2004 Olympic Qualifier, Madrid (11th)
2004 Pan Am Cup, London (2nd)
2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne (9th)
2006 World Cup Qualifier, Changzou City (10th)
2007 Pan American Games, Rio (1st)
2008 Olympic Games, Beijing (10th)
2009 Pan American Cup, Santiago (1st)
2010 Commonwealth Games, India (7th)
2010 World Cup, Delhi (11th)
2011 Pan American Games, Guadalajara, Mexico (2nd)
Education
Rob graduated from UVIC (University of Victoria) with a Bachelor's Degree in Geography. He has also since residing in Europe achieved a diploma at BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology) in Web Technologies. Rob looks forward to coaching hockey both Internationally and at the club level in the future and to progress in that career in 2011 he completed a Masters in International Coaching at the Johan Cruyff Institute in Sport at Amsterdam.
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