The Kookaburras will proudly showcase ‘Kookaburra’ on their front-of-shirt for the following three years after Hockey Australia secured a long-term main partnership with considered one of hockey’s most iconic manufacturers.
The three-year settlement renews considered one of Australian sport’s loveliest, long-standing partnerships that extends again 30 years, when Kookaburra Sport initially partnered with Hockey Australia to call the boys’s nationwide crew after Australia’s iconic native hen.
In addition to changing into the Official Entrance-of-Shirt Sponsor for Australia’s males’s nationwide hockey crew the Kookaburras, Kookaburra Sport will even characteristic on the Hockeyroos entrance of skort and change into the Unique Ball Companion for Hockey Australia and its suite of Nationwide Championships and the Hockey One League.
Kookaburra Sport’s dedication to the neighborhood sport and its subsequent alignment with Hockey Australia’s key growth pathway, the Nationwide Championships and Hookin2Hockey ensures the partnership shall be felt throughout all sides of the game.
Hockey Australia CEO David Pryles mentioned the announcement marks an iconic second within the sport’s historical past.
“This announcement is an extremely thrilling second for our sport. It’s improbable to align the Kookaburras, who’re considered one of Australia’s proudest nationwide groups with Kookaburra Sport who’re a proud Australian-owned firm. Each manufacturers have an enduring legacy synonymous with Australian sport over many a long time and align by shared values, a mutual ardour for hockey and the understanding of the significance of neighborhood in our sport.”
“I’m very a lot wanting ahead to working with Kookaburra Sport and we’re excited by the chance for each events to deepen connections with the neighborhood from our Hookin2Hockey clinics, by the grassroots, all the best way as much as our elite Excessive-Efficiency programme.”
Brett Elliot, Group Managing Director at Kookaburra Sport echoed Pryle’s sentiment, including:
“Kookaburra Sport is proud to be related to one of the crucial profitable sporting our bodies and groups this nation has produced. As a model we’ve got had a long-standing relationship with each the game itself and Hockey Australia that spans greater than 30 years.
“Collectively we share model synergies and a partnership that highlights the significance of the hockey neighborhood right here in Australia from the elite degree to grassroots. As a fifth era Australian owned and operated household enterprise that has been a part of the material of Australian sport since 1890, right this moment represents a proud second for Kookaburra Sport, Hockey Australia, and the sport itself.”
As each squads put together to fly out for the remaining matches of Season 5 of the FIH Professional League in Europe, Kookaburra Sport ambassador Tom Craig mentioned it’s a proud second to be representing Kookaburra Sport.
“It’s been fairly nicely publicised, the struggles we’ve needed to get a front-of-shirt sponsor and for a crew that’s as proud because the Kookaburras, who’ve a protracted and famed custom, we’re stoked to have Kookaburra Sport backing us and even higher that it’s a model that’s enormous in Australian sport and a giant supporter of Australian sport,” Tom mentioned.
Kookaburras Captain Aran Zalewski added, “It’s nice, we’re actually pleased to have Kookaburra Sport on our enjoying uniform and partnering with them is thrilling for us. It’s such a pure match, to have the Kookaburras sponsored by Kookaburra Sport as our main sponsor and we’re very excited to be representing them.”
ABOUT KOOKABURRA SPORT
Established in Melbourne in 1890 by founder Alfred Grace Thompson, Kookaburra Sport stays a proud sports activities gear producer specialising in area hockey, cricket balls and AFL footballs in addition to gear, bespoke crew put on, clothes and footwear. Kookaburra hockey balls have been used at each Olympic Video games since 1956 and right this moment, the Kookaburra Dimple Elite is the one hockey ball with International Approval from the Worldwide Hockey Federation.
After 130 years Kookaburra Sport stays a 100% Australian family-owned enterprise. Fourth and fifth-generation members of the Thompson household proceed to work at Head Workplace in Melbourne, with extra places of work in India, New Zealand, and the UK, and an company in South Africa, using over 250 folks globally.
