Daphne Pirie
Daphne Pirie, MBE OA was a nationally ranked Australian athlete, hockey player, golfer and is currently a sports administrator and world-ranked Masters Athlete.
In 1989, Pirie was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to Hockey. She was the first female vice-president of the Queensland Olympic Council and, in 2011, she received the International Olympic Committee Women and Sport trophy for Oceania.
In 2012, Pirie was named a Queensland Great on Queensland Day and received an Order of Australia for her services to sports administration, hockey and as an advocate for women and girls in sport.
Pirie was the founding president for Womensport Queensland and is an inductee in both the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame and Hockey Queensland Hall of Fame. She holds life memberships with Hockey Australia, Women's Hockey Australia and Hockey Queensland and is a board member of the Queensland Academy of Sport and President of the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame.
