Pietie Coetzee

Pietie Coetzee-Turner

2010 Hockey World Cup
Personal information
Born	Pietie Coetzee (1978-09-02) 2 September 1978 (age 46) Bloemfontein, South Africa
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Playing position	Forward
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2000–2014	South Africa	287	(282)
Coaching career
Years	Team
2017–2019	University of the Witwatersrand
2019–present	University of Massachusetts[1][2]
Medal record Representing  South Africa All-Africa Games 2003 Abuja Team Afro-Asian Games 2003 Hyderabad Team Champions Challenge 2005 Virginia Beach Team

Pietie Coetzee-Turner (née Coetzee; born 2 September 1978) is a field hockey player from South Africa who was born in Bloemfontein. she studied at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, Gauteng, and represented her country at the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics.^[3][4]

A striker, Coetzee played club hockey with Amsterdam, Netherlands in the late 1990s. She made her international senior debut for the South African Women's Team in 1995 against Spain during the Atlanta Challenge Cup in Atlanta, Georgia. She was named the South African Hockey Player of the Year in 1997 and in 2002. Coetzee was the top goal scorer at the 2002 Women's Hockey World Cup held in Perth, Western Australia, where South Africa finished in 13th position. In 2007, she played briefly at NMHC Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Pietie Coetzee became the all-time leading goal scorer in women's international hockey on 21 June 2011 with the third of four goals she scored in a 5–5 draw against the United States in the Champions Challenge in Dublin. It took her to 221 goals, bettering the 20-year-old world record of Russia's Natella Krasnikova.^[5]