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G J Payne
Image Descriptions: Joy Payne (nee Hillier) was born on 24 April 1938 and moved to Orange in 1940, where she attended Orange Rural School and Orange High School. Joy played her early hocky for Orange 'Midgets' who won the First Grade competition in 1952 over Amazons. Joy moved to Sydney in 1953 and completed high school at Parramatta High School. She gained her teaching qualification at Bathurst Teachers College and continued to teach until her retirement in 1993.
A brilliant athlete at school, Joy had to choose between the two sports and luckily for hockey, her decision went that way and she eventually rose to be captain of New South Wales and vice-captain of Australia. Playing first grade hockey from the age of 14 Joy was only 20 when she won her first Australian honours to represent her country at the World Championships in Amsterdam in 1959.
Her first State representation was in 1958 after just one year in the Sydney grade competition, and she was to retain her State position until 1975, playing in her beloved position on the right wing. Joy captained New South Wales in 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1975. She was selected in the All Australian Team in 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1964 to 1968. In 1959 she toured England and Holland with the Australian team, and in 1963, after the Australian tour of the USA and Canada, Joy was named in the World XI by the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations at Towson, Maryland.
In 1963, in a match played in scorching heat in Maryland, Australia trailed Germany by 1-0 with four minutes to play, when Joy slammed in the equaliser and then stunned the Germans with one minute to play when she belted in the winning goal for Australia.
Joy was an automatic selection in the Australian team for its tour of Germany in 1967 and England and South Africa in 1969, but had to declare herself unavailable for these tours. Joy retired from A grade hockey in 1975 after a career spanning over 23 years in top grade hockey and more than 500 matches to her credit. In 1999 Joy and husband John retired to Epping in NSW.
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