Meredith Dawn Orr is a field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 midfielder from New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 in Athens, Greece. There she finished in sixth place with the Women's National Team. Orr made her international senior debut for the Black Sticks in 2001 against Korea in Wellington.

Orr attended Diocesan School for Girls

Diocesan School for Girls (Auckland)

Diocesan School for Girls is a private girls' school in Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand. It is consistently a top-achieving school nationally. The school is Anglican-based and was established in 1903. It caters to international students and has accommodation for 35 boarders at Innes House...

 in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

 and then attended Massey University to complete her business degree. In 2006 Orr ruptured her ACL but returned to hockey seven months later to Captain the Canterbury Cats hockey team in the New Zealand Hockey League. In a continual effort to keep developing her game, Orr played for the NSW Arrows team in the 2007 Australian Hockey League.

Orr has over 110 caps for New Zealand. She was in the Black Sticks side which won the Oceania Cup

Oceania Cup

The Oceania Cup is an international men's and women's field hockey competition organised by Oceania Hockey Federation . It is held every two years to determine which teams will receive an automatic berth to the Hockey World Cup and Summer Olympic Games....

 in Queensland, Australia in September 2007 beating Australia in the final to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. She was included in the squad from which the team to represent New Zealand at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was chosen.

International Competitions

• 2001 – Champions Trophy
  2001 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
  The 9th edition of the Women's Champions Trophy took place in the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, just like a year before, but this time the tournament ran from Saturday August 18 to Sunday August 26, 2001...
  
  , Amstelveen
• 2003 – Champions Challenge, Catania
• 2004 – Olympic Qualifier
  2004 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier
  The fifth Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 19 March until 28 March 2004. Ten nations took part, and they were divided into two groups of five...
  
  , Auckland
• 2004 – Olympic Games, Athens
• 2004 – Champions Trophy
  2004 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
  The 12th edition of the annual Women's Champions Trophy took place from Saturday November 6 until Sunday November 14, 2004 at the Country Jockey Club de Rosario in Rosario, Argentina...
  
  , Rosario
• 2005 – Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach