Australians Jamie Dwyer and Matthew Swann were named FIH Players of the year (2011) for men and juniors respectively on Saturday.
The trophies were presented to them by FIH President Leandro Negre in Auckland where the Champions Trophy final round matches will be played on Sunday. It is Dwyer's fifth Player-of-the-Year Award, the earlier ones being in 2004, 2007, 2009, and 2010.
Nominations were made by a panel of selected coaches from some of the best international teams, including Ric Charlesworth (Australia), Markus Weise (Germany), Jason Lee (England & Great Britain), Pablo Lombi (Argentina), Shane McLeod (New Zealand) and Colin Batch (Belgium).
