Orchard was born in July 1986 in Muswellbrook, New South Wales.[2][3][4] His hobbies include playing golf and playing his guitar.[2] He took up hockey at the age of 11. He is married to Airlie Ogilvie, formerly of the Hockeyroos.[5]
Field hockey
Orchard plays for New South Wales in the Australian Hockey League.[4] He played in a June 2010 game for the New South Wales against the Tassie Tigers that New South Wales won 6–3. He scored a goal in the game.[6]
National team
Orchard is a member of the Kookaburras. In January 2008, he made his senior national team debut at the Five Nations men's hockey tournament in South Africa.[2][7][8] He represented Australia at the 2009 Champions Trophy, where his team earned a gold medal.[2] New national team coach Ric Charlesworth named him, a returning member, alongside fourteen total new players who had few than 10 national team caps to the squad before in April 2009 in a bid to ready the team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[9] In 2010, he won a gold medal at the World Cup.[2] He represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In the gold medal match against India that Australia won 8–0, he scored a goal.[2][10] In May 2011, he played in the Azlan Shah Cup for Australia. The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Britain and New Zealand.[11] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer OlympicsAustralian men's national training squad. This squad was narrowed in June 2012. He trained with the team from 18 January to mid-March in Perth, Western Australia.[12][13][14] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina.[3] He played for the Kookoaburras against Argentina in the second game of the series where his team won 3–1. He scored a goal for his team.[15] In another game against Argentina at the same competition, his team won 4-0 and he scored a goal.[16] He was selected to play for Australia in the 2012 Summer Olympics, scoring two goals, including one in the bronze medal match where Australia beat Great Britain 3–1.[17][18]
Recognition
In 2010, Orchard earned the Kookaburra's 2010 Player of the Year award, an award he shared with Eddie Ockenden.[4]
^"FOR THE RECORD". The Australian. Sydney, Australia. 15 December 2011. p. 35. AUS_T-20111215-1-035-447690. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
^"SCOREBOARD". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. 15 December 2011. p. 116. DTM_T-20111215-1-116-447684. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
^"Kookaburras soar past Argentina". Australia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Australian Associated Press. 11 February 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.