Education
He attended Pine Rivers State High School.
He attended Pine Rivers State High School.
He played club hockey for Street Andrew"son De Young is from Bray Park, Queensland. He moved to Perth, Western Australia in order to be more available to the national team
De Young is a midfielder.
In 2002, he played for the Street Andrew"s club after not having played for the club in two years. He was the first player from Street Andrew"s to make Australia"s senior national team
In 2010, he played in the final game of the season for his state team in the Australian Hockey League. National team
De Young made his senior national team debut in 2001.
In 2006, he represented Australia at the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia.
He competed in the 2007 Champions Trophy competition for Australia. In May 2011, he played in the Azlan Shah Cup for Australia. The Cup featured teams from Pakistan, Malaysia, India, South of Korea, Britain and New Zealand.
In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian 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.
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. He played for the Australian A team in their 3-1 loss to the Kookaburras in the first round of the competition.
He scored his team"s only goal.
At the 2014 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, De Young became just the fourth man to make 300 national team appearances for Australia (the other three being Jay Stacy, Brent Livermore and Jamie Dwyer).
In 2009, he was a member of the national team during a five-game test series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia against Malaysia. He was a member of the national team in 2010. That year, he was a member of the team that finished first at the Hockey Champions Trophy.