Career
He plays for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League. He is trying to secure a spot on the national team in order to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He represents the Uttar Pradesh Wizards in the Hockey India League.
Doerner plays for the Tassie Tigers in the Australian Hockey League.
He signed with and played for the team in 2011, competing in the first found of the 2011 season. Prior to 2011, he played for the Victorian team in the Australian Hockey League.
Earlier, he played professional hockey in the Netherlands. In 2011, he played club hockey in Hobart.
Doerner gave team mate Matthew Swann a yellow headband that Swann wears at every match.
National team
In 2006, he represented Australia at the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia. He competed in the 2007 Champions Trophy competition for Australia. He scored a goal in the bronze medal game against the Netherlands in the country"s 6-1 victory.
In 2009, he represented the country on a tour of Europe.
He was sent off with ten minutes left in the game against the Netherlands as a result of having earned two red cards. Overall, he was the competition"s leading scorer with eight goals.
In the 2-1 victory in the gold medal round against Germany, he scored a goal in the fifty-ninth minute. Because of other commitments, he could not compete at the Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia in May 2011.
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 will be 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.
The competition was his first since returning from time away from the game as a result of injury.
He played for Australia A Squadron In the series, his team beat Argentina 4-2 and he scored a goal in the match.