Career
From the tiny wheatbelt town of Moulyinning, her career spanned 50 years as a player, coach, selector and administrator in several Australian states as well as national duties. As a player, 1936 was May Campbell"s best year: on the Australian tour of the United States and Canada she was Australia"s highest goalscorer, she also toured England and New Zealand, and managed a haul of 100 goals in club, national and international matches. In 1938, she scored 20 of Washington"s 30 goals in the National Championships.
Campbell played local hockey with Surf Hockey Club (now Young Men’s Christian Association Coastal City Hockey Club) with sisters Jean Wynne, (also played for Australia from 1946 to 1953), Morna Hyde (played for Australia in the late 1940s) and Caroline "Tib" Ash.
May, Jean and Norma all captained the Australian Women"s hockey team and the state team at various times and Tib also played at State and national levels. She was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Champions in 1986.
The "May Campbell Service to Sport Award" is given annually to a sports administrator who has displayed outstanding service to sport in the state. By coincidence, the four hockey playing Pearce sisters shared the same surname as the five Anglo-Indian hockey playing brothers, Cec, Mel, Eric, Gordon and Julian Pearce.
John Hyde, Modern Language Association for Perth, is Morna Pearce"s son and hence May"s nephew.