It's a childhood dream that took on even greater focus when the Wollongong hockey talent missed the final team for Rio de Janeiro despite making his international debut for the Kookaburras in 2014.

From there, Ogilvie's eyes were fixated on Tokyo 2020. He may have had to wait an extra year, but finally the 27-year-old is on his way to the Olympics.

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"I followed my whole family into hockey," Ogilvie said. "My oldest brother started when he was in high school, the rest of us followed.

"Having three of my siblings making the Australian indoor team and my sister making the Hockeyroos, they're pretty good role models to look up to.

"It's pretty exciting to be picked. Obviously it's been a little bit dragged out which dragged the nerves out for a whole extra year. It's good to get announced and it's exciting to be named in the team."

Ogilvie was named on Monday in the Kookaburras' final Olympic team, a squad that features Albion Park star Blake Govers and will be led by co-captains Eddie Ockenden and Aran Zalewski.

The Hockeyroos were also announced, with Gerringong's Grace Stewart named to contest her second Games.

While Govers lined up in Rio, Tokyo will mark Ogilvie's first Olympic Games.

The expectations will be high for the Kookaburras, the side currently ranked No.1 in the world and claiming the 2019 FIH Pro League before coronavirus shut down international sport last year.

It's an arena the Australian men have frequently struggled to live up to the hype, but the midfielder is confident this year will be different.

"Every Olympics the Kookaburras go trying to win gold," Ogilvie said. "That's all we're aiming for. It's going to be hard, but we'll be disappointed if we don't come away with gold.

"We haven't played the Europeans in a long time, usually they're our main competition, and then we have teams like India and Argentina that we haven't played for 18 months now.

"All we can do is train hard and play hard against New Zealand when we play them. That will be a good lead in and then we'll see how we go for our first game in Tokyo against Japan."

The Kookaburras finished sixth in Rio, the team coming unstuck with two losses in the group stages.

That led to a quarter-final clash with the Netherlands, the Dutch prevailing 4-0.

Given the importance of the pool stages, Australian coach Colin Batch said the squad is focused on hitting the ground running in their opening matches, starting with Japan on July 24.

"Being at our best when we need to be is what it's all about," Batch said.

"Our first aim is to qualify for the quarter finals and we cannot underestimate that.

"We come up against a determined host country first up who will be nicely acclimatised and very eager to perform well in front of their home crowd, so each match generates a different set of circumstances. We're not looking too far past that first match against Japan."