Rider University's Virginia Egusquiza

Head Coach Lori Hussong recruited Virgina four years ago, this player

Virginia Egusquiza

has won Northeast Conference player of the year for the past two seasons. Sophomore year and currently her Junior she received this award. She still has one more season left with the Broncos. This past season Lori Hussong recruited Virgina's cousin to come play for the Broncos. This freshman received Rookie of the year award for the Northeast conference. These two girls together make the Rider University team very dangerous. It will be interesting to see how the off season goes as well as there upcoming season in Fall 2011.

New Head Coach - Delaware

Rolf Van de Kerkof

University of Delaware's Field Hockey Head Coach Carol Miller announced her retirement after this past season. The new coach that is now replacing her is Coach Rolf van de Kerkof he was previously the Head Coach for Michigan State University. A former High School field hockey teammate of mine, Tory Sharpless plays for the University of Delaware. She told me that she is extremely excited about this new coach. Old coach Carol Miller would play girls in one game then the very next game sit them out for no reason. The changes of coaches for the Delaware field hockey team is going to put the team back on track with hopefully a winning record. This Coach has a great deal of experience. He brought Michigan State to the NCAA final four and lost to Virgina. My old teammate Tory Sharpless is very excited to have him as a coach and see what he can bring to Delaware.

Monmouth Field Hockey

The Monmouth University Field Hockey team had a tough loss in the NEC Championship game to Rider University. The team had its best team it had in years. This was the first year that Monmouth gained votes to be a top 20 team in the country. Next year this team looks extremely bright too. There were two freshman starters that contributed a lot. I think Monmouth is going to surprise many other top Division I schools next year. I think they also have an extremely high chance of going to the NCAA tournament for the first time.