Monmouth's Goalie to play in Ireland

Melissa Katz from Monmouth University is now continuing her field hockey career in Ireland. Katz was a standout for the Monmouth University Hawks. She had an amazing senior year. With the help of her, the Hawks were ranked #20 in the nation at one point. She had tremendous saving ability and is extremely talented. Katz left this past month to play a tournament in Ireland. She is now staying there and playing with the Ireland team. She is there goalie and is getting paid to continue her professional career in another country. Katz hard work, dedication and work ethic makes her such a great contribution to the Ireland team.

Best Coach in NEC

In the Northeast conference I would have to say Rider's head coach Lori Hussong would have to be the best. However, this past season Monmouth University's Head Coach Carli Figlio won coach of the year for the Northeast Conference. My reasoning is ever since Lori Hussong took the head coaching job at Rider she has always had winning records and has always made it to the NEC tournament. This past season they won the NEC conference title and were the #1 seed for regular season game play. Coach Figlio took over the Hawks four years ago and she has done a great job building the program. However, I still say Lori  Hussong has been the best coach for the NEC for the past 8 years and continues to have better teams each year.

Which conference is the strogest?

In Field Hockey the conferences are all pretty much equal except there are a few exceptions.  The patriot league is a weak conference however, American University is the strongest team by far and makes it far in the NCAA tournament each year. The Northeast Conference and the North Pacific Conference is the weakest for Division I field hockey. All the other conferences have had a team move on in the NCAA tournament each year. The strongest conference for field hockey would have to be the Atlantic Coast Conference. University of Maryland College Park has won national champions year in and year out. North Carolina is usually always there rival. There is not one team in the conference that is weak. Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wake Forest are extremely tough teams to beat.

Field Hockey Tricks

This video is very entertaining to watch. It shows the Men's national teams and the tricks they can do. I have always wondered why the women aren't taught some of these certain tricks. Along with this College and National rules are different and some of these tricks are forbidden in college field hockey

Spring Seasons

Now that the Spring seasons are underway it should be interesting to see how all 77 team compete this off-season. The northeast has had numerous snow storms, which will effect the training. All these northeast schools will need someone to plow their fields in order to start practicing. Luckily for down south and california they do not need to worry about this and will most likely have an edge over many teams. Top teams Maryland and Princeton University will both experience different traing as in they are in different climates