So I won't disappoint.
Do you know how many people read a Field Hockey media guide? Not that many. BTW UConn Field Hockey is really good and it would be nice to see more people support them. We won national championships in 1981 and 1985 and we continue to be a top 5 program in the country. Our Field Hockey coach is also in her sports hall of fame, just like Calhoun and Auriemma.
I went to get a media guide before I worked a field hockey game because I didn’t know much about the team. (well as much as I felt I should if I was to work a game and talk about them) As I left the communications office in Gampel Pavilion I was followed by Lindsay Leck. A senior who was a really important part of the field hockey team. She is featured on the cover of the media guide I was holding. I was so disappointed when she passed me and didn’t even ask me why I had a field hockey media guide. I bet she noticed, but was way too shocked to say anything to me. Or she was creeped out that some guy was reading a field hockey media guide.
That reminds me I should look through that and come up with more interesting facts for all 3 of my readers.
One of the highlights of UConn’s 3-2 overtime victory over 17th ranked Princeton was that Melissa Gonzalez had her skirt on backwards (or Nike put their swoosh in the wrong spot) and she changed her number from 9 to 30 at half time. The game was really good too. Gonzalez did an amazing job matriculating the ball down the field. Lindsay Leck scored two goals, both times to tie the game at 1-1 and 2-2. After a scoreless first over-time senior Lauren Aird got free and got a great shot on goal that went in and delivered the win for UConn. The emotion of the win was easily seen on the field. Aird jumped up into the air with tons of enthusiasm and the team poored onto the field. It was really a cool thing to witness.
Aird actually scored the game winning overtime goal in 3 straight UConn games. She scored the game winner in the next game except that game didn’t require Overtime. For the season she scored 10 of UConn’s 17 game winners.
Speaking of Field Hockey I need to tell you that the greatest field hockey player never to play college field hockey was Erin Corcoran.
Wynne Hammerman also sarcastically told me that the fact that she won a field hockey state championship at my high school, Stamford High, makes her "such a big deal."
She's right. She is a big deal.
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