It was solely a few days in the past when USA Subject Hockey dropped the senior ladies’s nationwide workforce participant pool, which is 37 members sturdy. The pool of gamers contains members of final 12 months’s Olympic workforce, collegiate stars, and teenage star Reese D’Ariano.
It was due to this fact a reasonably numerous bunch of gamers that head coach David Passmore chosen for the pool of gamers that he will likely be taking to the FIH Nations Cup event in Chile.
However what’s attention-grabbing listed here are the gamers that aren’t going to the Chile event looking for profitable their manner again into the FIH Professional League. U.S. captain Ashley Hoffman just isn’t on the touring roster. Neither is goalkeeper Kelsey Bing, or key scorers Megan Valzonis or Abigail Tamer.
As an alternative, this workforce will likely be led on the sector by co-captains Amanda Golini and Alexandra Hammel. Attacking abilities Beth Yeager and Ashley Sessa will likely be main off the entrance, and Leah Crouse and Meredith Sholder will likely be counted on within the rearguard.
What I discover attention-grabbing are among the youthful gamers who will likely be collaborating of their first worldwide event, comparable to Katie Dixon, Jans Croon, and dragflick specialist Caroline Ramsey.
It’s an attention-grabbing evolution of the roster, however I feel it’s additionally a delicate message. That message is that the U.S. workforce has depth, and that the teaching workers believes it may beat the sector of seven different sides (together with contenders like New Zealand and India) with out stocking the roster with Olympic veterans.
I feel a few individuals it is advisable control for this workforce are Sanne Caarls and Jans Croon. Each gamers have been born within the Netherlands. Heck, Caarls was one a participant for Holland’s nationwide workforce earlier than making her one lifetime switch to the U.S. nationwide workforce. Croon, then again, moved together with her household to the U.S. on the age of 12 and located the grownup hockey league at Moorpark, Calif.
It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how this group of 20 gamers develops within the month earlier than the opening hitback of the FIH Nations Cup.
