Playing Field Hockey in High School
As an 8th grader who has had a great passion for sport of field hockey, it is devastating to know that your school district does not have field hockey as a sport to play in high school. Unfortunately just like any other schools in our school district, our high school doesn’t offer this sport!
I’ve been playing field hockey since the age of five at club level. When I was 7, I played my first championship game at a prestigious CalCup tournament, then it began to take my love for this sport seriously. In the intense finals, hearing crowd cheering our team, my name is something I will never forget. And yes we won championship, and my contribution was highlight of the match!
That’s when I thought I would like to play this game as much as possible. Since then my dream has always been to play field hockey for an elite D1 college team. And in order to achieve this I’m working hard both academically and at sport level. I’m going to need hours and hours of practice all through the year to get better at the game. Right now this is not possible as club has off season between September through January, as that’s the time high school field season is in action in other school districts.
I’ve always completely devoted myself to this sport and as a result was selected into the U-14 National Futures Championship. Only eleven players were selected from California, including me! Playing the National Championship with players from other regions was truly and eye opening experience. I realized that I’ve raise my game to few levels up if I want to compete with peers. Then I know that I had to play for high school in order to compete with others and level up my game.
In the absence of field hockey as a official sport for our high school, I was planning to start a field hockey club at my school. But soon I realized it’s more than difficult to do this as there is not much awareness about this game. Also our plans to start a club in high school hasn’t taken any shape yet since COVID-19 has made impossible for all us to meet in person, interact; and just forget about the play sports.
I still think that I will get a chance to play field hockey in high school, win championship and take my game to whole new level. And I’m determined to make this a reality. I think I just need to be creative in finding the ways to make it happen.
cheers,
Adya