About
About Field Hockey
One of the world’s most popular games, field hockey is also one of the world’s oldest competitive team sports. Evidence of games played with a ball and stick date back over 4,000 years to the Nile Valley Egypt, and similar games were played by civilizations ranging from the Greeks and Romans to the Ethiopians and Aztecs.
The modern game of field hockey evolved in England during the 19th century and led to the creation of the sport’s international federation, the Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) in 1924. After Constance Applebee introduced the sport to the United States in 1901, the United States Field Hockey Association (USFHA) was formed in 1922.
The Olympic Games included men’s field hockey on the official program for the first time in 1908, and women’s field hockey earned a spot on the program in 1980.
Hockey’s most coveted international prize, the World Cup is held every four years with 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams competing for the title of World Champion. The first men’s World Cup was played in 1971 with the women’s event added in 1974.
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Norwin 2011 Coaching Staff
Laura Peery, Head Coach
Coach Peery graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 2009, where she was a starting forward for all four years of her years on the varsity field hockey team. Peery was also captain of the women’s lacrosse team during her junior and senior years, the first two years W&J fielded a team. Peery majored in child development and education and is certified to teach elementary students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Growing up the North Hills, where she attended North Allegheny High School, Peery played both field hockey and lacrosse. Her coaching experience includes many summer field hockey camps around the Pittsburgh area including a summer rec program for fourth through twelfth graders at Pine Richland High School.
Donna Duncan, Assistant Coach
Coach Duncan has been a teacher at Norwin for six years and has been involved with soccer in our area for many years.
Lindsay Kurahara, Assistant Coach
Coach K graduated from Mount Holyoke College in May of 2007. She was a starting defender for all four years on the varsity field hockey team, and was nominated captain her senior year. Coach K graduated with a degree in Psychology and Education and, since graduating, has worked as a research assistant in a psychiatric hospital and as a classroom behavioral specialist with children of all ages. Coach K was born and raised in New England and just recently moved to the Pittsburgh area. This was Coach K’s first coaching experience and she was honored to be a part of the Norwin Field Hockey team!
Go Knights!