More Field Hockey Hopes (and reflections too)!

 


So it was the end of the season banquet for the Collingswood HS Field Hockey Team on 12/15/2021.  Alexa started playing Field Hockey in 5th grade, at Oaklyn, on the last team Oaklyn ever had.  That was the 2013-2014 season.  And we really started watching the Colls FH Team when as Ashley played for them, in HS, starting with her 9th grade year which was 2009-2010.  So it's been 14 seasons of involvement for our family in Colls FH.  Four years watching Ashley, then watching Alexa at OPS, CMS, and CHS and, for the past two years, following the team with Anna as the Manager.  Anna was honored, on the 349th day of 2021, for being a four-year Manager, the last two years solo.  So, I have More Field Hockey Hopes (since I had them on 10/2 when we watched Alexa with the Penn Club Team) and I have reflections too!  14 years of amazing memories, 14 years of sisterhood, 14 years of being impressed with how the FH players always seem to be athletes, but also involved in the arts and academics (there is that AAA again!)  I can't say we're going to miss Colls HS FH, because we will always continue to be fans and to support the team.  But as the last familial connection is graduating this year..... you know how I am about lasts.... I have hopes for the future for them and all of their players.

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