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USA Field Hockey
International Games
Olympic Games |
Pan American Games
World Cup |
Champions Trophy
Champion Challenge (
Men |
Women)
Junior World Cup
As the national governing
body for the sport of field hockey in the United States, the U.S. Field Hockey Association
selects and trains teams to participate in the Olympic Games, Pan American Games, World
Cup and other international competitions.
With its
origins in ancient
Greece, the
Olympic Games
are held every four years as a celebration of peace and harmony through sports. In 1998,
International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch declared the sport of
field hockey would remain on the Olympic programme "forever".
The United States also joins
teams from Canada, Central America, South America and the Caribbean in competing for the
continental championship at the
Pan
American Games. The Pan American Games are held every four years in the year
preceding the Olympic Games.
The
World Cup represents the world
championship of the sport of field hockey. The 1998 World Cup in Utrecht, The Netherlands,
was the first to include both men's and women's tournaments concurrently running in the
same host city.
The FIH's premier annual
event, the
Champions Trophy
is a six-team tournaments featuring the world's top-ranked teams competing for the
Champions Trophy title.
The U.S. Field Hockey
Association also trains teams to compete in junior competitions such as the Junior Pan
American Games and Junior World Cup.
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