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US Field Hockey Names Men’s Pan American Games Team

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – U.S. Field Hockey has announced the 16-member men’s team to compete for the United States at the XIV Pan American Games, Aug. 2-13, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Selections to the team are subject to approval by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

      Head coach Shiv Jagday’s U.S. roster features five returning members from the 1999 Pan American Games including Jang Badhesha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rinku Bhamber (Simi Valley, Calif.), Patrick Cota (Camarillo, Calif.), Shawn Hindy (Westlake Village, Calif.) and Shawn Nakamura (Camarillo, Calif.). Badhesha. Bhamber, Cota and Nakamura made their U.S. senior team debuts at the 1999 Games, while Hindy led the team in scoring at the tournament with 3 goals. The U.S. placed 5^th at the 1999 Games. Since that time, Hindy was named U.S. Field Hockey’s Athlete of the Year in 2000 and 2002 while Nakamura earned the honor in 1999 and 2001.

      In addition to the U.S. veterans, the team features some of U.S. Field Hockey’s brightest young stars including eighteen-year-old Pat Harris (Moorpark, Calif.) and sixteen-year-old Gurpal Kundi (Glendora, Calif.). Since joining the senior team in 2000, Harris has collected seven international goals and joined Cota and Hindy on the U.S. 2003 Indoor World Cup team in February. A member of the U.S. U16 team for the past two years, Kundi will be looking to make his first senior team appearance at the Pan Am Games.

      Also making their first appearances at the Pan Am Games, Jarred Martin (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) led the team in scoring at May’s Pan American Cup Qualifier with 10 goals, while Ian Scally (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Daraspreet Kainth (Fullerton, Calif.) and David Schmoyer (Doyelstown, Pa.) also collected goals in leading the U.S. team to a second place finish.

      The U.S. team selections also include Koijan Kainth (Fullerton, Calif.), Arjan Reyatt (Brea, Calif.), Daljeet Sagoo (Fullerton, Calif.) and goalkeepers Jason Wellings (Moorpark, Calif.) and Jeb Saez (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

      Alternates to the team include Ramandeep Sandhu (Camarillo, Calif.), Malachi Mahan (Camarillo, Calif.), Sean Harris (Moorpark, Calif.) and Chris Terrebonne (Glendale, Calif.).

      The U.S. will begin play in Pool A with tournament favorite Argentina, Chile and host Dominican Republic. Pool B features defending champion Canada, Cuba, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. The U.S. men open play with the first game of the tournament against Chile at 8:30 a.m. on August 2.

      The winner of the Pan Am Games earns the continent’s automatic berth in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

      The U.S. men’s Pan Am history includes bronze medals in 1967, 1987, 1991 and 1995.

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