US Field Hockey News
Athletes Named
to USA Field Hockey's National Futures Tournament
COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo. –
Six hundred and twelve of the nation's top young field hockey players
will get the chance to showcase their skills for national team selectors
when the USA Field Hockey Association conducts its National Futures
Tournament, June 30-July 4 at the USA Field Hockey National Training
Center in Virginia Beach.
The tournament
represents the culmination of USA Field Hockey's Futures Talent
Identification Program where promising athletes receive five months of
elite-level training and tactical instruction in preparation for
possible future selection to the USA National Teams. The top athletes
from the program's 5000 participants are then selected to compete at the
national tournament based on performances in regional events. At the
national tournament, athletes are placed on regional teams in Under-14,
Under-16 or Under-19 divisions.
Through their
performances at the National Tournament, athletes may be invited to B
Camp – USA Field Hockey's mid-level national selection camp – or earn
additional opportunities for further skills development in the Futures
Elite program, the inaugural USA-Canada Field Hockey Challenge Cup teams
(July 27-Aug. in Virginia Beach or the AAU Junior Olympic Games team
(for athletes 16 and younger). The tournament also provides an
evaluation opportunity for collegiate coaches to view and evaluate the
nation's top field hockey athletes as potential student athletes in
their respective programs.
Pennsylvania led all
states with 111 athletes selected to the tournament, followed by New
Jersey with 90, Virginia, 60; New York, 56; California, 49;
Massachusetts, 39; Connecticut 29; and Kentucky and Ohio with 23 each.
Complete rosters for
the tournament are available on the U.S. Field Hockey website at
www.usfieldhockey.com/futures/results04/index.htm
At the National
Futures Tournament, teams compete in 4-team round-robin pool play before
advancing to crossover and classification matches to determine the
Under-14, Under-16 and Under-19 champions.
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