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USA Field Hockey U16 Men to Host Mexico, British Columbia at Moorpark

Colorado Springs, Colo. (June 23, 2004) – The USA Field Hockey men’s Under-16 Team will host junior squads from Mexico and British Columbia in a round-robin tournament, June 25-27 in Moorpark, Calif.

The tournament will feature a split Red/Blue squad for the USA when competition begins on Friday. The USA Red team will open play against Mexico at 5 p.m. followed by USA Blue against Vancouver at 6:15 p.m. Friday (all times Pacific Daylight Time). The teams will continue with morning session games at 8 a.m. (USA Red vs. USA Blue) and 9:15 (British Columbia vs. Mexico) before returning for an afternoon session beginning at 1 p.m. (USA Blue vs. Mexico) and 2:16 p.m. (USA Red vs. British Columbia). The evening session features crossover play beginning at 5 p.m. The tournament concludes with classification games on Sunday beginning at 8 a.m.

Selected in February, the men’s U16 team and coach Mike Whitehead return to international competition for the first time since competing in the spring’s International Easter Tournament in Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. The USA team won the consolation bracket title at the tournament. Whitehead and Billie Ahluwalia will serve as coaches for the two USA squads.

Members of the USA U16 Red team include Kenny Armstrong (Moorpark, Calif.), Kevin Barber (Camarillo, Calif.), Jed Cunningham (Moorpark, Calif.), Dean Daily (Westlake, Calif.), Jonathon Ginolfi (Moorpark, Calif.), Grant Mohr (Ventura, Calif.), Jignesh Padhir (Huntington, Calif.), Colin Scally (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ryan Shaw (Westlake Village, Calif.), Colin Smith (Moorpark, Calif.),, Ryan Sundeen (Simi Valley, Calif.) and goalkeeper Andrew Zyac (Columbia, Md.).

The USA U16 Blue team includes Derrick Akerman (Moorpark, Calif.), Amrit Ahluwalia (Irvine, Calif.), Sean Fleming (Westlake Village, Calif.), Brian Gose (Camarillo, Calif.), Michael Hawkins (Ventura, Calif.), Asavir Kalla (Cupertino, Calif.), Evan Lucanish (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Jacob Mahan (Camarillo, Calif.), Evan Munsing (Wyomissing, Pa.), Viren Padhir (Fountain Valley, Calif.), goalkeeper Tyson Reeves (Ventura, Calif.), Kurt Sweitzer (Moorpark, Calif.) and Mathew Thomas (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).