Being that the semester has wound down (OFFICIALLY HAVE NO MORE WORK TO DO - can you tell I'm excited!), I have had the time to go to a few cool places the past few days....
It was awesome! I went there on Tuesday night to watch the Yankees play the Kansas City Royals. It was my first MLB game!
Hello readers! I'm sorry for my blogging absence... I was very busy during Spring Break! I didn't decide to do the "traditional" Spring Break trip of going some place warm like Florida. Instead, I spent my break in Candada to site-see and then in Maryland for an indoor field hockey tournament! This is the first Spring Break that spent out and about rather than just relaxing at home.
CANADA
My sister, a friend, and I decided to go to Canada at the beginning of Spring Break. My sister and I had never been there before so we figured it'd be something cool to see... and let me tell you, it was awesome! We went to Niagara Falls and Toronto! My next blog will go more into depth of what we did and have pictures, so look out for it :)
MARYLAND
Anyways, at the end of Spring Break, my sister, a friend, and I participated in a field hockey tournament in Maryland (near Washington DC). I hadn't really played too much field hockey since season
ended in the fall, because I chose to take a break and pick up running to train for a half marathon (which is less than a month away - can't believe it!). Needlesstosay, I was really looking forward to playing.
We played on an adult club team and our name for the tournament was "Phun". We wanted to be competitive and do well in the tournament, but our primary goal was just to have fun and enjoy playing! We were successful, because It really was a lot of fun! I got to play some field hockey and meet new people! The only downside... I am EXTREMELY sore today!
On Friday afternoon we departed for our long away trip to Pittsburgh to play Washington and Jefferson for Saturday morning. The trip was really long particularly because there was loads of anticipation. Not only was this a huge conference game for us, but we also had a full weekend consisting of a visit to a scarehouse and dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse.
Our long trip began with watching tons of fun movies on the bus ride including Charlie’s Angels, Zoolander, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I enjoy napping on the bus so I admit that I didn’t watch all of them!
When we finally arrived in Pittsburgh we went right to dinner. It was delicious! I got to sit at a table with my sister, Karen, and Mel. It was nice to sit down and have dinner with the seniors on the team (it doesn’t normally happen). We stuffed our faces but not too much because we wanted to be ready for the scarehouse.
The scarehouse we went to is one of the best in the country. We went there as a team the last time we were in Pittsburgh and it was absolutely terrifying! The link to the scarehouse is at http://www.scarehouse.com/ . I knew what was to come, but I will admit that I still screamed A LOT.
Saturday morning comes around and we are set to play W&J at 10am. The team was extremely pumped to play this game, because we’ve played W&J in the conference championship for the past two years AND they were undefeated in conference this year. The game proved to meet our expectations. It was an extremely competitive game. They scored first on us. Even though I hate getting scored on, I will admit that their goal was good. We answered right back in the first half with Mary Nikish scoring on a corner. The second half was played in both sides of the field. The excitement came at the end of the game. W&J got a corner against us with no time left in regulation. They took a shot that was deflected high and one of their players raised her stick and batted the ball into the goal. W&J stormed the field and began cheering. The official originally called it a goal to end the game but I immediately went up to her after she made the call to argue against it saying that it wasn’t legal. Luckily, the other official agreed with me and the goal was taken back… meaning we were now about to start overtime! W&J got corners against us but the defense played great so we were able to deny them the golden goal that would’ve ended the game. A few minutes later in the overtime, Caitlin “Cali” Chamberlain got a breakaway against the other team but was tripped from behind in the circle. Therefore, the official awarded us a penalty stroke. Mallory stepped up to take the stroke and scored! It was a beautiful stroke and ended the game! We were so excited, because it was a great game that could’ve gone either way but we were able to get it done.
I could not be more proud of our performance… I’m not even mad that I lost my voice this weekend! :)
Being a student athlete here at Stevens not only demands time in the classroom and on the field or court but also in the community. We are very big on community service both though the Athletics Department and through every activity on campus.
I was able to participate in 2 community service projects this week: the Duckling Program and the National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
The Duckling Program in a nutshell is when a varsity team goes to an elementary school in program to teach a lesson about a given topic. The program started recently but it has been a major success! On Wednesday was the field hockey team's first visit of this year. We went into a fourth grade class to teach a lesson on teamwork. I think the kids really enjoyed our visit, and I can tell you that I had a lot of fun!
As for the National Girls and Women in Sports Day, it is an event that celebrates women in sports. Stevens decided to host clinics prior to the women's basketball game (which also happened to be senior day AND WBCA Pink Zone!). The clinics included: wrestling, soccer, field hockey, tennis, and volleyball. Everything went really well and everyone stayed to watch the women's team beat Utica in conference play :)
Athletics Press Release
Here are some pictures that I took and I am sure that more will be uploaded to the Stevens Athletics website if you are interested.
