Female Athlete News contributor Jill Gattens wrote a hit piece about the comeback of Lycoming College’s field hockey program.
She discovered that after 30 years of not offering athletes the chance to play on the college’s NCAA Division III team, the institution’s leaders pushed to start it back up in 2022. The process began in 2020.
“‘Connected.”
That’s the word Lycoming Field Head Coach Allyson Kenyon used to describe the 2022 Lycoming College field hockey team after competing in its first season for the first time in 30 years.
“We worked really hard to embrace each other’s differences,” Kenyon said. “We become connected kind of through this same goal of wanting to improve and wanting to learn and just really making this team the best it can be.”
The last time the Lycoming Warriors played a game for the college was in 1992. They finished the 2022 season 2-13, but the players gained so much more.”
No. 3 After three decades of not offering field hockey, Lycoming College brought it back
