Sea to Sky Field Hockey: Behind the Scenes

Sidney Martin (G7)

Published Issue 1 2020-2021

Sports

When I asked Tatiana what she liked about field hockey, she told me that the Club has taught her to use skill and stick development to make easy passes and be able to use her stick in the correct way. She told me that you have to use your stick in a specific way to get past people when needed. She also says that even though it’s like every other sport with the positioning, there is a lot of stick skills you need to know to understand the game.

When I asked her what she liked about the Club, she said: “Well, the coaches used to be from a national league from Canada, so our coaches are really good, and they… have a lot of knowledge about field hockey, so they teach us about positioning and good strategies to make us better players.” This shows that in addition to inspiring the founders’ children to like field hockey, they have also inspired other children to get in on the action.

While the Club practices and plays normally around Vancouver, Tatiana’s division always practices at Mulgrave school, which makes it easier for all the Mulgrave students to practice! One of the things that is really important about the Club is how much they want their players to improve not only in field hockey but in life. “It definitely helps with my stamina because we have to do ... warm-ups which is a long time for us and helped me gain stamina because before I joined field hockey my stamina was not that good and I couldn’t run for a long period of time but, now I can,” Tatiana stated. Overall, the Sea to Sky Field Hockey Club seems like a great place to play field hockey!