About FH & Our Club

What is field hockey?

• Each team has 11 players on the field at one time: 1 goalkeeper and 10 field players (defenders, midfielders and attackers). 

• A stick is used to hit a ball along the ground into a goal cage on a soccer-sized field.  Each goal counts as one point.

• Only the flat side of the stick can be used to hit the ball. 

• The ball must be passed or dribbled using the stick; no other body part is allowed to intentionally come into contact with the ball.

• Protective equipment includes shin guards and mouth guards.

Fun Facts

• An Olympic Sport played in 137 countries.

• Women’s scholarship sport at many NCAA colleges Division I and II universities.

• Field hockey dates back almost 3,000 years to the classical Greek era.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a field hockey powerhouse, winning 10 NCAA championships and 9 runner-up awards since 1989.

• The US Women’s National Team (USWNT) moved its headquarters to the Charlotte metro area in 2021.

Our Team

• Our club is fully funded through player fees, donations, and fundraising. 

• We are growing the game, so we welcome new players that are sports oriented, hard workers, and willing to learn! 

• Our first season as an official club sport at Providence was fall 2019.

• We have practices and host home games at Matthews Sportplex, not on the PHS campus.