Photo courtesy of Mount Holyoke College Athletics
By Gigi Picard ’22
Sports Editor
This module’s final team of the week is Mount Holyoke Field Hockey.
Last fall, Mount Holyoke Field Hockey finished their season on Nov. 5 while competing at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Championship Quarterfinals against host Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Assistant Coach Emet Marwell talked about what the team did over the summer. According to Marwell, they formed a Black Lives Matter Committee in order “to lead anti-racism work within our team.” The goal of the committee is to educate the team and the community around them.
Further, Field Hockey also participated in the Athletes Taking Action Challenge by starting a fundraiser and raising over $1,200 to donate to Girls Inc. and the Black Business and Professional Association. In addition, the team featured Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday baby pictures of team members on their social media.
The captains of Mount Holyoke Field Hockey are Julia Klein ’21 and Mirei Golding-Powers ’21.
Junior Leah Pendl-Robinson mentioned what the team is currently up to. The team has been holding biweekly meetings to check up on how the school is going for each of the athletes. In terms of how the first-year athletes are doing, Pendl-Robinson said they “fit right in,” are not “afraid to ask questions” and are “super enthusiastic.”
Golding-Powers added that the team is planning virtual activities including a BFF quiz, a bake-off and a fact-matching game. “We also have smaller groups over social media platforms to include the first-years, which is always so fun,” she said.
When asked what she missed most about the typical field hockey seasons, Pendl-Robinson said she missed “the team's chaotic but happy atmosphere before games to hype us up and having so many friends around to have a good laugh with.”
“I miss our night games under the lights on a cool fall night,” Golding-Powers said. “There's just something so special about walking out onto the turf with your team and hearing the music blasting from the speakers to play a home game.”
Mount Holyoke Soccer will be featured as our next team of the week.