Field hockey

At Ivy, I think she’d probably have to do one, but that is just my hunch

I thought so too but in my first pass I saw twins who are on both the Yale field hockey and lacrosse teams. And that was just the one I checked first. Either way, I am not sure I’d advise her to try two D1 sports if she wants to have a life and possibly be a science major.

My son plays in the Ivy with a couple kids who do two sports (football/baseball and football/track). I have no idea how those kids do it and keep their sanity. It is just a tremendous amount of work.

My D plays D2 lacrosse and she has a more than full schedule (and its only fall - ‘season’ hasn’t started) - they have practice, runs, lift/conditioning, fundraisers to attend as well as scrimmages which do require travel. D3 may be different but I cannot fathom how she’d play another sport right now. She did say she was going to play intramural rugby the first week and as far as I know with her LAX fall schedule and studying that has not happened.

Only about half the schools that sponsor women’s lacrosse also sponsor FH. That may limit your choice of colleges, but I don’t think it really will. Almost all those schools are in the north east and almost all the top ranked lax schools have FH.

Her coaches will know all the college coaches and be able to point her in the right direction.

The talk in youth sports is all about playing multiple sports, not focusing on one sport year round. Here your daughter is doing that so the college coaches should be receptive.

Thanks @twoinanddone I agree that playing multiple sports is important. She was even thinking of taking up ice hockey this winter but I had to suggest taking a break because the indoor season for both lacrosse and field hockey in the winter, along with the daily speed/agility/stick skills to prep for spring is enough IMO. She agreed but is still a bit sad to not play three sports. I admire her enthusiasm and love the joy she gets from a team environment (a big reason she wanted to play hockey) but I think the “break” will be good.

It is rare for women in D1 to play two sports. In terms of lax, I can think of one player each at the following schools that have played lax and another sport recently: UNC (lax and soccer), Duke (lax and soccer), Princeton (lax and FH), and BC (lax and ice hockey). At the NESCAC level, it is quite common. When my D was recruited for lax by NESCACs, she told them that she wanted to play FH also. The coaches were more than happy to let her do that as long as the FH coaches thought she was good enough to play there. The lax coaches introduced her to the FH coaches, and my D sent the FH coaches video. They agreed that they’d be happy to have her on the team. It was a pretty easy process to navigate with the coaches. I think NESCAC coaches expect that a bunch of the kids they recruit will want to play multiple sports. A few years ago I spoke with some Middlebury soccer players who said that they even had a couple women on their team who played three varsity sports at Midd.

There is a woman at Stanford who plays lax and soccer, and is a star in both.

@turnandrake thanks for the insight on NESCAC and playing two sports. My D is still a freshman but is hoping for this path. Several grads from her school are playing in the NESCAC so the coaches are familiar with the quality of players and academically it’s a good fit because her school is known for rigor. I’m glad to know that coaches for one sport will help facilitate introductions to coaches from the other.

It’s early days so for now we are just trying to gather information. Thanks.