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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holton Sophomore (now a Junior)was recruited to Stanford for lacrosse.   She is awesome at Field Hockey as well.[/quote]

Field hockey is stupid.[/quote]

Totally. If you are too stupid to understand it.[/quote]

Nope, it is lame. It requires low levels of athleticism, and is for kids who couldn't cut it in any other sport. To slow for track, to short for basketball, lousy at LAX.

It is awful. [/quote]

Another a*shole parent I see. Maybe, just maybe, some kids actually like the game and choose to play it because they enjoy it. Have you ever watched a competitive field hockey game? I've been to tournaments all over the U.S. for field hockey, and some of the club level teams are no joke. "Too" slow for lax you say? Many of the girls at my kids' HS play field hockey in the fall and LAX in the spring.  That's why there are options my friend. Basketball and LAX aren't the only HS sports you know...[/quote]

I'm sorry, but just because your kid plays field hockey, and field hockey has "high levels of play", does not mean that it is a great sport. You enjoy it and that is terrific. I find it to be a sport of minimal entertainment value. I don't see stick skill that rivals LAX or even the games ice played cousin. I don't see the power or speed that other sports require and the tactics of simply gaining numbers is not significantly different from other sports to make field hockey stand out or even remotely unique. The ability to change on the fly along with high numbers of players on the field limits the ability of kids to go "all out" for 25 minutes and reduces their endurance for long stretches of the game. I have seen field hockey players, based on their build, who would not last a full half on a soccer field.

You are of course free to sell the virtues of field hockey to me and perhaps your arguments will be compelling enough for me to change my mind.  I'm of an open mind.[/quote]

I think you're confused.  In your post above, you've clearly mistaken two different response posts written by two separate people.  I am the poster who does not have children who play field hockey but I have watched games played by my daughter's school team.  It is my post referencing '25 minutes'.  I have no interest in trying to 'sell the virtues of field hockey to' you until you've improved your grammar, you've developed better reading comprehension and you have shown some ability to open your mind.

I am not really sure where all this aggressive hate is coming from and I don't appreciate at all how you feel it is appropriate to be so disparaging about another sport or the young woman referenced in the original post about field hockey.  I don't even know her and I am offended on her behalf by your inability to simply recognize her achievement and then let it go.

You like lax.  We get it.  I like lax, too; however, I don't have any need to throw down on another sport just because my children don't play it.  Honestly, parents like you are the ones who have given lax such a bad rep.  Sheesh.[/quote]

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