field hockey

basic facts

• Played with 11 players
• 10 in the field, 1 in net
• Played with wooden or composite hooked sticks
• Plastic hard, spherical balls (sometime over cork core)
• Two nets, one on either side of the field

object of the game

fouls

• shielding or obstructing ball from player
• use rounded side of stick
• charge, hit, shove or trip an opponent
• play ball dangerously
• raise stick above waist to play ball

more fouls

• advance ball with anything other than a stick
• stop or deflect the ball with body part
• hit, hook, hold another persons stick

types of passes

• Flat Pass- a pass directly left or right
• Through Pass- a pass directly forward
• Back Pass- A pass directly back

types of hits

• Choke
• Drive
• Sweep and Reverse Sweep
• Push
• Flick

shots

• Hit- Drive, choke
• Push
• Flick
• Sweeps- Reverse or normal
• Penalty Stroke

Did you know?

• Field hockey athletes get the most scholarships
• Players travel more than 5 miles during the course of a game 
• Pennsylvania has the highest number of players in the US
• There are no left-handed field hockey sticks
• Field Hockey is the most popular college sport