Extractions: What's New? October 28, 2002 CAC recognizes legendary field hockey coach Marina van der Merwe in honour of Women's History Month OTTAWA - In honour of Women's History Month , the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) is honouring four of Canada's greatest women coaches based on this year's theme, Women and Sports - Champions Forever! Each week during the month of October, CAC will profile a legendary woman coach who has made a significant contribution to coaching and to sport in Canada. This week's feature is Marina van der Merwe , the head coach of Canada's women's field hockey team from 1976 to 1995. Marina van der Merwe produced one of Canada's most impressive success stories in team sports. When she was named head coach of the national team in 1976, the prospect of Canada being an international powerhouse in women's field hockey seemed almost as logical as Mexico being near the top in ice hockey. But in the 1980s and early 1990s, van der Merwe realized what many considered an impossible task. She took over the 16th ranked Canadian women's field hockey team and led it to three Olympic Games appearances (1984, 1988, 1992) and silver and bronze medals at the 1983 and 1986 World Cups respectively. Over that period, the women's field hockey squad was Canada's best summer sports team, male or female.
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Extractions: Web Edition Tuesday, Jun. 8, 2004 Choose a section Home page newhampshire.com Calendar of Events Parade Search archives MSNBC news Special Reports Business Directory Classified Ads Prior Editions Site Map Weather Online auctions Shop today's ads NH Politics Obituaries Salem Observer Sports NH Athletes of the Century: As a softball player at Salem High, Katie King played for four Class L champions, won all 44 of her pitching decisions, and became the teams best hitter. Continuing her career at Brown University, she earned Ivy League Player of the Year honors as the Bears top pitcher and most productive member of the batting order. King is better known in the annals of Brown athletics as the schools all-time womens ice hockey leader in goals and total points, with 123 and 206 from 1993-97, a period in which she won three Ivy League Player of the Year awards. Nationally, shes recognized as a star forward on the 1998 gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team and a probable member of the 2002 squad.
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Athletes, Coaches Front And Centre In Winnipeg Ann Harada and her teammates earned a bronze medal in women s field hockey. threePan Am Games and four olympics and teaches a course in olympic history at the http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/1999/99aug12/panam.html
Extractions: Alex Carre was in charge of the largest multi-sport team ever assembled by Canada at the largest athletic competition ever staged in this country the XIII Pan American Games in Winnipeg, which ended last weekend. "Personally it was an immense challenge and the pinnacle of my life's work in sports as an athlete, coach and administrator," says the associate professor in Human Kinetics and Canada's chef de mission for the games. UBC athletes played a role in Canada's record 196 medals which included 64 gold, 52 silver and 80 bronze earning 15 medals. "Canadians should be pleased and proud. These are our best-ever results," he says. "Our athletes turned in outstanding performances and are now competitive in every sport at the elite Pan Am level." Carre who asked Canadians to keep the motto, `A goal is a dream with a deadline,' in mind was appointed to the key position three years ago. He was responsible for Canada's 624 athletes and 264 coaches, trainers and officials. "My job included overseeing everything from accommodations to making certain that all the conditions for fair and equitable competition were met," he says.
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Rutgers Adds Four New Members To Olympic HOF - The Daily Targum - Sports graduating from RU, Faith continued her field hockey career with Bronze Medal at the1980 US olympic Sports Festival the first and only time in school history. http://www.dailytargum.com/news/2003/02/10/Sports/Rutgers.Adds.Four.New.Members.
Extractions: A four-time All-American and three-time Big East Champion, Koranyi was the Scarlet Knights' top performer in the 800 meters from 1993 to 1997. In addition to helping the Rutgers track program to five Metropolitan Championships, he is also the school record-holder in both the indoor and outdoor 800 meter events. Displaying excellence on and off the field, Koranyi was a First Team Academic All-America selection in 1996 and earned the 1997 Leslie Coursen Award as the University's most outstanding senior male athlete.
Extractions: RESEARCHERS REPORT IOWA CITY, Iowa - At least one in six athletes representing the United States in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta had a history of asthma, according to a study published today in the November issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Olympic Committee sought to examine how many athletes in the 1996 Olympic Games had a history of asthma, had taken asthma medications or had symptoms that suggested asthma. Asthma is a lung disease characterized by tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, wheezing and cough. To examine the prevalence of asthma, John Weiler, M.D., University of Iowa professor of internal medicine, and his co-authors analyzed responses from an extensive, mandatory medical history questionnaire required of all U.S. Olympic athletes competing in the 1996 Olympic Games. The questionnaire was completed during team processing in Atlanta two weeks prior to participation in the Olympic Games and responses were reviewed with each athlete. The questionnaire, designed by the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Medicine Division with input from Weiler and his colleagues, included specific questions regarding allergic and respiratory disorders.
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Extractions: Timeline World Cup ... Hall of Fame Constance Applebee presents a hockey exhibition at Harvard First hockey club formed in Poughkeepsie, NY American Field Hockey Association founded, Constance Applebee elected President First interclass contest Philadelphia hockey league formed USFHA officially formed and the constitution unanimously accepted Constance Applebee opens Tegawitha Hockey Camp in Mt. Pocono, PA, the first field hockey camp in the U.S. USFHA Umpiring Committee begins rating officials Field Hockey Association of America founded FHAA joins the Federation International de Hockey (FIH) U.S. Men compete in their first Olympic Games in Los Angeles First Pan Am Games to include men's field hockeyU.S. Team wins bronze medal University of Connecticut hosts the first NCAA Field Hockey Championship U.S. Women take bronze medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
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Extractions: Welcome to the best and most comprehensive resource on Indian Field Hockey If you are a first time visitor to India Field Hockey, we would appreciate if you could Sign our Guestbook . Else you can always Browse our Guestbook (last updated on June 1). Hockey News June 2004 Monthly Bulletin June Monthly Features News Archives Policeman Gill Abuses and Throws Out Sahara Camera Crew Photograph of the Month 2003 Archives Dhanraj Is Volatile Only When Fighting For a Just Cause ... Hockey Coaching For the Record Indian Hockey Calendar : 1997 - 2004 Indian Women Player Details - Indian Men Player Details - Indian Men Player Awards Indian Men Player Birthdays India in the Olympics Golden Moments (1928 - 1980) Olympic Captains (1928 - 2000) Reports Sydney 2000 Atlanta 1996 Commentary Unbalanced Sports Coverage in the Indian Media Victory Among the Chrysanthemums By Melville de Mellow Open Goal, Closed Mind By Shekhar Gupta India Needs to Discover Another Sport By Harsha Bhogle The Poetry And Prose Of Sport By Rajdeep Sardesai The Cruel Gods of Indian Sport By Tom Alter Their Hearts Will Always Go On By Rohit Brijnath Hockey Just Isn't Cricket By Shekhar Gupta Photo Gallery Indian Hockey's Yuva Sena (Youth Brigade) 1984 Los Angeles - Time Magazine Article 1996 Atlanta Ads - Reebok BPL SAIL 2000 Sydney Ads - IBM Catch Balbir Singh Senior Photo Gallery Patrick Jansen Photo Gallery Khel Ratna - Dhanraj Pillai Dhanraj in Deutschland
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Extractions: Historians agree that this sport was being played by civilizations that predate the Ancient Olympic games by more than 1,000 years. Drawings on ancient Egyptian tombs offer evidence that this was the first of all the stick-and-ball sports. The current form of the game gained popularity throughout the British Empire in the 19th century, especially in the region that includes India and Pakistan. The 2000 Sydney games saw elimination of the offsides rule, formally rescinded by the International Hockey Federation in 1998 to foster improved scoring. The game is played on an artificial turf field that is 100 yards by 60 yards. The goals are seven feet high and 12 feet wide (a soccer goal is one foot taller and twice the width). In front of each goal is a semi-circle measured 16 yards from each goal post. All scoring must happen from within this area called the goal circle.
Extractions: Romans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs and Aztecs were enjoying jolly hockey sticks long before the fathers of the modern Games dreamt their dream. Indeed, Cleopatra and her descendants might once have peered out over a hockey match if sketches found in a tomb at Ben Hasan in Egypt that dates back 4,000 years are to be believed; they show a form of the game being played with sticks and rocks. Historians also believe that the native Indian populations of North America played a long version of the game, in which the goals were miles apart and hundreds of players took part throughout a whole day. What the called their game we may never know, as hockey is thought to be derived from the French word hocquet, meaning shepherd's crook, the shape of a hockey stick. The modern game, field hockey, was developed largely in English schools in the 1800s and was spread through the British Empire by the Army. Rules were standardised by the London Hockey Association after it was formed in 1886. It was not until 38 years later that the International Hockey Federation was born in Paris, while the federation for women's hockey followed in 1927.
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Extractions: Though the games date back to antiquity where people hit a ball with a stick, modern Hockey only came in the 19th century in Great Britain. Soon the game developed throughout the Commonwealth and became especially popular in India and Pakistan. Before Athens Olympic Games next August, learn more about Field Hockey with eurosport.com! A short history In 1886, the English Hockey Association was created and common rules were introduced. Hockey first became an Olympic discipline in 1908, with a second appearance in 1920. Since 1928, hockey has been an Olympic discipline, with 1980 being the year that women's hockey was also introduced as an Olympic discipline. From 1928 India dominated the event and continued to do so until 1956. In 1960 the Pakistan team won for the first time, and provided excellent competition for the Indian team, with whom they had some thrilling matches.
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Extractions: Field Hockey Field hockey is a non-contact sport played on the amateur level and was formalized in England around 1861. The game has since become popular throughout Europe and in India (where it is the national sport), Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and parts of South America, Asia, and Africa. Click a link to
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Extractions: The Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Persians and Ethiopians all played variations of the game. Several centuries before Christopher Columbus found his New World, the Aztec Indians were playing it in Central America. The Araucano Indians of Argentina invented a game similar to hockey called Cheuca, believing it would make them better warriors. hockie The modern game we know as hockey - or field hockey, for those distinguishing it from ice hockey - evolved in the British Isles in the 19th century. It was a popular English school game, possibly adapted from the Irish game of hurling. "India won six straight Olympic gold medals while winning 24 consecutive matches between 1924 and 1956, a record likely to stand through the ages. The Indians have won two more gold since then."
