Festival teams announced
| U16 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team | Hometown | |
| Capitol Pegasus Trans Am | Rockville | |
| Jackals | Rockville | |
| Mavsport | Burtonsville | |
| North Bay Crush | Earleville | |
| Waitlist | ||
| Howard Stampede | Ellicott City | |
| U19 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team | Hometown | |
| Capitol Pegasus Eagles | Rockville | |
| Club Applebee USA | Baltimore | |
| Jackals Carolina | Rockville | |
| Mavsports | Burtonsville | |
| Shore | Easton | |
| Southeast Storm | Crofton | |
| Spark | Odenton | Spitfire | Columbia |
| The Gaels | Severna Park | |
| Waitlist | ||
| Greene Turtle Fells Point | Baltimore | |
USA Field Hockey today (May 4) posted the list of clubs who have gotten bids into the National Hockey Festival in November and nine U19 teams from Maryland and four U16 teams are in, with one in each group on a wait list.
The Festival is the premier national event for field hockey, taking place the week of Thanksgiving and returning again this year to Phoenix, Az.
The Maryland teams are listed at left, more details and clubs from other states are listed on the USAFH site.
Hometowns in the list are what USAFH has listed.
Pool assignments for teams will be released much closer to the event and we’ll post those here when we get them.
Meanwhile, some quick statistics on the U19 pool shows that Pennsylvania, as usual, has the most teams in the Festival — a whopping 42 out of nearly 150 teams total — followed by New Jersey with 19 and California with 16. Maryland? Nine, which is still more than Delaware and the same as Virginia.
List follows (click on headers to sort it by numbers or state):
| State | Total |
|---|---|
| CA | 16 |
| CO | 1 |
| CT | 5 |
| DE | 4 |
| IL | 3 |
| KY | 4 |
| MA | 6 |
| MD | 9 |
| ME | 2 |
| MI | 1 |
| MO | 4 |
| NC | 3 |
| NH | 1 |
| NJ | 19 |
| NY | 7 |
| OH | 5 |
| PA | 42 |
| RI | 1 |
| TX | 1 |
| VA | 9 |
| WI | 1 |