So I think accessibility to places to play , opportunities to play clubs and leagues to play for and continuing to get out on the field was a challenge . And I think it is a challenge for a lot of players . I just did everything I could to find extra opportunities to play and get on the field if practices were limited this month because we could only get access to the field a few times .
So if you have it , use it any advice I would give to younger upcoming athletes , especially female athletes would be own your space . It can be challenging at times but find your voice , amplify it and hold your ground .
It's a very , very , very expensive kind of turf and there are no , no high schools that have access to that kind of turf . So I think accessibility to places to play , opportunities to play clubs and leagues to play for and continuing to get out on the field was a challenge . And I think it is a challenge for a lot of players .
So off the field , when you're not working on skills , focusing on your speed and agility is crucial . I think a challenge that a lot of field hockey players experience in the US is that it unfortunately is a bit of an underdeveloped sport here overseas . It's a very popular sport even for men .
But in the US , especially in a lot of different areas like the Midwest , it's starting to grow , but it's really big in the East coast , but everywhere else , it's not a really big sport . So I think that having access to facilities , equipment is a really big challenge in our sport and we're trying to get more progressed in those areas so that everybody can be a part of the sport . But I think that access to fields , the turf that we play on as a division one sport is Astroturf .
