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American's Maranzano Selected to Attend
Field Hockey Junior Nationals
Junior Midfielder played on U.S. summer-league team

Junior Midfielder Heather Maranzano.

August 9, 2004

WASHINGTON - American University Field Hockey player Heather Maranzano (Williamsburg, Va./Jamestown) has been selected to attend “A” Camp, better known as the Junior National Trials. Players are selected for the U.S. National team in early January from the “A” Camp pool. Maranzano was selected after participating in the “B” camp this summer while playing for the Tidewater Tempest, one of US Field Hockey’s summer-league teams ...

Miller Named to CoSIDA Academic All-District II Women's At-Large First Team
Senior becomes first athlete in the program's history to win the award

Two American University Field Hockey Players Participate in Pan American Games
Villagra and Infante represent the Chilean National Team

AU Places Third on NFHCA Division I National Academic Team List
Eagles finish behind Stanford and LaSalle with 3.37 GPA

AU Field Hockey Places 12 on the NFHCA Div. 1 National Academic Squad
Hershberger leads Eagles with 3.94 GPA in Political Science

American Field Hockey Ranked Ninth on
National Ratings Percentage Index Poll
Ranking puts AU among top programs in the country

Miller Named Patriot League Field Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year
15 field hockey players join senior on the honor roll

Jennings Named 2003 Dita/NFHCA Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year
Led Eagles to the best season in school history

Villagra Named to 2003 STX/NFHCA Division I All-American Second Team
Junior scored 17 goals in 2003 season

Infante, Villagra and Miller Named to
2003 STX/NFHCA Division I All-Region Team
Eagles finish season 17-4 overall, 6-0 in
Patriot League

Senior Captain Melissa Snyder and the 21 other members of the American University Women’s Field Hockey team are not your typical collegiate athletes. Without a home field, the team travels 25 minutes to the University of Maryland every morning to practice before most are rising from bed. With the dedication and desire to train their bodies to not just wake up at 5:30 a.m. every morning but also to practice at a high intensity for three hours a day, the 2003 Field Hockey team have gone beyond all expectations.

In 17 games, they are 14-3 and undefeated in the Patriot League during the regular season. Their only losses came at the hands of 13th-ranked University of Richmond in a double overtime heartbreaker, Boston University and third-ranked University of Maryland. In addition, the team is ranked 19th in the country heading into this weekend’s Patriot League Championship Tournament at Holy Cross. As Snyder explains, “It all comes down to this weekend. This has been our goal all season long. Win the Patriot League and make it to NCAAs.”...

A Day In the Life: American University Field Hockey
AU Eagles take no short cuts before, during or after practice

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Erin Silliman, a junior on the American University field hockey team, explained to me how the rest of the world views her sleeping habits.

"Last season after I had surgery, I used to go into The Eagles Nest before practice for hot chocolate in scrubs and a t-shirt and one day one of the women (working) said, 'So you must be a nurse, that's why you are in here so early every morning.'"

Silliman laughs, standing in the cold rain one Wednesday morning practice. The music major explained that she was still an undergrad, but was also a member of the university's field hockey team..
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Senior Attacker Has All the Right Moves
Aguilar brings life experiences to AU field hockey team

September 6, 2002

WASHINGTON - Magdalena Aguilar could only schedule all-girls classes until she was 13, when the private school she attended offered a coed French class.

If it was the first time Aguilar had practiced conjugating verbs with boys, it certainly wasn't the first time she had caught their attention.

"My brother used to come home from school and tell me to act more feminine," says Aguilar, who remembers spending most of her recess and free time playing soccer among other sports with boys. "He kept saying that everyone told him 'Your sister is weird.'" ...