University of North Carolina Athletics
Four Tar Heels Named To Junior World Cup Team
July 28, 2009 | Field Hockey
July 28, 2009
Four North Carolina field hockey players have been named to the 2009 USA Women's Junior World Cup Team following a recent training combine in Wellesley, Mass. Elizabeth Drazdowski, Katelyn Falgowski, Jackie Kintzer and Kelsey Kolojejchick were selected for the 18-player roster, giving Carolina the highest representation on the squad of any college program.
Drazdowski, Falgowski and Kintzer will be juniors at UNC during the 2009 season, while Kolojejchick is an incoming freshman.
The team will represent the U.S. at the 2009 BDO Women's Junior World Cup Aug. 3-16 in Boston. The event includes 16 of world's top junior national field hockey teams. Held every four years, the Junior World Cup is the top international field hockey event for players under age 21. It is the largest international field hockey event ever to be held in the U.S., with nearly 300 athletes participating. All games will take place at Harvard University's Jordan Field.
The 16 national teams competing in the tournament are: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Chile, China, England, France, Germany, India, Lithuania, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the United States. Korea has won the last two events, in 2005 and 2001. Other former champions since the first Junior World Cup in 1989 are Germany (1989), Argentina (1993) and the Netherlands (1997).
The U.S. team won the gold medal at the 2008 Junior Pan Am Cup last October to qualify for the Junior World Cup. Drazdowski and Kintzer both were members of that team, while Falgowski represented the U.S. at the Olympic Games last summer.
For the full U.S. roster, click here.
