We’re also partial to field hockey at my house

My wife played D3. And one of my daughters was a good player, too, though more D3-caliber than D1. At the end of the day, she decided she would rather spend life under the Golden Dome sans varsity field hockey than, for example, at a NESCAC school that does play.

For awhile, I had hoped that Savvy Jack would initiate a program at ND, as about half the ACC fields a team, as does a majority of the B1G. But rolling out new programs doesn’t seem a sensible conversation these days.

There are still a few other programs west of the Mississippi: SLU scrapes it, Iowa has a strong program, and both Berkeley and UC-Davis are, to my knowledge, still waving the California flag in America East. I thought Denver also had a program, probably because my daughter had attended a camp there, but it seems that they do not.