Sacramento

Head Coach Amanda Boyer traveled to Sacramento this weekend to attend the 54th Annual California Coaches Association Coach of the Year Banquet. Amanda was presented with the Rookie Coach of the Year Award. She felt “it was an honor to represent Newport Harbor Field Hockey and to be amidst such an amazing group of high caliber coaches.” Congratulations to our Rookie Coach of the Year!

Huntington Beach HS Coach, Cathy Van Doornum, received Field Hockey Coach of the Year. The Sunset League was well represented!

Thank You!

A big thank you goes out to Booster President Jeff Chandler (and anyone else who may have helped) for setting up the field hockey goals. The girls were very excited to use them today.


Another special thank you to Newport Harbor Field Hockey Alum and the 2010-2011 JV Coach, Sasha Grumman, for coming to visit at practice today!

Summer Camp Info

Summer Camp is coming! Just some information and a few reminders:

JUNIOR HIGH SUMMER CAMP
Junior High Camp Registration is still open. JH Camp will consist of 7th and 8th graders of fall ’11. Incoming freshman will be in the High School Summer Camp. Be sure to get registration sent in asap as we only have 40 spots. Registration close will be announced at www.newportharborfieldhockey.com.

HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP
Reminder that the Athletics_Clearance_Packet will be due on the first day of summer camp, as well as the Newport Harbor Field Hockey Summer Camp 2011 Registration Form and Contribution.

If you have any questions please email us at newportharborfieldhockey@gmail.com.

Update on Sasha

Newport Harbor Field Hockey Alum and 2010-2011 JV Coach, Sasha Grumman, sent us an update on how she is doing in culinary school. Thanks Sash!

Sasha spent time in New York City earlier this year: “NYC is fun/exhausting…as you can imagine. School is going well. Pretty long days: 9:30 – 3:30 in the kitchen every day and then Italian language class for 2 hours almost every day. An example of a full course that we will do in a day is a salad with pancetta dressing and a poached egg, then potato gnocchi with a sage sauce, and then a roasted rack of lamb and artichokes. Everything is timed and they watch your every move, but it’s fun! Love the adrenaline rush. Italian is also going super well. Knowing Spanish has helped a lot. Overall, I am super happy with the experience and have been learning a lot. We’ve been able  to work with a wide range of ingredients; everything from octopus and cuttlefish to rabbits and quails. We’ve also broken down ducks and filleted all kinds of fish. While it’s fun here, I do miss you all and it’s always so great to hear from the field hockey family!”

Sasha is now in the second part of her program, which is in Italy: “Italy is absolutely amazing. So much more exciting than NYC, which I thought was impossible. The food is amazing, I’m meeting a lot of Italian students and speaking broken Italian and English. The school is beautiful and I have a great apartment! Things are going well!”

Sasha starts her internship next week at a restaurant called Da Caino in Tuscany. Good luck Sasha, keep in touch!