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Field Hockey Gains Youth Following; Vienna-Based Program Creates Surge in Interest

When Oakton field hockey coach Marsha Ehrsam met with other local high school field hockey coaches recently she left them in shock.

She told them about her new field hockey program through Vienna Youth, Inc., and then she told them the number of kids enrolled.

"They just about fell out of their chairs," said Kay Rupert, a VYI field hockey organizer.

Rupert and other organizers anticipated 50 players would enroll in the three-week-old VYI program for second- through eighth-grade girls and boys. It instead attracted 91.

Two thirds of the players had never played field hockey.

Ehrsam began teaching field hockey to children at Oakton four years ago when she became head coach of the school's ...

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