A former Goderich High School student is on her way to the second training tour with the Canadian National Field Hockey Team.
17-year-old Darcie Brohman started play field hockey with the Goderich Field Hockey team and her coach, Ray Lewis, suggested she try out for Team Ontario, so she did and made that team and at a tournament in B C against the national team, she was recruited to join the national team at a training camp from that tournament.
She said, “I was fortunate enough to be selected to that camp right after nationals. From there I got put on the next gen list, so the next generation of the senior national players, like the Olympic team, kind of who they see is going to be have an affect on the national stage.”
She says, from there she was invited to go on two training tours. The first one was in California with the Under-16 Canadian team and that was just before COVID arrived. And now she's getting to leave for the second tour in Philadelphia with the Under-18 team.
Darcie says she doesn't know where this will all lead,
“I definitely want to play on the senior national team one day and the junior national team. There's a lot of different national teams, there's the U-16 and the U-18 team and I want to continue on the pathway all the way up to the senior level, hopefully make the Olympic team, go to the Olympics. That's my big dream,” she added.
Darcie says she's in grade eleven now and goes to high school at Appleby College in Oakville now to be closer to the national training facility.