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Te school year started with strict COVID-19


protocols and without the team’s usual fall season, where players typically get acclimated to each other and bond over team dinners and gatherings. Instead, Short had to figure out locker room spacing and seating charts for the bus, to provide social distancing. When students returned from winter break, several team members tested positive for the coronavirus, starting a domino progression of quarantines. Masteran said players were getting tested for the virus three or four times a week. “We really pride ourselves on being such a unit and becoming a family, and that helped our success in games,” Short said. “And so that was just a little bit more difficult than our usual years, because the only time we did see each other face-to-face was at practices.” Ten Short had a baby in January and went on maternity leave for about four weeks, and Assistant Coach Maggie Auslander, who had just been hired in November 2020, suddenly was in charge of the squad. “She hadn’t even met the team yet,” Short explained. Despite all of this, there was a moment amid the


adversity, Masteran said, when it clicked that the team would have to “switch gears.” Tey knew if they wanted to better the Final Four appearance they had in 2019, this was the only way. “Once we figured out that we didn’t want our entire


season to be that way, we took everything really seriously,” she said. “No one wanted to lose another season.” Tat focus led the Royals to their first finals appearance in school history, where they found themselves down by nine at halftime. “I think it had to do with our nerves, and we just weren’t able to collect ourselves,” Masteran said. After the team “had a really good chat at halftime,”


according to Short, “we came out on fire in the second half, and we were definitely playing to our game plan.” In the end, Queens simply ran out of time to make up the difference. Te Royals came up short in a 14-12 loss. However, the whole


experience—the difficult season, the finals appearance and the narrow loss—was inspiring to the team for the upcoming season. Said Masteran, “I think everyone is extremely motivated to get right back to where we were last year.”


BESSANT FIELD SELECTED AS INTERIM TRAINING SITE FOR U.S. WOMEN’S FIELD HOCKEY NATIONAL TEAM


Following a year-long search, USA Field Hockey announced that Bessant Field, part of the Queens Sports Complex at Marion Diehl Park, would be the team’s new interim training facility. On National Field Hockey Day in mid-September, Bank of America Vice Chair, Global Strategy and USA Field Hockey Board of Directors Chair, Catherine P. Bessant, and Queens President, Daniel G. Lugo, officially welcomed the U.S. Women’s National Team to Charlotte. The Queens Sports Complex, one of the largest athletic


venues in the region, offers a world-class, multi-sport turf championship field, indoor training amenities, athletic training facilities, a 13-court tennis center, a 14,000-square- foot conference center and more. In addition, Bessant Field offers Charlotte’s only water-based turf facility, a field hockey training requirement. After adding field hockey to its list of NCAA-sponsored sports officially in 2016, Queens dedicated the field in Spring 2019 in honor of Bessant, who along with her family, contributed the lead/naming gift for its construction. The Royals went on to win their first South Atlantic Conference Carolinas Regular Season Championship later that year. The U.S. Women’s National Team is a centralized program,


comprised of 20 full-time athletes and 10 alternate NCAA Division I field hockey players. Goalkeeper Kealsie Robles is also a member of the Royals’ field hockey coaching staff. Bessant Field is currently home to the Royals, Myers


Park High School field hockey and Charlotte Ambush Field Hockey Club. The addition of USA Field Hockey helps achieve the university’s vision to create a centralized complex for all players of all abilities.


KYLEIGH MASTERAN ’21 7 —Phylicia Short


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