| ATHLETE OF THE WEEK (click here for past winners) This week the PQSports Athlete of the Week is Mount Carmel Field Hockey Captain Margaret Heck. Margaret is a 4 year starter on the MCHS Field Hockey team and has been co-captain for her Junior and Senior years. Over the years at MCHS, Margaret has proven to be both an excellent two-sport athlete (Field Hockey and Lacrosse) and an exceptional student (she is one of four MCHS National Merit Scholarship semifinalists and she was also accepted to and attended The Harvard Summer School program this past July and August). Mount Carmel's Field Hockey team has faced many challenges over the years. Perhaps the most significant is competing in the tough Palomar League where other schools have mature programs with JV, and in some cases Freshman, Field Hockey squads that develop their talent young. Margaret made a commitment to the success of the MCHS Field Hockey from the time that she was a freshman, and even held tutorials last year at Black Mountain Middle School after school in effort to develop interest in the sport with the aspiring RP girls nearing high school, even when Mount Carmel has not yet been able to field a JV Field Hockey team. Margaret's commitment has never wavered over the past couple of years, although the wins have been tough to come by in a very difficult conference. She invested herself to help teach the sport of Field Hockey to the young team, and even the new coach. She continually tried to improve herself through participation in the U.S. Field Hockey Futures program and to improve her team by organizing voluntary off-season practices. Halloween marked Margaret's and the other MCHS Field Hockey seniors last home game…a hard fought loss to Westview. As this Field Hockey season ends, Margaret and the entire MCHS Field Hockey team deserve to be acknowledged for battling adversity against formidable odds and competing hard in each and every game. Feel free to give Margaret and the rest of the team a shout-out on the message boards. If you know of an athlete in the PQ community deserving of athlete of the week honors, please email your nomination to chris@pqsports.com. Your athlete can be a senior pitcher or a 5 year-old soccer player that scored his/her first goal...we want to hear about them all! |
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