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She also competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where Team United States of America finished in eighth and last position. She finished her high school career with 171 goals, second all-time.
She also competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where Team United States of America finished in eighth and last position. She finished her high school career with 171 goals, second all-time.
A former street hockey player on Long Island, she became a force on her high school field hockey team for Centereach Cougars. She was the last of four sisters — Dana, Jill and Lauren were the others — who were all team captains. Fuchs scored 82 goals her senior year, the National Federation record.
She went to the University of Connecticut where she paid the Huskies immediate dividends, winning an National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in her second season.
She was named United States of America Field Hockey"s Athlete of the Year in 1990 and 1995. She and the rest of the national-team pool prepared for an entire year in Atlanta before the 1996 Olympics.
The team finished sixth. She missed the 2002 World Cup because of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The United States. team was stranded in the United States of America while the rest of the teams were in France.
This sent Fuchs and the American team on a five-continent, 10,000-mile journey to earn the 16th and final qualification place for the World Cup. Fuchs was capped 269 times over 17 years, scoring 69 goals. She is now the head field hockey coach at Northwestern University and was on the coaching staff for Team United States of America at the 2006 World Cup in Madrid.