Background
Kayla grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania.
Kayla grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania.
Now living in San Diego, California, she was a student of the Indiana University, where she played for the Hoosiers, and was the first player from that university to make the United States National Field Hockey team She represented the United States of America at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Growing up, Kayla did not find her sporting love in field hockey, but in soccer instead.
lieutenant was not until high school that she picked up her first field hockey stick.
The field hockey coach of the high school saw her playing and immediately wanted her on the team Throughout the year, the coached constantly asked her to consider playing field hockey instead, but Kayla did not want anything to do with lieutenant
Finally, after persisting, Kayla decided to play field hockey and after that moment she realized she had made a good choice. She immediately fell in love with lieutenant
From then on out she excelled at the sport and played at the top of her team
After graduating from Hamburg Area High School, she made her way onto Indiana University"s team After playing on the team for four years, in the last couple months of her senior year, she got asked to join the United States National Field Hockey Team. After that, she made her way to San Diego, California, to start to train alongside of the team
This is where she grew into the field hockey player she is today.
The team first qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Alongside of her team, her whole family made the trip over to support her in her dreams.
Throughout the following four years they trained harder so they would be able to go to the 2012 Olympics in London, England. They did just that. Her family again was there to support them on.
During the games, they did beat their biggest rival team, Argentina.
A few months after the Olympics, Kayla decided it was time to hang up the shoes and retire. She retired with over 100 international appearances. 2006 – World Cup Qualifier, Rome (4th)
2006 – World Cup, Madrid (6th)
2007 – Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro (2nd)
2008 – Summer Olympics (8th).