Recruitment Blog

My name is Lilly Fellows, the founder of Just4Everyone Athletics, and I had an untraditional recruitment experience. In high school, I couldn't afford to play club sports, but my high school field hockey team was good. I was the lead scorer four years in a row and won all-state honors my senior year. When I asked my coach about playing in college, she laughed and said I would never be able to- I didn't play club. In my senior year, we had a new assistant coach with experience

I had a daughter who was recruitable for field hockey. I figured this out early in her high school career - 7th grade. As she discovered that she had the potential and desire to play in college, this created a series of challenges. Challenge 1: We needed to figure out what being recruited would look like within our family's balance. We were lucky enough to have a couple of older teammates who were being recruited or playing at local colleges. I spent a good bit of game time

Hi! I'm Karlie Guimond, one of the researchers behind the recruitment project in Just4Everyone Athletics. This project is so special to me, and I'm so happy Lilly asked me to join back in 2022. While my story is not as unconventional as Lilly's, it is still different than most field hockey athletes. In ninth grade, I told my parents that I loved field hockey and couldn't imagine myself not playing past high school. I had a great role model in my friend and teammate, who was g

I am so thankful for the opportunity to play both Field Hockey and Lacrosse in college while earning a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. While it has been a challenging experience being a dual-sport athlete and completing a time-intensive major, it is one of the most rewarding experiences and more doable than I thought it would be. When I started looking at colleges, I knew I wanted to play field hockey and get an engineering degree (I did not plan on playing lacrosse at fi