The Hun College of Princeton (N.J.) has a reasonably good discipline hockey custom over time, enjoying within the NJSIWAA, competing for titles, and in 1992, enjoying a big public college in Princeton Junction West Windsor-Plainsboro (N.J.) to an extra time draw to share the Mercer County Match title.
Hun has despatched gamers to good faculties and age-group nationwide groups previously. One alumna, a goalie named Meris Burton, was the starter for the US at a Junior World Cup within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
Hun had a number of its success again then enjoying on a grass pitch close to the Stony Brook which cuts throughout the sting of campus. As such, it was a troublesome place to play on as a result of it wouldn’t dry out very properly after even a minor bathe, making it a minor miracle that the Raiders performed in addition to they did.
However when Hun put a synthetic grass pitch on their soccer stadium greater than a decade in the past, that was an absolute game-changer. Hun now plies its commerce within the Mid-Atlantic Prep League, alongside the likes of Pottstown Hill College (Pa.), the best crew within the nation the final couple of years.
At this time, Hun goes to do one thing that not even Hill has carried out: the Raiders are in Dublin, Eire enjoying a preseason pleasant on the nationwide hockey stadium. I’ve not been in a position to discern precisely who the opposition is, but it surely hardly issues.
What issues is the cultural interactions that head coach Tracey Larson Arndt and her crew members could have whereas visiting. And it’s a distinctive expertise, as a result of worldwide competitors for American scholastic discipline hockey groups is exceedingly uncommon. I bear in mind when gamers from a Scottish crew got here and had been hosted by one of many native Mercer County groups.
I additionally bear in mind happening to Virginia Seashore early on this web site’s lifecycle to see a South African crew play within the Solar Satan Invitational. It was attention-grabbing that, within the remaining recreation, the guests from St. Mary’s College in Johannesburg would ultimately put three of its gamers on the South African nationwide crew. The opposition, from East Chapel Hill (N.C.), would have future nationwide teamer Michelle Kasold.
Since then, I’ve solely heard of a few groups, largely from northern states, who’ve gone over the border into Canada to play whereas I’ve been operating this web site. One such crew is Buffalo Nichols College (N.Y.), which performs its league matches within the CISAA towards groups in Ontario.
Apparently sufficient, one of many groups that Nichols beat a yr in the past on the best way to a 26-1 report was The Hun College.
Humorous how these narratives weave collectively.
