The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/field_hockey/page/4/)
Michael Jordan never played an NBA game without his Tarheel shorts underneath his Bulls uniform. Tim Robbins character in Bull Durham wore women’s undergarments while pitching. From fiction to reality, sports is littered with athletes who have all kinds of weird superstitions. The range is as wide as it is deep, spanning all levels of teams and athletes around the world.
The women’s field hockey team will look to get back to its winning ways tomorrow night when it plays host to visiting Yale at 7 p.m. inside Schoellkopf Stadium.
Despite coming off its first loss of the season, a 2-0 defeat to Vermont last Sunday, the Red is off to its best start in program history, boasting a 4-1 overall mark and perfect 2-0 conference record. Yale will take the field with a less impressive, 1-5, 0-1 Ivy record, however, Cornell head coach Donna Hornibrook feels as if Yale’s one-win record isn’t reflective of its team talent.
Senior attacker Sarah Miller (7) makes a play on a ball at midfield in a game earlier this season.