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CONSTANTLY COMPETING: FIELD HOCKEY look huge. Health Benefits Field hockey can improve your body a lot. For example, your agility, speed, endurance, muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, and balance. Field hockey can help burn calories and energy too. As you can see, field hockey improves your health A LOT. After that, field hockey helps improve your organs a lot. If you play field hockey, it improves your mental strength by getting forced to do things outside your comfort zone. Field Hockey also boosts your brain and improves your breathing. When playing field hockey, you get a good cardio workout by doing hard running and interval training ( Which is when you alternate from jogging to sprinting.) CENTRE VS. FERRUM FH.MUM1, DSC_0920, TAKEN SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 When you’re playing on a field, you have to talk to your teammates so it improves your communication. If you play field hockey, you can meet new people and make friends. Also, field hockey improves your teamwork. “ My favorite players are my teammates because they help me and challenge me to get better,” Samantha Cho, a travel field hockey player stated. SUMMER CAMPS K.M. KLEMENCIC, DSC_0956, FLICKR, TAKEN JUNE 19, 2013 History First, most historians believe that field hockey comes from northern Europe, specifically Great Britain and France where field hockey was a summer sport. Field hockey has experienced its greatest level of success in India, Hong Kong, Egypt, New Zealand, and USA. Field hockey is a very old sport . CENTRE COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY Field hockey was invented from the idea of ice hockey. The first stick was invented between 1852-1856. Field hockey took its form in the 1800s FH.MUM1, DSC_0044, TAKEN OCTOBER 1,2013 -64-