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Wayland Field Hockey Team Is Coed And Not Everybody’s Cheering
Wayland is the only team in its league with boys, and – because of that – both the team and its coach of 18 years are getting a lot of flak
CONCORD, MA — In the first round of the high school field hockey playoff tournament Thursday afternoon, Wayland beat Wakefield 2-1. And both of Wayland’s goals were scored by boys on the team.
At the international and even Olympic level, men’s’ field hockey teams are everywhere. But in American youth sports, field hockey is typically played by girls.
That changed at Wayland High School this year, when Ethan Betancourt, his brother Zeke and his friend Aidan Chitkara joined the varsity team. None of them played a fall sport, and they had talked for years about trying field hockey, even spending all summer practicing for tryouts.
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