Lisa Mansure

My best friends in my life have mainly come from some sort of field hockey connection.  I started playing field hockey when I was in the sixth grade at Radnor Middle School and I played competitively up until four years ago on an adult club team in the Philadelphia area.  In between I played at Radnor High School and competed at the collegiate level at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio earning All Conference First and Second Team Awards as well as MVP and co-captain my senior year.  Recently, I reunited with some college teammates in Cape May, New Jersey and to this day some of my closest friends from my childhood and teenage years were my teammates.  I actually met Joanne because of our hockey backgrounds some twenty years ago and now Joanne and I  coach field hockey together at both the middle and high school level at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA, where I have been teaching and coaching for almost 30 years.  Joanne and I love working together and share so many similarities when it comes to our coaching philosophy.  

All and all, I hope to share my passion for playing field hockey as well as the life lessons I have learned on and off the field.  And, most importantly, I hope to pass on the torch to the next generation of young student-athletes to value the friendships they have made on the field.  Perhaps they will have friendships that will last a lifetime too!    

As Jesse Owens said, “Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition.  Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”