Field Hockey Coach To Assist U.S. National Team
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
January 13, 1999
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State field hockey coach Michele Madison has been named to the coaching staff of the U.S. National Team. Madison will serve as an assistant coach for the 18-player National squad that will form the basis for the team that will represent the U.S. at the XIII Pan American Games, July 24-Aug. 8, in Winnipeg, Canada.
"I am extremely honored to coach the U.S. National Team," Madison said. "This opportunity to coach the nation's elite field hockey players with Carina Benniga, one of the world's distinguished coaches, will surely be an invaluable coaching experience."
Madison, who has guided the Spartan field hockey program for six years, is one of three assistants on the staff. Her main duties will be working with the National Team goalies.
Prior to the Pan American Games, the U.S. National Team will host Canada and Chile in February at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in San Diego before traveling to Spain to take on the Spanish National Team in April. The team will then get a sneak preview of the Pan American Games venue in June with a four-nation tournament in Winnipeg in preparation for July's Games.
Madison has received extensive coaching assignments at the elite level. Last summer she assisted England's National Team at the USA Invitational Tournament in Springfield, Mass., and the World Cup in Utrect, Netherlands.
She served as an assistant coach on the Olympic coaching staff at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, Ga., after spending two and a half years on the coaching staff for the National Team. Madison was also an assistant coach for the U.S. National Field Hockey Team that won a bronze medal at the 1994 World Cup in Dublin, Ireland.