Penn Manor Field Hockey Wins 2025 Lancaster-Lebanon League Championship
Penn Manor Field Hockey Team Beat Warwick 3-1 on Thursday October 16, 2025 at Jane Hoover Field in Elizabethtown.
Here's the Lancaster Online Article and Photos
In 1976, I played as the left back and captained the PM field hockey team. I have fond memories of Coach Jane Hoover during our match against Etown in Elizabethtown. Her powerful voice carried across the field, impossible to miss. My teammates nicknamed me "Trotter," a name coined by Barb Huber from the class of 1975, because my long ponytail would bounce like a pony’s tail as I ran. During one game, I made a circular tackle around an opponent. Coach Hoover’s voice boomed as she shouted to her team, something like, “You’re letting her run circles around you!”
I have many fond memories from playing field hockey at Penn Manor and Millersville University. During my junior year abroad in Marburg, West Germany (as it was then), I continued playing. In Germany, field hockey teams were organized by towns, not universities. Women trained alongside the men’s team - it made us women better players because the men were stronger and faster. It was fun to pass my love for the gam to my daughter Gretchen (class of 1998) who also played field hockey with Penn Manor.
Moving Onto 2025 District III Tournament...
See the bracket below - Penn Manor's first game will be Saturday October 25 2025 at Comet Field Time TBD...
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Sisters Emma and Brooke DeBerdine will be awarded the J Freeland Chryst award at the Lancaster County Sports Hall of Fame banquet tonight (October 22, 2025) at the Eden Resort
Brooke (class of 2017) and Emma (class of 2019) are Penn Manor were All American players at Penn Manor and University of Maryland and both represented the United States at the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Congratulations!
Read the Lancaster County Sports Hall of Fame article here
Another Penn Manor Field Hockey Grad Jill Witmer Funk (class of 2010) was also inducted into the Lancaster County Sports Hall of Fame in 2021.