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Keeping Up Against All Odds

By Greta Jennison

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Life story/background

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Interview/response about UNE Field Hockey journey (recruitment & career)

Motivation & Story theme: resilience, grit, hard work

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What’s next + Future plans 

Dawn DeWeese Moss of Pittsfield, Maine, had no plans of playing the sport of field hockey, especially not at the college level. But eight years, a championship ring, and a degree later, Dawn has come full circle by taking on the role of an assistant coach here at her alma mater, UNE field hockey.

“I started playing in high school because my friends convinced me, I didn’t expect to end up this good at it”, Dawn remarked. “The team needed another goalie, which looked just silly enough for me to try it.”

She grew up playing a variety of sports like lacrosse, basketball, and track to name a few, but her field hockey journey started somewhat on the later side. Dawn took to the sport and position immediately. Her very first season playing she earned the role of starting GK, overtaking the pre-existing goalie very quickly. 

“I didn’t want to play in college, but my club coach yelling at me for not trying to get recruited lit a fire in me and my mind was changed” She said.

Interview/Response section about recruitment journey and career

What was your recruitment process like?

My recruitment process was definitely different than most people because I was a 2020 senior. All the tournaments I would have normally gone to were cancelled due to Covid, so once I started emailing Coach (UNE Head Coach Danielle Collins), I had to make my own skills video because she needed to see film. Overall, it was a pretty short process because UNE was pretty much the only school I was seriously considering, and they happened to need a GK.

What was your college athletics career like?

My first season, preseason especially, was extremely rough for many reasons. NCAA college pre season is hard on its own, but add on the fact that I was the only GK as a freshman and my mom was really sick at the time, it was unbelievably brutal. I was struggling so bad during quadruple sessions of preseason that coach gave me a session off, which is saying something. From there I was on the come up and played a good bit my freshman and sophomore year, but I officially took the role of starting GK going into my junior season. More…

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Motivation & Story theme: resilience, grit, hard work

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What’s next + Future plans