Wolverine Quartet to Play in Junior Pan Am Championship
8/19/2021 4:19:00 PM | Field Hockey
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Four members of the University of Michigan field hockey team will participate in the 2021 Junior Pan American Championship, slated for Aug. 21-28 at the Prince of Wales Country Club. Seniors Kathryn Peterson and Sofia Southam and freshman Abby Tamer will represent the United States, while sophomore Pilar Oliveros is on the Uruguayan junior team.
Uruguay and Canada kick off the women's competition at noon EDT on Saturday (Aug. 21), while Team USA opens play against host Chile at noon EDT on Sunday (Aug. 22). The field is broken into two three-team pools and will play two pool matchups, a crossover semifinals before the gold- and bronze-medal matchups at 10 a.m. and noon EDT, respectively, on Saturday, Aug. 28.
For more information about the Junior Pan American Championship, including live stream links, visit USA Field Hockey or the Pan American Hockey Federation websites.
The Junior Pan American Championship is an international junior field hockey competition for men and women organized by the PAHF. Typically for under-21 athletes, the 2021 event's age cap was bumped to 22 to accommodate the pause in competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The women's tournament started in 1988. Argentina has won seven of the eight events, while the USA won in 2008. The top three women's teams will qualify for the 2021 FIH Junior Hockey World Cup.
Four Wolverines previously competed for Team USA at the Junior Pan Am Championship. April Fronzoni and Kristi Gannon contributed to a runner-up finish in 2000, while Mary Fox and Lori Hillman earned silver with the 2005 U.S. squad.
Oliveros, Southam, Peterson and Tamer will miss U-M's season-opening weekend at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge next Friday and Sunday (Aug. 28-29) in Iowa City, Iowa.
