The Top 50 American scholastic field hockey teams of 2006
Well, here we are again with our compilation of the Top 50 teams after a season of great achievements on the part of many teams. It wasn't as hard to compile as it was in past seasons, where three teams would defeat each other over the course of a year.
As always, we hope that this kind of list encourages athletic directors and coaches help create challenging non-league schedules. And we would also like to see state sanctioning bodies foster better competition by dropping travel limitations and increasing regular-season schedules, especially the suffocating rules set forth in Maryland.
| School | State | Record | Notes | |
| 1 | Kingston Wyoming Seminary | PA | 24-0 | Nation's best midfield controlled all opposition |
| 2 | Voorhees Eastern | NJ | 26-0 | Set school marks for wins, goals scored, won inaugural T of C |
| 3 | Virginia Beach Frank W. Cox | VA | 23-0 | Win in state final brings state title back to Beach |
| 4 | Hummelstown Lower Dauphin | PA | 29-0 | Extremely talented attack should return with a vengeance in '07 |
| 5 | North Caldwell West Essex | NJ | 23-1 | Knights fought well in Tournament of Champions final |
| 6 | Louisville Sacred Heart | KY | 28-0 | Fine goalkeeping and defense led the way for Valkyries |
| 7 | Shrub Oak Lakeland | NY | 25-0 | Had some tough matches early in state tournament |
| 8 | Walpole | MA | 23-0-1 | Porkers have realized all that potential in good senior class |
| 9 | St. Louis Cor Jesu | MO | 21-0-2 | Apart from early adjustments, Chargers were extremely dominant |
| 10 | Carlsbad La Costa Canyon | CA | 24-1 | Emerged victorious after trilogy of matches with Torrey Pines |
| 11 | Garden City | NY | 21-0 | Class B champions ran wild on Long Island |
| 12 | Lakeville Hotchkiss School | CT | 15-0-1 | Bearcats won fifth straight NEPSAC Class A title |
| 13 | Flourtown Mount St. Joseph's | PA | 26-2 | Spunky Magic made great run to AAA final |
| 14 | Skowhegan | ME | 17-0 | Won sixth straight state championship |
| 15 | San Diego Torrey Pines | CA | 22-2 | Fought well for CIF San Diego Section supremacy |
| 16 | Selinsgrove | PA | 25-1 | Quick, well-skilled team was exposed in AA semis by Sem |
| 17 | Canton | MA | 19-0-2 | Coach Brooke Bergmann takes team to title in second season |
| 18 | Emmaus | PA | 24-2 | Hornets were a goal away from defending AAA state title |
| 19 | Stafford | VA | 21-1 | Team with good skills fell a rung short from defending AAA title |
| 20 | Pennsville Upper Perkiomen | PA | 23-3 | Well-skilled Tribe came out early in AAA final vs. Seminary |
| 21 | Newfound Regional | NH | 16-1 | Scored 83 goals on the season, won first state title |
| 22 | Norfolk Maury | VA | 18-5-1 | Commodores didn't have the answers for Cox |
| 23 | Barrington | RI | 18-0 | Road easy after 3OT win over North Kingstown in semis |
| 24 | Durham Academy | NC | 19-0 | Cavaliers vanquished all comers |
| 25 | Severna Park | MD | 17-0-1 | Team came together nicely after Rausch injury |
| 26 | Wilmington Tower Hill | DE | 17-2-1 | Hillers' postseason experience no match for rest of field |
| 27 | Moorestown | NJ | 19-3-1 | Team has come a long way in two years |
| 28 | Gahanna Columbus Academy | OH | 18-1 | After mid-season stumble, had 10 shutouts in 11 games |
| 29 | Lake Forest | IL | 24-3-3 | Bested Oak Park-River Forest 2-1 in overtime |
| 30 | Endwell Maine-Endwell (N.Y.) | NY | 19-1 | Deserved a better fate |
| 31 | Marathon | NY | 24-1 | With C title, Olympians break E. Rochester's unbeaten streak |
| 32 | Lehighton | PA | 23-1 | Coach Shawn Hindy's team is one to watch in 2007 |
| 33 | East Rochester | NY | 19-1-1 | Denied a third straight state title |
| 34 | Greenwich | CT | 21-2 | Outlasted Simsbury (Conn.) 5-2 in Class L final |
| 35 | Greenwich Academy | VA | 18-3-1 | Two of Gators' three losses were to Hotchkiss |
| 36 | Summit Oak Knoll | NJ | 22-2 | First Union County school ever to win state title |
| 37 | San Diego Serra | CA | 20-5-1 | Bested San Diego Westview for sectional title |
| 38 | Belfast | ME | 17-0 | Edged York (Maine) without one of its starting midfielders |
| 39 | Winston-Salem Reynolds | NC | 17-1 | Edged out East Chapel Hill (N.C.) in strokes |
| 40 | East Chapel Hill | NC | 14-3 | Wildcats couldn't put away their chances in final |
| 41 | Hartland Arrowhead | WI | 22-2-1 | Bested University Lakes 2-0 in state final |
| 42 | Ann Arbor Pioneer | MI | 19-0-2 | Edged Huron 2-1 in state final |
| 43 | Englewood Kent Denver | CO | 15-1-1 | Edged Colorado Academy 2-1 in state final |
| 44 | Lebanon | NH | 15-0-3 | Edged Souhegan in first round of penalty corners |
| 45 | Gaithersburg Quince Orchard | MD | 15-2 | Got a splendid overtime goal to win 4A state championship |
| 46 | Souhegan | NH | 16-1-1 | Could have won Class I title in overtime but for a foot |
| 47 | Edgewater South River | MD | 16-4 | Seahawks fall just short of third straight title |
| 48 | Worcester Notre Dame Academy | MA | 20-1-2 | Rebels played extraordinarily well, but fell to Walpole |
| 49 | Fredericksburg Chancellor | VA | 22-1 | Took down Fredericksburg James Monroe (Va.) for AA/A title |
| 50 | Glen Gardner Voorhees | NJ | 18-3-1 | Tough 1-0 loss to Moorestown in Group 2 championship |
AND BEAR IN MIND: Hamburg (Pa.) 20-7, Pocomoke (Md.) 11-3-1, Rising Sun (Md.) 11-5-1, Salem (N.H.) 15-2, Lititz Warwick (Pa.) 24-2-2, Richmond Collegiate (Va.) 18-3, Hereford (Md.) 13-3-1, The Lawrenceville (N.J.) School 11-1-2, Mountain View St. Francis (Calif.) 14-1-4, San Jose Archbishop Mitty (Calif.) 17-0-4, Mameroneck (N.Y.) 19-1-1, Glastonbury (Conn.) 14-1-3, Alexandria St. Stephen's/St. Agnes (Va.) 17-3-1, Providence Moses Brown School (R.I.) 17-0, Wilton (Conn.) 19-1-1, Rye (N.Y.) 19-3, York (Maine) 17-1, Corinth Central (Maine) 13-2-3, North Branford (Conn.) 15-4-1, Oklahoma City Casady School (Okla).
