American field hockey began in pockets of the East, but has very few adherents in the Deep South. Whether it is because of the aggressiveness of the sport or the unwillingness of athletic directors to expand their girls' athletic curriculum to add the sport, the game's growth has been stunted in a very important area of the nation. Here is a series of stories of success stories with a Southern flavor.
* The University of the South in Tennessee has been on the cusp of greatness in the late 1990s.
* Melissa Moore has been a figure in South Carolina field hockey for some 30 years.