A trio of Richmond Field Hockey Club standouts are wearing Team B.C. colours this summer.
Dakota Chan, Rachel Kwan and Delaney Booker all earned the opportunity to represent their province following a lengthy evaluation process which began back in December.
Chan, who is entering her Grade 9 year at McMath secondary in September, helped B.C. win silver at last weekend’s U16 National Championships at Rutledge Field in West Vancouver.
She finished the tournament with three goals and multiple assists as B.C. went 5-1 in round-robin play and lost 2-0 to Ontario in the championship game as the hosts ran into excellent goalkeeping.
Chan, who was playing for the second time in the provincial team program, plays at the club level for the RFHC’s U14 Eagles.
Kwan and Booker will be heading to Calgary next week for the U18 Nationals.
Booker graduated in June and suited up for the RFHC’s U18 Owls in the spring season. She hopes to continue her career at the University of Victoria this fall. Booker became the first Richmond player in recent memory to be invited to a three-day national team development camp back in May at UBC.
Kwan, 17, will be making her provincial team debut next week. She played for the RFHC’s U17 Pelicans this past spring. She will be entering Grade 12 at McMath next month.
All three girls were initially selected to Field Hockey B.C.’s regional training program that ran from December to April. Also selected to the U15 Train-to-Train regional program with Chan were Kate Schmidt, Klara Marsh and Maya Rosser of the U14 Eagles and Georgia Booker of the U15 Finches.
