’ ’ - ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ - ’ - ’ - — — ’ The int A T H L E T I C S PROFILE Maddie Kahn ’23 Named Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year as a sophomore, Maddie Kahn fnished second in the nation in both save percentage (87.9) and saves per game (7.25) while her 1.01 goals against average was 11th best. She followed that up by helping Lehigh feld hockey record its frst winning season in nearly 30 years as a junior. Kahn has been named to three U.S. national teams U17, U19 and U21 and played in South Africa at the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Women s Junior World Cup in South Africa this past spring. MAJOR: Management WHAT’S YOUR DREAM JOB? I would really like to work in a pro sports organization. Sports have played such a big role in my life, and I just really enjoy them. So, in a business management-type role or something like that. I’m not really sure what I want specifcally, but I would really enjoy working in a sports organization, whether it s MLB, the NFL, the NHL, their affliate teams, whatever. Just being in that type of environment would be enjoyable for me. WHAT’S YOUR PROUDEST ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT? Being selected into the USA feld hockey pipeline. Every time I get named to one of the USA teams, it s a big accomplish ment for me. I kind of group them all together. Getting into the pipeline and staying in it is, I think, pretty cool and not something that many people get to say that they’re doing, especially not many Patriot League players. IS IT JUST AS SPECIAL EACH TIME YOU’RE ON A U.S. NATIONAL TEAM? Yeah, I would say so. The coaching staff changes when you go through the different teams, and they look for different styles and different things. So it s defnitely just as special getting named each time. It s not expected for me. I don’t go to these things and expect to be named all the time just because I was able to accomplish that previously. It s defnitely just as special each time getting the press release and seeing my name on there. YOU WERE ON SPORTSCENTER’S TOP 10 PLAYS TWICE IN SIX MONTHS. DID YOU EVER THINK YOU’D MAKE IT ONCE? (Laughs) No, I think that s a bucket list item for so many people. It s funny because I didn’t even know I was on it either time. I woke up at a normal time to my alarm to go to class, and I had texts on my phone, ‘We saw you on SportsCenter! It was so cool!’ But it s something that I never thought was going to happen. Not many people know what feld hockey is. It s kind of in the shadows when you’re looking at the sports community as a whole. So it s really interesting to be put on that. It s defnitely really cool. And both times Justin [Lafeur, senior assistant director, Lehigh sports communications] did a great job putting in for it. So a lot of credit to him for even getting me on there. YOU JUST GOT BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA. HOW WAS THAT EXPERIENCE? It was awesome. It was my frst opportunity to play internationally. I went to Germany with the U19s, and before our frst game, I ended up tearing my meniscus. In South Africa, they put me in the frst game versus Netherlands [the eventual champions] for the second half. … The U.S. team is great. I’ve known a lot of the girls for a while now, and just getting to spend that much time with them in such a dif ferent environment is a really cool experience for sure. … And just getting to say that I’ve been to South Africa, that I’ve been to Africa, is crazy. And getting to interact with other teams at the tournament is really cool as well. LEHIGH FIELD HOCKEY HAD ITS FIRST WINNING SEASON IN ALMOST 30 YEARS. HOW DID IT FEEL BEING THE GOALKEEPER FOR THAT TEAM? It s defnitely an exciting feeling to get some buzz around our program and have other people start to notice and kind of take Lehigh more seriously as a feld hock ey school. Each win that we got, we really had to fght for. There wasn’t a single game that we went into thinking we were automatically going to win that game. … Putting that all together and totaling the 11 wins that we had is defnitely a great thing to look at. If you look at the past three years that I’ve been here, it shows that there s been a lot of progress in such a short amount of time. erview continues online at The interview continues at go . kahn .lehigh.edu/ka . go.lehigh edu/ C H R I S T A N E U 1 6 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N 1 6 | L E H I G H B U L L E T I N
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