Every team likes to win games. The best teams, however, will forgo record-padding matchups and seek out the best opposition. That is why Greene’s field hockey team scheduled a midseason game against perennial Section IV champion Marathon – a team that has regularly beaten the Trojans in recent years.
Sue Carlin, longtime coach of Greene, had no real problem with her team’s 3-2 setback to the Olympians this past Thursday. Even though it was her team’s first loss in nine contests, she saw the light at the end of the tunnel. “Marathon is a quality team, and we need games like this if we want to be successful in the postseason,” she said. “Our team isn’t learning anything beating clubs 7-0.”
Perhaps it is that sort of attitude that has regularly situated the Trojans in the postseason mix the past 25 years, and has led to five New York state field hockey championships.

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