Fall sports are underway and Michigan field hockey takes the field Friday night against North Carolina.

This is a rematch of last year's national championship game, short offseason.

We're right back at it.

And coach Pancrats is here to talk to us about the challenges and the bright future that this field hockey team has here on

Conquering Heroes.

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This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's your host, John Jansen.

We are fired up.

We are off and running with the fall sports here at the University of Michigan.

And to kick things off, last week, we had Athletic Director Ward

Manual this week, head coach, Michigan Field Hockey, Marsha Pancratz. Coach, are you fired up?

Are your players ready?

Yeah, we're getting there. Yeah, definitely fired up. It's been a quick turnaround since we

finished our season late May because of COVID.

Normally we're a fall sport, but we played a full schedule last spring.

And so the girls didn't get a lot of time off, but they're ready to get after it again.

So I'll start there then. How did you squeeze an entire off season into basically just a summer?

When you normally have, six seven months now you

were left with about three yeah it's certainly tricky i mean that you know since we're in the

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