At the highest levels of field hockey, players can shoot the ball at nearly 100 mph. Even when it's not moving that fast, a field hockey ball is very hard. Besides courage, goalies need: ...

What I often forget is that these are 13 and 14-year-old kids ... good hockey parent, but all the while my stomach churns. Will my 5-foot-8, 120-pound kid draped in oversized goalie gear that ...

Get to know these masked marvels, what makes them tick, and (perhaps most importantly for the goalie equipment nerds of the world) their gear specs and preferences. We begin the series with ...