Sports

It used to be that kids had a limited number of sports or activities to choose from when they were growing up. These days children and their parents can choose from a dizzying array of sports and activities in which to participate - from traditional team sports like football, basketball, baseball and soccer - to extreme sports like bouldering, BMX biking, parasailing.

Boy's Lacrosse Field

Four-time Olympic medalist Angela Ruggiero brings a stellar resume to the position of MomsTeam's ice hockey expert. A native of Los Angeles, California and Harper Woods, Michigan, Angela graduated cum laude with a degree in government from Harvard College, where she was an NCAA First Team Academic All-American, Patty Kasmier Award winner (women's college hockey equivalent of the Hiesman Trophy), as well as one of the top eight student athletes in the entire NCAA in 2004.

Hockey: Pronunciation: \ˈhä-kē\
a game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates whose object is to drive a puck into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick.

Football: Pronunciation: \fut-ˌbol\
any of several games played between two teams on a usu. rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking