Daily News | ‘I want to see how far I can go’, UNC commit Ashley Sessa has eyes set on becoming an Olympian
Ashley Sessa is photographed on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, during a field hockey clinic at Norristown High School in Norristown, Pa. Sessa, who is a recent graduate of Episcopal Academy. She plays at UNC and has 11 caps with Team USA.Four-year-old Ashley Sessa begged her parents to let her play football after watching her older brother’s game. It got to the point where Sessa darted onto the football field in the middle of a game because she was tired of sitting on the benches.
Tracey Sessa needed to find a summer camp for 8-year-old Ashley to go to while Tracey was at work. Searching on Google, Sessa’s mother found the WC Eagles facility in Chester County. The nation’s top-ranked club team was 15 minutes away from their home in Limerick, making it an easy decision to enroll Ashley.
Sessa then joined the WC Eagles’ indoor U10 team and never looked back. She started training two to three days a week, spending three hours at practice. After practice, Sessa would come home and pick up her stick again to do pulls in her backyard. “I took her to see the [USA] women’s team play against Argentina,” Tracey Sessa said. “She saw her idol Katie Bam play and that was it. ... She wanted to play for her country, and she set her sights on that goal.”
In eighth grade, Sessa had colleges reaching out to her. She committed to North Carolina in the spring of her freshman year at Spring-Ford High School. Sessa then transferred that summer to Episcopal Academy because of the field hockey program and the flexibility to miss school to travel with the national team.
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