New Chair & Vice Chair Appointments to USA Field Hockey Board of Directors

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Following the recent January meeting, USA Field Hockey’s Board of Directors has elected a new Chair and Vice Chair. Chip Rogers will serve as the Chair of the Board and Katelyn Ginolfi will serve as the Vice Chair of the Board, starting immediately, both for two-year terms.

“I am delighted to welcome Chip and Katelyn to the leadership positions on the Board,” said Simon Hoskins, USA Field Hockey’s Executive Director. “They have a huge passion for field hockey and have been so involved and engaged in our programs over many years.”

Rogers, who first joined the Board in 2019 and previously served as the Vice Chair (2019-2021), is a familiar name in the field hockey world. He has worked, volunteered, commentated, played, coached, officiated and judged within the sport for more than 40 years.

Rogers lives in Oxford, Ohio, and is the current associate head coach at Miami University, a position he has held since 2011. Over the past 13 years, the RedHawks have captured nine regular season and eight tournament championships during that span, including seven-straight regular season championships. Miami has also won every MAC Tournament, dating back to 2017. Also in 2017 he took his coaching expertise to an international event when he served as the assistant coach of Venezuela Men’s Team at the Pan American Cup in Pennsylvania.

Rogers has 55 international caps as a judge or technical official across indoor, outdoor, junior and senior divisions of the sport. He is always a presence at domestic international series, but some notable events he attended were the men’s 2017 FIH Hockey World League 2 (judge) in Trinidad and Tobago, men’s and women’s 2018 South American Games (technical official) in Bolivia and men’s and women’s 2021 Indoor Pan American Cup (technical official) in Pennsylvania. A veteran umpire, Rogers obtained his Level III rating in 2008 and has umpired extensively at both the high school and college levels, including several NCAA Tournament games. He was named the Umpire of the Year in Southwest Ohio seven times and serves as the rules interpreter for numerous boards.

As an athlete, Rogers still picks up a stick and plays within the U.S. Men’s Masters program. He represented USA at the 2014 and 2018 Masters World Cups and in 2023 captained the O-50 Men’s squad at the Pan American Continental Cup. He has also played for several clubs, including the London Royals, Cincinnati Centurions, Nashville, Tidewater, and Greenwich Field Hockey Clubs.

In addition, Rogers is one of the foremost authorities on field hockey history in the United States. He maintained all statistics and records for Divisions I, II and III from 1997 to 2008, until the NCAA took over, and is the author of the statistics manual. Rogers is the administrator of the fieldhockeycorner.com website, which has been used by coaches, players and fans as a resource for schedules, results, rankings, statistics and polls for all three divisions of NCAA field hockey for the past 18 years. 
A long-time contributor to the sport, Rogers has served on multiple committees both nationally and internationally, including chairing the National Grow the Game Committee, Adult Task Force, and Succeed Internationally Task Force for USA Field Hockey.
Rogers has served the national coaching organization through his service as the First Vice President of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association from 2012 to 2016 and as the Director of Emerging Programs, a committee formed to encourage and develop new field hockey programs throughout the United States, from 2010 to 2012. He has served as the National Chair of the Honda Collegiate Sports Award Committee and the National All-American Committee and has served on multiple other committees for the organization. 

“I have been so fortunate to have had the chance to share [field] hockey with so many people over the course of my life, and the opportunity to give back to the sport while serving as a member of the USA Field Hockey Board of Directors has been an amazing experience,” commented Rogers. “Now, to be asked to chair that board is an incredible honor.”

“While it is daunting to think I am tasked with continuing the work started by Helen Krumbhaar and Henry Greer, I am thankful that we not only have an amazing Board of Directors but also a pantheon of people around the country willing to work to keep USA Field Hockey moving forward.”

Rogers continued, “We are excited to build on our international success and expand upon that; create new experiences as hockey expands across the country, reaching new places and people, and inspire our members, both our current ones as well as future stakeholders, to put on that jersey and share in that movement. Together, we will leave our collective jersey in a better place.”

Ginolfi, who was elected to the Board in December and recently started her term, will serve as the Vice Chair. A former athlete with one of the most decorated playing careers for the U.S. Women’s National Team, the three-time Olympian competed in 261 international matches for Team USA.

She grew up in Landenberg, Pa. and joined the USWNT in 2005, when she was just 15 years old, and instantly earned respectful recognition as a wise athlete beyond her years. She was a four-year letter winner at St. Marks High School and played for the club team, Strikers. When she was just a senior in high school, Ginolfi was selected to the roster to compete at the 2006 Hockey World Cup in Madrid, Spain. As the youngest USA athlete named at just 17 years old, she aided in the USWNT’s sixth place finish.

Ginolfi played collegiately at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a four-year starter and two-time captain. She helped lead the Tar Heels to two NCAA National Championships (2007, 2009), two NCAA Runner-Ups (2010, 2011) and two Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) titles (2007, 2011), along with many personal accolades.

After her freshman fall season, she took the spring semester off to train with the USWNT full-time and helped the squad qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. She missed the start of her sophomore season after being named to the Olympic roster.

In Ginolfi’s senior college season she helped USA to a gold medal and Olympic berth at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. She did this all while playing with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) to shut down Argentina’s top player in the final. The victory was USA’s first over perennial power Argentina since 1987 and her performance earned her Player of the Game honors. She was also named to the 2011 World All-Star team, the only USA player on the 18-member squad, and nominated for the 2011 FIH Young Player of the Year Award.

After college and less than five months after surgery to repair her ACL, Ginolfi moved to the West Coast to train with the USWNT full-time in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. She was selected to represent USA and following a disappointing finish, Team USA bounced back a few months later at the Champions Challenge I in Dublin, Ireland earning silver.

In 2013, she was on the squad that helped USA place at the FIH Hockey World League Semifinals, which earned them a 2014 Rabobank Hockey World Cup berth. Ginolfi was integral in the squad’s inspirational performance in the Netherlands beating higher world ranked teams and outlasting Australia in a semifinal shootout but narrowly missed out on a medal against their Pan American rivals, claiming fourth.

Mimicking their 2011 performance, Ginolfi was part of the USA team that went undefeated at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, securing the squad qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This was followed up by a fifth-place finish at the FIH Hockey World League Semifinals before a shocker of a performance at the 2016 Hockey Champions Trophy in London, England. As the lowest world ranked team, Ginolfi assisted in impressive victories as well as a shootout win over Australia in the 3rd-4th place game to earn USA a medal. Continuing with that momentum, USA impressed the world that August at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games earning a historical fifth place finish.

Her expertise and leadership were integral in the USWNT’s gold-medal finish at the 2017 FIH Hockey World League Semifinals in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the team officially qualified for the 2018 Vitality Women’s Hockey World Cup in London. She retired from the USWNT in May 2018.

Ginolfi currently resides in San Diego, Calif., with her husband Jon, a former USMNT athlete, their daughter Pearl and soon-to-be new baby. She currently works for Insmed as a therapeutic specialist in rare pulmonary disease.

“I am truly honored to have been named to the USA Field Hockey Board of Directors, let alone be appointed as the vice chair,” commented Ginolfi. “To a sport has given me so much, I could not find myself more humbled to give back. The strides that both USA Field Hockey and the Board have made over the past few years have been inspirational, and I have no doubt we will continue to work and strive to move the sport and organization forward.”

“With the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games set to take place on home soil, there is a platform to continue to build on the international success of our senior programs along with expand on many initiatives that follow the mission. I look forward to being an integral part of this next phase of USA Field Hockey.”

Hoskins added, "I want to give a huge thank you to Cathy and Jeanne who have given so much time and energy these past years. I also want to congratulate them both for the work they have done to engage the sport at every level and leave it in a better place.”

USA Field Hockey extends its congratulations to both Rogers and Ginolfi as well as its gratitude to Cathy Bessant and Jeannie O’Brien as the baton of leadership is passed.