Upcoming Umpire & Technical Official International Appointments

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Field Hockey is pleased to announce upcoming international appointments for two technical officials and one umpire.

Kim Scott will serve as a technical official at the FIH Indoor Hockey Men’s and Women’s World Cups (IHWC), set to take place in Poreč, Croatia from February 3 to 9. At the FIH Hockey Women’s Nations Cup in Santiago, Chile, taking place from February 23 to March 2, Aaron Dudek has been appointed as a technical official and Allie Mikelson as an umpire.

It was announced this past December that USA will have two representatives involved in the Argentina leg of the 2024-25 FIH Hockey Pro League, set for February 19 to 23 in Santiago del Estero. Maggie Giddens has been appointed as an umpire and Lurah Hess as a technical official. Read more.

In March of 2024, Scott held the prestigious role of technical delegate at the 2024 Indoor Pan American Cups (IPAC) in Calgary, Canada. Scott, an International Elite Panel Technical Official, has served as a judge, technical delegate or technical official for more than 180 international matches. In 2023, she was a technical official at the 2023 IHWC, served as an assistant technical delegate at the 2023 CAC Games in July, and ended the year as a technical official at the 2023 FIH Hockey Women’s Junior World Cup. Other prominent events on Scott’s résumé include various domestic international series and indoor invitationals along with two seasons in the FIH Hockey Pro League.

"Indoor is where it all started for me,” said Scott. “In 2012 I became a technical official to stay deeply connected with the sport that means so much to me. Looking back, never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the amazing friends, experiences, places I would meet and see because of it. I'm grateful for every moment of it and I cannot wait to represent the red, white, & blue at the Indoor World Cup again."

Dudek wrapped up the 2024 circuit at the World Masters Hockey (WMH) World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand in November. An international veteran with more than ten years of experience, Dudek represented USA at the 2024 Junior Pan American Championships (JPAC) in Surrey, Canada this past summer and the 2024 IPAC this past March. He has represented USA at many events over the past decade as a technical official or judge, including the Pan American Cup and FIH Hockey Pro League.

Mikelson concluded her fall season as part of the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship umpire team. Earlier in the year, she umpired at the 2024 JPAC in Surrey, Canada in June and the 2024 IPAC in Calgary, Canada in March. Mikelson had her first international appointment in 2022 when she was selected to represent USA at the Central American and Caribbean Qualifiers in Bermuda and has since umpired several international events. In 2023, she was appointed to JPAC in St. Michael, Barbados, the inaugural Hockey5s Pan American Cup in Kingston, Jamaica, and Nkoski Cup in Cape Town, South Africa. Domestically, she is heavily involved in the college circuit.

"I am extremely excited and grateful for the opportunity to represent the U.S. in the third edition of the Women's Nations Cup,” said Mikelson. “I want to thank my family and my hockey family for their continued support and belief in me. I look forward to the exposure to international hockey across hockey federations to learn, grow and give back to the game that gave me so much."