Athlete Bio#
Age
21
Hometown
Santa Rosa Valley, CA
Education
Westlake High School, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
World Championship Experience
- Bronze - 2021 Junior Pan American Championship (Santiago, Chile)
- 4th - 2024 Junior Pan American Championship (Surrey, Canada)
- 4th - 2023 Junior Pan American Championship (St. Michael, Barbados)
- 15th - 2021 FIH Odisha Hockey Men's Junior World Cup (Bhubaneswar, India)
- 2025 FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2 (Muscat, Oman)
Career Highlights
- 2024: Series against Chile (Santiago, Chile)
- 2023: Named to U.S. Men's National Team (September)
- 2023: With the Juniors, Five Rivers Tournament (Glendale, Ariz.)
- 2022: Named to U.S. Men's National Team (September)
- 2022: Named to U.S. U-21 Men's National Team (September)
- 2022: 4-Nations Tournament Reserve (Glasgow, Scotland), Recorded first cap on June 30 against Ireland, Series against U-21 Austria (Vienna, Austria)
- 2021: U-22 Young Men's National Championship (Virginia Beach, Va), 3-Nations Series (Moorpark, Calif.)
- 2021: Named to U.S. U-21 Men's National Team (July)
- 2020: Series against Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- 2020: Named to the U.S. U-18 Men's National Team
- 2020: Named to the U.S. U-18 Men's National Team
- 2019: Series against Chile (Santiago, Chile), Series against Canada (Moorpark, Calif.)
- 2019: Named to the U.S. U-21 Men's National Team (June)
- 2018: Series against U-16 Chile (Santiago, Chile), U-15 Canada National Championship (Toronto, Canada)
- 2018: Named to the U.S. U-16 Men's National Team (July)
- 2017: Named to the U.S. U-15 Men's National Team (August)
- 2017: Named to the U.S. U-16 Men's National Team (February)
Personal
Son of Mitch and Eva Katz...Has two siblings, Corey and Jackson...Favorite Sports Quote: "In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take." - Lewis Carroll...Best Words of Advice: "Always play the 100 percent pass." - Paul Singh...Year Joined Junior USMNT: 2015More #
Katz started playing field hockey through his private school, Carden. He then grew to love it over time with his first club Bulldogs and then the Roadrunners.