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LAKEVIEW:<\/strong> When most university students go away to college, it usually means they\u2019ve left family behind in their home community they call home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the case of Chloe Sinnott, as she looks ahead to heading to York University in Ontario beginning this fall, she will have a lot of family in the area to call on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sinnott, a Lakeview product who attends Sackville High School, announced she committed to the field hockey team at York. She will be studying communications to one day become a sports broadcaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She began looking at universities across Canada during her Grade 11 year. It was key for Sinnott that they had a great field hockey program, plus a good communications program. Sinnott had interest from York; Guelph; Waterloo; and St. Mary\u2019s University in Halifax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI talked to my provincial coach with the N.S. team about all of the schools that I was interested in,\u201d said Sinnott. \u201cShe reached out to the schools and three of them (SMU, Guelph, and York) responded to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sinnott, who is a country music fan, spoke with the coach from York via phone. He setup a zoom conversation with the Lions team captain, who also plays on the Canadian Junior Olympic team, something she aspires to do one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe field hockey program they have is exactly what I wanted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By committing to York University, Sinnott was told she was the first-ever Atlantic Canadian to go to York to play field hockey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat was a pretty cool thing to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The interest in Field Hockey all began in Grade 7 when Sinnott was a student at Leslie Thomas Junior High in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was the first time I had ever heard of the sport,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was just a weekend long tournament, and I really loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI really started to love the sport when I started at Grade 9 at Sackville High.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July 2020, the N.S. team was to go to nationals in Ontario where she would have asked the coaches to come watch her play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe couldn\u2019t do that because of COVID19, so I sent videos of me playing to them to see if they liked my performance,\u201d said Sinnott, who enjoys math and Phys Ed. in school. \u201cThat was hard because the videos were all of indoor play, not outdoor play. It\u2019s all outdoor up there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sinnott said going to York will open the door to more opportunities then what AUS schools has. The sport is more watched and recognized in OUA school programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat could get me into the Olympic program as I will have more exposure playing up there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also has another reason she\u2019s comfortable with heading to York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMost of my family lives in Ontario and I don\u2019t get to see them much, unless they come down here to visit us,\u201d said Sinnott. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be fun to go there, visit them a lot of the weekends, then go back to school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”30″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”113″] [adrotate banner=”25″] LAKEVIEW: When most university students go away to college, it usually means they\u2019ve left family behind in their home community they call home. 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