Varsity Field Hockey

Germantown Academy graduate Jackie Connard heads into her eighth season as head coach of the Patriots.

Connard is a 2006 graduate of GA where she was a member of the varsity field hockey program.

In 2021, GA finished the season with a 7-14-2 overall record, and a 5-4-1 Inter-Ac League record.

The 2019 Patriots went 9-11-2 overall and 6-4 in league play.

The 2018 season was very successful for GA. Under Connard's watch, the team went 15-5-1 overall and 8-1-1 in the Inter-Ac League. The team won the league title for the first time in 12 years in 2018, but fell in the PAISAA Championship to Episcopal Academy in a shootout.

During the 2017 season, the Patriots went 14-6 and lost in the finals of the PAISAA tournament. They went 6-4 in the Inter-Ac and had four players honored as All-Inter-Ac performers during the year.

In 2016, the Patriots went 14-7 and fell in the quarterfinals of the PAISAA, but finished the year strong with an 8-0 win over William Penn Charter on GA-PC Day.

Following her graduation from GA, Connard played field hockey for four years at Brown University. She earned four varsity letters, was a two-time captain of the Bears and won several team awards during her collegiate career. Connard earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience in 2010 and was a D.W. Lyman Scholar all four years.

After completing her first year of a Master of Architecture degree at Boston Architectural College, Connard currently works as a designer at Ellen Happ Architect in Doylestown.

Connard inherited the Patriots’ field hockey program from her former coach, Ginny Hofmann 1760, who retired from coaching following a 15-9 record during the fall 2014 season.

In her first season with the Patriots, the team went 16-7, besting Hofmann's record from the year before. However, for the second straight season, the Patriots fell in the semi-finals of the PAISAA to the Episcopal Academy.

(Updated on 7/20/22)

Brooke Watson enters her 25th season as a varsity assistant coach for the Patriots. Prior to her tenure at GA, she was an assistant field hockey coach at Harvard University and Swarthmore College. She played on the collegiate level at West Chester University. During the offseason, Coach Watson is the co-director of GA Summer Program's Field Hockey Camp. She also runs the Indoor Winter Field Hockey League at GA. Coach Watson is GA's Lower School Physical Education Coordinator.

(Updated: 7/20/22)