As a Sidwell Friends student, Nate Franks ’03 was the only boy on the normally all-female varsity field hockey team. It was an unusual choice but proved to be a wise one—Franks has recently been named assistant coach of Princeton University’s field hockey team.

Though he originally signed up because he was prohibited from playing football and didn’t like the other options, Franks stuck with and excelled at the sport under the guidance of longtime SFS coach Anne Monahan. He went on to play for his college team at Princeton and later for a semi-pro team in Dublin, Ireland. Franks also held assistant coaching positions at American University and Bucknell University before returning to his college alma matter.

Read more in Princeton, New Jersey’s weekly newspaper, Town Topics.