{"id":2074,"date":"2018-04-11T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:36:57","slug":"name-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/name-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Name Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere can her mourning mistress find so sweet a Cat? So meek! So kind!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s from this line of Mary Robinson\u2019s poem, \u201cMistress Gurton\u2019s Cat: A Domestic Tale,\u201d that the name of the home field of Monmouth\u2019s field hockey program is derived.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<header>Cat Stats<\/header>\n<p><strong>100<\/strong><br \/>\nHawks games<br \/>\nplayed on the<br \/>\nfield<\/p>\n<p><strong>20<\/strong><br \/>\nHawks\u2019 current<br \/>\nregular-season<br \/>\nhome winning<br \/>\nstreak<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong><br \/>\nMAAC Tournament<br \/>\nChampionships<br \/>\nwon on field<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But the field isn\u2019t named in memory of Robinson, or even a cat for that matter. It\u2019s named for of one of Class of 1981 alumna Jane Freed\u2019s beloved race horses, So Sweet A Cat.\u00a0The race mare, which claimed a win at Saratoga Park and was also named Horse of the Year at the Finger Lakes in 2004, reportedly earned Freed nearly half a million dollars during its four-year career.<\/p>\n<p>A philanthropist and generous supporter of a number of academic and athletic initiatives at Monmouth, Freed served on the university\u2019s Board of Visitors and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2002. She was also an avid fan of Monmouth\u2019s field hockey team; as a child, she played the sport while attending the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where she was named to the All Washington Field Hockey Team.<\/p>\n<p>Freed\u2019s gift in support of the rollout of Monmouth\u2019s turf field was \u201cthe first major capital gift made by a woman for women,\u201d Vice President and Director of Athletics Marilyn McNeil said at the time. Former assistant field hockey coach Kathleen Stefanelli \u201901 also made a generous donation in support of So Sweet A Cat field, which was officially dedicated on Oct. 12, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Sweet A Cat Field is named for an animal, but not the kind you\u2019d expect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":70,\"y\":25}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents","category-tides"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-300x200.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-2190 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"object-position:70% 25%\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-1120x746.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-2800x1864.jpg 2800w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-828x551.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2-9x6.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/sosweetacatv2.jpg 3008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>","catString":"Currents, Tides","issue":"Spring 2018","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}