Robohm’s love of field hockey goes beyond the field

BOSTON, Mass. - Rachel Robohm played a key role in the Wheelock Wildcat field hockey team's playoff run this fall, finishing in the top ten in the New England Collegiate Conference in scoring and helping the Wildcats to a second place finish in the NECC.

But that's only half the story.

Off the field, Robohm is one of only a handful of students who received Wheelock College's Passion for Action Scholarship, which recognizes and supports outstanding students from the greater Boston area who have demonstrated an emerging commitment to and passion for their communities. The program helps scholars nurture and apply their passion to become leaders for positive change in their community, nation, and world.

For the past three years, Robohm has organized and coached the town's youth field hockey program for the fall and winter seasons, filtering her love and passion for field hockey back into a program that was slowly fading away.

"My whole life I've played field hockey, I'm from a family of all girls and we've all been raised on field hockey," said Robhom. "And when I was a sophomore, the youth league stopped and the summer camp we all grew up on stopped and so field hockey was kind of dying down in our town."

Concerned that there would be no field hockey opportunities for the girls in the area before high school, Robohm, with her mother, started a travel league and began coaching the team. Before long, there were so many players that one team evolved into three. 

"The reason why I did all of this is that I have a little sister who is a freshman and we didn't want her to have a bad experience, not have enough girls to make a team. We wanted there to be a freshman JV and varsity team like my older sister and cousin and myself had."

This year, when Robohm's younger sister Taylor showed up for tryouts, there were 30 girls to try out for the freshman team.  Robohm also co-organized a field hockey clinic for girls in grade eight and below, which resulted in a summer camp being offered for the girls interested in learning how to play. Aside from her work with field hockey, Robohm was also chosen by the principal to be a part of the Student Mentor Program, which was designed to educate younger students on what to expect in their upcoming high school years. As a very active member of her class's executive board, Rachel helped create and run many fundraisers that benefited her graduating class.

Robohm carries a double major in Elementary Education and Communications and is a native of North Eastern, Massachusetts.