Lawrence Amar (February 24, 1972 – January 21, 2020) was a

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

midfielder from the

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, who was the captain of the national team that finished twelfth at the

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. Amar also earned two consecutive USA Field Hockey Athlete of the Year awards in 1994 and 1995.
USA Field Hockey website Following his playing career, Amar served for six years in the United States Army, earning the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Infantry. He earned two Army Commendation and Army Achievement Medals. He returned home to be the assistant field hockey coach for the Kent State Golden Flashes, Kent State University team from 2009 to 2018. He then went on to assist with U.S. national team. Born in

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, he died at the age of 47 in 2020.

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USA Field Hockey Athletes of the Year

Kent State Mourns the Passing of Larry Amar
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