After having an unbelievably successful career at Myers Park, Megan Frost has been furthering her education and love for field hockey in the heart of northern California at Stanford University. She is majoring in Management and Science Engineering and planning to work for Blackstone, a private investment company in the Metropolitan Area of New York.
“I mean, it was always the dream to wanna go to the best school in the country with the best weather and also a great field hockey team,” says Frost. Frost never had her eyes necessarily set on Stanford, but it was an obvious “no-brainer” when she was accepted.
In her time at Myers Park, Frost was a key player on the varsity women’s field hockey team and the women’s soccer team. She fell in love with field hockey during her freshman year as a Mustang, “I started loving it a little, actually a lot more than soccer.”
Frost committed to field hockey, graduating from Myers Park in 2019 as the leader in goals with a total of 115 in addition to 85 assists. Making history for our school, Frost was the first-ever four time MVP (Most Valuable Player).
Bringing that same energy to Stanford Field Hockey, Frost entered the team her freshman year and started all 23 games, had nine shots on goal, and three assists. “College hockey is a completely different sport than high school field hockey, it’s a lot faster, and you have to think a lot faster, it’s never on grass or field turf, it’s always gonna be on astroturf.”
Shortly after an unbelievable first season, the sport took an unexpected turn during her sophomore year at Stanford. It was announced that her university was to cut 11 varsity sports, field hockey being one of them. The fans and athletes fought for 10 months hoping that their beloved teams could keep their rightful spots in the Stanford community. However, field hockey was the only fall sport preparing for another season just around the corner of the devastating announcement. Field hockey played their “final season” and made it to the postseason before thankfully being reinstated after Stanford announced its reversal in May 2021.
Even after the women’s field hockey team was put through the wringer, the fight wasn’t over. The team entered the 2021 American East Tournament with no goalie, subbing in some of their best players into the missing position. Nevertheless, Frost and her team are grateful for the seasons they’ve had, “It’s been weird, but I would not trade it for the world. I’ve had so much fun here.”
This year, during Frost’s senior year at Stanford, the field hockey team went far into the American East Championship, “Just to see the growth in the team from having 11 players and no goalies to having two goalies and a full team this year, to see what you can do in a year. That overall was really exciting and empowering.”
After graduating from Stanford, she’ll take on and revisit the east coast once again while working in New York for a private equity firm, Blackstone. She is currently enrolled as a management science and engineering major, often used to lead into finance and entrepreneurship. Taking that next step towards her future, Blackstone is a leading global investment business located right on Park Avenue in New York City.
As Frost is rounding out her senior year, she hopes that all athletes wishing to follow in her footsteps as college athletes find what they’re truly passionate about and run with it. “I would encourage everyone to just keep up with the sport if they love it, and if they don’t love it, just try to look for something that they do love…”