Amy started her hockey career in third grade through Ann Arbor Rec and Ed and immediately fell in love with the sport.  When she was in ninth grade she tried goalkeeping and found her home!  At Ann Arbor Pioneer Amy had the privilege of being coached by Nancy Cox and Jane Nixon, who remain to be her greatest mentors today.  From there she went on to play at the University of Michigan.  While there she had three more outstanding coaches (and Olympians):  Marcia Pankratz, Tracey Fuchs and Peggy Storrar, all joining the Wolverines straight from the Atlanta Olympics.  Because of their investment and a lot of hard work, in her senior year Amy was named an NCAA Regional All-American and M-Women's Female Athlete of the Year. 

After graduating with a B.A. in Education,  Amy returned to Ann Arbor Pioneer to coach and pursue a career in education.  Amy has enjoyed four different careers in education; as a coach, a high school teacher, church youth director and school counselor.  Amy earned her M.A. in counseling from Eastern Michigan University in 2004.  In 2005 Amy began her career with Novi Community Schools as a School Counselor and three years later, started Novi's first Varsity Field Hockey Team where she still coaches today with her husband Kevin. 

Outside of her family, Amy's two great passions are mentoring high school and middle school students and field hockey.  Live Oak Field Hockey Club is many years in the making.  It affords Amy and her husband Kevin a chance to combine their passion of ministering to students with their passion for the game of hockey.  Kevin and Amy live in Novi with their three amazing kids: William, Jackson and Lizzie, and two dogs and a cat!

Jill Dixon recently left the field hockey staff at Central Michigan University to return to her native Ann Arbor. Prior to her time as an Assistant Coach in Mt. Pleasant, Jill was the head coach at the College of Wooster for five years, the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, and the assistant coach both at Oberlin College in Ohio and Smith College in Massachusetts.  An alumni of Ann Arbor Pioneer, Dixon traveled east to study and play field hockey at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Dixon garnered both academic and athletics honors as a two-sport standout at Randolph-Macon College. In field hockey, Dixon was a four-year starter and earned a trio of All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference certificates. A double-major as an undergraduate, Dixon earned her bachelor's in biology and mathematics from Randolph-Macon in 2009, and a master's in sport leadership from Wesley in 2017.

Allison was a four year varsity field hockey starter at Webster Schroeder High School in Rochester, New York. She attended Kent State University from 2006-2010, where she was a four year starter and letter winner for the Golden Flashes. She was named captain her senior year and helped lead the team to Mid American Conference Championships her junior and senior years. Allison was twice voted Second Team All-MAC, and was voted to the 2008 All-MAC Tournament Team and 2009 First Team All-MAC. She was a member of the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad and Academic All-MAC and was selected to play in the NFHCA Senior All-Star game in 2009. After graduating from Kent State, Allison attended Michigan State University for law school, where she volunteered with the Michigan State field hockey team. Allison currently works as a real estate attorney and lives in Rochester Hills with her husband Theo.

Thiemo started playing field hockey at the age of five in Germany at LBV Phönix Lübeck Club and his passion for hockey has only grown since! He started refereeing at the age 15 and took his first head coach position at the age of 17 for the Phönix Lübeck Hockey Club's U14 Team.  Thiemo continued to play hockey as an adult while also organizing one of Germany's biggest indoor youth field hockey tournaments.

Thiemo started studying business administration in Nuremberg in 2001 and started playing and coaching at Nürnberger Hockey and Tennis Club (U10 and U12) for the coming years while also being a referee in the German Bundesliga and Youth Championships.  When Thiemo's career in human resources brought him back to Coburg in Bavaria and no Field Hockey Club was found for his daughters to play he founded the Field Hockey department at Sportvereinigung Ahorn 1910 e.v. 

In 2018, Theimo took an opportunity to take an assignment in the Detroit area and again learned that the field hockey family provides support, even internationally.  Thiemo found a new field hockey home as coach of the Live Oak Field Hockey Club where his daughters play and he has coached since arriving in the states.  Thiemo resides in Novi with his wife Sarah and three daughters.

Live Oak Field Hockey is thrilled to welcome Zahraa Zahr to their coaching staff.  Zahraa is currently a nursing student at Wayne State University and a former athlete with Live Oak Field Hockey.  Zahraa was a stand out at Edsel Ford High School and team captain in her junior and senior years.  She earned all state honors while at Edsel Ford as both a Junior and Senior.  When the high school season ended, Zahraa played for Live Oak and anchored the defensive unit on Live Oak's travel team.   Since her graduation, Zahraa has been highly committed to her growth as a coach.  She has coached at the Acadamy of the Sacred Heart Middle School and is currently the head coach for Plymouth-Canton Educational Park's Varsity team.  Zahraa holds a level one and level two United States Field Hockey coaching certification.