Madison and Maitland Demand have field hockey in their blood. Coming from a family lineagethat includes one of Ocean County’s most well-known coaches and a mother who played under Kathy Snyder in the early 1990s, it made sense that the two girls took up hockey.

“To say we eat, sleep and breathe field hockey is an understatement,” said Maitland, who just completed her freshman season at Southern Regional under another of Snyder’s disciples, Jenna Lombardo. “It’s our lives.”

But it didn’t have to be that way. Growing up in Bayville, Madison and Maitland had the option to explore other sports.