Michelle Kasold (born May 26, 1987) is an American

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

player. Kasold was on the team that won the field hockey tournament at the

2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, ...

. She also made the U.S. team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Kasold was born in

San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...

. She graduated from

East Chapel Hill High School East Chapel Hill High School ("East") is a public high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the second high school of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district, which also contains Chapel Hill High School and Carrboro High Schoo ...

in 2005 and

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

in 2009.

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Behind the Uniform (Michelle Kasold's blog)

Michelle Kasold verified Twitter account
1987 births Living people American female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for the United States Wake Forest Demon Deacons field hockey players Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century American women {{US-fieldhockey-bio-stub