A former standout on the US national team, Sykes has been named the interim head coach of field hockey at Cornell University for the 2003 campaign after serving as an assistant at Towson University in the two previous seasons.

A national team member from 1986 to 1997, Sykes was part of the US indoor team in 1994, and then again in each of the last two seasons. The 2002 indoor squad captured a silver medal at the World Cup qualifier and earned a bronze at the 1995 Pan American Games. Sykes has represented the United States in more than thirty junior national and sixty senior national matches. He also competed in the Australian Premier Division for the UTS Hockey Club in Sydney. He previously had served as a volunteer assistant coach at UC-Davis during the 1998 and 1999 campaigns.

Sykes earned his bachelor?s degree in kinesiology from California State University, Hayward, in 1999.

References

• US Field Hockey