Grace Wiggins gets ready for Field Hockey season with Life Guarding

DEWEY BEACH, Del.- Grace Wiggins life guarding to get ready for the upcoming field hockey season.

Richmond sophomore field hockey player, Grace Wiggins, during the Summer can be seen out in Dewey Beach life guarding. 

Wiggins has been life guarding for two years and has helped translate her passion for life guarding into skills for field hockey. 

Training in the summer as a life guard has prepared her for the hot days like the early practices and games in the season. The running drills they do on the beach help with her speed, while moving her stand back and forth throughout the day, help keep her in shape ahead of the season. 

Life guarding for her feels more like a family than a job. With the bonds she made through work feeling the same as the bonds she has with her teammates, and finding out through hard work and friendship, make a strong dynamic.

As testament to this, Wiggins recalls her time at the Nexus Tournament she played in, where she met up with an old teammate, Jordan Hollaman.

“So a lot of the girls on my team were people I didn’t recognize but an old teammate of mine, Jordan Hollaman, was actually on my Nexus team,” explained Wiggins. “So that kinda help me understand that I was gonna be ok in this tournament, cause I was nervous going into it. But knowing that I had that familiar face in somebody that I had played with before, like ensured team chemistry kinda really made it easier to go out there and just play like, to the best of my abilities.”