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Field Hockey Family: The Westera Sisters

Fien (left) and Ilse (right) Westera will take the field as teammates for the first time together this upcoming season

If you ask the student-athletes at Old Dominion how they would describe their team, many of them would say "family". You hear it all the time in both collegiate and professional sports, as the athletes share a locker room, facilities, fields and even housing together, their bond eventually becomes as strong as the bond between siblings.

There are some cases however, where your sister on the field is the same sister that you grew up playing with as a child.