EAST STROUDSBURG - Cara Senese, a two-time All-American at East Stroudsburg University and the head field hockey coach at East Stroudsburg South High School, has been selected to the 2008 USA women's national indoor field hockey team which will compete at the Indoor Pan American Games in November.

Senese was one of 22 women selected from more than 60 athletes that participated in the USA indoor trials. The travel squad for the Pan American Games, which will be held from November 17-23 in San Juan, Argentina, will be announced later this summer.

Senese participated in two three-hour sessions at the indoor trials, which included drills, scrimmages and a fitness component. She had the highest rating of all the athletes on the fitness test, which measures the pace and number of repetitions that an athlete can complete on a 20-meter course.

She has competed for the U.S. Olympic Development program in Australia and Italy and will have an opportunity to earn a spot on the travel team for the Pan American Games this fall.

A three-time All-PSAC selection and an All-American in 2004 and 2006 for the Warriors, Senese graduated from ESU in December 2006 with a degree in Elementary and Special Education.

She was named the head field hockey coach at East Stroudsburg South last summer and is currently a sixth grade special education teacher at J.T. Lambert Intermediate School in East Stroudsburg.