Enfield Legend Installed In National Field Hockey Coaches Hall Of Fame

LAKE MARY, FL — Friday the 13th proved to be anything but unlucky for an Enfield coaching legend, who added another national accolade to her impressive string of awards and honors.

Cookie Bromage, who founded the Enfield High School field hockey program in 1967 and remained at the helm for 52 years, was one of four women inducted last Friday into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame in a lavish ceremony at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary Hotel.

A 6-minute video featuring photos and videos from her career, as well as comments from some former players and colleagues, served as the introduction of Bromage to a packed house of more than 300 guests. She then humbly thanked her athletes, fellow coaches and administrators for making her legendary career possible, before departing the stage to a standing ovation.

Enfield won five Class M championships during her tenure, with back-to-back titles in 1983 and 1984 and a "three-peat" in 1992, 1993 and 1994. Her teams won more than 450 games during her career, and she coached two future college All-Americans, a pair of high school All-Americans, a Connecticut Player of the Year, four members of the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame and 17 women who eventually joined her as individual electees into the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame.

In 2019, the turf playing surface in the Enfield High School stadium was named Cookie Bromage Field, and in 2021, she received the prestigious Gold Key Award from the Connecticut Sports Media Alliance.

Bromage became just the sixth high school coach from Connecticut to be inducted in the 23-year history of the NFHCA Hall of Fame. The event marked her ninth election into a hall of fame; in addition to being a charter member of the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996, her 1992-94 teams and 1983-84 squads were also subsequently inducted. She is also a member of the Suffield, New Agenda: Northeast, Connecticut High School Coaches Association, Connecticut Field Hockey and National High School Athletic Coaches Association halls of fame.