sentences:  Old Dominion's field hockey team competes in the Big East Conference.The field hockey program had previously announced that it would join the original Big East for the 2013–14 school year.However, following the split of the original Big East, the two successor conferences, the new Big East and the American Athletic Conference, agreed that The American would not sponsor field hockey, and the new Big East would take in all of The American's programs in those sports as associate members.