2025 Field Hockey All-Ivy Introduced

PRINCETON, N.J. – The 2025 All-Ivy Field hockey groups and main award winners had been introduced Wednesday following the conclusion of a nationally profitable common season the place the Ivy League was constantly ranked the No. 2 discipline hockey convention within the nation. 

Princeton’s Beth Yeager and Harvard’s Sage Piekarski earned Co-Offensive Player of the Year honors, whereas Harvard’s Bronte-May Brough was named Defensie Player of the Year. Harvard first-year Linde Burger captured Rookie of the Year accolades, and the Crimson teaching employees, led by Tjerk van Herwaarden, was unanimously chosen because the Coaching Staff of the Year.

Yeager earned her fourth profession Offensive Player of the Year honor, including to titles from 2021, 2022, and a unanimous choice in 2024. The 2024 Paris Olympian grew to become the primary participant in Ivy League historical past to win the award 4 instances, having already been the one athlete to earn it 3 times. Yeager led the league in factors with 29 this season, whereas rating fifth with 10 objectives and third with 9 assists. The senior recorded factors in 12 of 16 matches.

Piekarski is the second Harvard athlete to be named Offensive Player of the Year and the primary since Bente van Vlijmen in 2018 and 2019. The junior tied for the Ivy League lead with 12 objectives and completed tied for second with 27 factors, including three assists. After scoring simply two objectives by means of the primary six matches of the season, Piekarski exploded for 10 objectives within the remaining 10 contests, together with two-goal performances in opposition to Penn, Boston University, and Yale.

Brough anchored a Crimson protection that allowed simply 10 objectives in 16 contests and posted seven shutouts. Both marks led the Ivy League and ranked within the high 10 nationally. The senior was additionally named Defensive Player of the Year in 2023 and have become the primary to win the award twice, courting again to its inception in 2011. In addition to her defensive dominance, Brough added 5 objectives, two assists, and 12 factors for the Crimson.

Burger grew to become the primary goalkeeper to earn Rookie of the Year honors since Harvard’s Ellie Shahbo in 2018, and simply the sixth for the reason that award was first introduced in 1980. Burger’s 0.605 goals-against common led the Ivy League and ranked second nationally, whereas her .792 save share paced the league and stood fifth in Division I.

Harvard’s teaching employees was unanimously chosen because the Coaching Staff of the Year—the fifth time the Crimson have earned the dignity underneath head coach Tjerk van Herwaarden. Van Herwaarden and his employees guided the Crimson to a 16-0 common season document, the primary good common season in Ivy League historical past. The employees additionally led Harvard to the outright Ivy League title and nationwide rankings as excessive as No. 3 and RPI rankings as excessive as No. 2.

Brough and Yeager had been unanimous All-Ivy First Team picks, joined by Brown’s Lucy Adams and Harvard’s Kitty Chapple.

Additionally, one discipline hockey student-athlete from every establishment was acknowledged for his or her excellence within the classroom and on the sector as members of the 2025 discipline hockey Academic All-Ivy staff. Honorees embody Brown’s Lexi Pellegrino, Columbia’s Sam Petrucco, Cornell’s Jane McNally, Dartmouth’s Ava Carlson, Harvard’s Kate Oliver, Penn’s Livia Loozen, Princeton’s Helena Große, and Yale’s Hettie Whittington.

2025 FIELD HOCKEY ALL-IVY

CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Sage Piekarski, Harvard

CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Beth Yeager, Princeton

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Bronte-May Brough, Harvard

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Linde Burger, Harvard

COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR

Harvard*

FIRST TEAM^

Lucy Adams, Brown (Sr., M)*

Mia Karine Myklebust, Brown (Jr., M)

Bronte-May Brough, Harvard (Sr., D)*

Linde Burger, Harvard (Fr., GK)

Kitty Chapple, Harvard (Sr., M)*

Martha le Huray, Harvard (So., F)

Sage Piekarski, Harvard (Jr., F)

Ella Cashman, Princeton (Jr., M)

Clem Houlden, Princeton (So., D)

Beth Yeager, Princeton (Sr., M)*

Poppy Beales, Yale (Sr., F)

Chiara Picciafuoco, Yale (So., M)

 

SECOND TEAM^

Emily Jury, Brown (Fr., D)

Lexi Pellegrino, Brown (Sr. F)

Jacinta Solari Etcheberry, Columbia (So., M)

Uma Käding, Cornell (So., F)

Lara Beekhuis, Harvard (Jr., F)

Philine Klas, Penn (Sr., D)

Julia Ryan, Penn (Sr., M)

Olivia Caponiti, Princeton (Jr., GK)

Ottilie Sykes, Princeton (Jr., D)

Caitlin Thompson, Princeton (Fr., F)

Amelie Schwarzkopf, Yale (Fr., GK)

Hettie Whittington, Yale (Jr., D)

 

HONORABLE MENTION

Ellie Parker, Brown (Fr., GK)

Margot Houle, Columbia (So., GK)

Julia Ramsey, Cornell (Jr., M)

Rease Coleman, Cornell (Jr., M/F)

Ella Bowman, Dartmouth (Jr., D)

Olivia Galiotos, Dartmouth (Sr., M)

Fiene Oerlemans, Harvard (Sr., M)

Kaitlyn Chang, Yale (So., M)

Victoria Collee, Yale (So., M)

*Unanimous choice

^Teams expanded attributable to ties in voting