Spring 2024 Recap

A NOTE FROM COACH

As the year wraps up, I wanted to take some time to thank everyone for the support of our program. We plan on doing a lot of new things moving forward that would not be possible without your help. We are so grateful for the amazing players, parents, friends and family, that follow along with our journey and always find ways to help elevate our team. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

-Head Coach Brenda Semit

SUMMER 2024- HERE WELCOME!

One things that would not be possible without your support is traveling abroad as a team. For the first time ever, Ohio Wesleyan Field Hockey will be traveling abroad! At the end of July, our team will embark on a journey to the Netherlands!

While there, we will stay in Amsterdam, Haarlem, Maastricht and Utrecht, exploring places like the Anne Frank House, the Kinderdijk Windmills, Royal Palace and the De Haar Castle, while also embarking on a few boat and bike tours! We are beyond excited!

We will also have the opportunity to watch a high-level international match, be coached with a licensed Dutch professional coach and play against 2 Dutch hockey teams! Not to mention, we hope to meet up with a few of our Dutch alumni and one of our incoming Freshmen!!

SEMESTER RECAP

Through the Spring semester, the girls worked hard in the classroom, weight room and on the field.

One of our goals this spring was to make sure that our team GPA stayed above a 3.5, and it did!

We had 18 out of our 25 players above a 3.5! We know how hard our girls work in the classroom and are so proud to see them performing at a high level in every aspect of their lives!

Bench Press

Hang Clean

Benchmark Leaders

Megan Mccarthy

Emma Wright, Megan Mccarthy, Emma Morgeson, Olivia Danley, Quinn Dachisen

In the weight room, we improved in every category across the boards for our benchmarks!

Dead Lift

Squat

Lunge

Olivia Danley

Megan Mccarthy

Annabel Fauver

To the right you’ll see our benchmark leaders! Hang cleans had 5 players all hit the same max number!

Megan McCarthy led in 3 different categories!

On the field, we mixed up our schedule a bit this year since we were allowed 8 extra practice days. We did our normal team practices and added in more individuals. Every member of our team was required to do 3. Some took advantage and did as many as they could!

We cannot wait to see how the extra touches and extra feedback impact our players in the fall!

DALE BRUCE AWARDS

Each year, Ohio Wesleyan Athletics host the Dale Bruce Awards to honor exemplary student-athletes and their academic and athlete achievements. We are extremely proud of all our young young women that were honored that evening.

Top 50 Awards: Gabi Dahllof, Olivia Danley, Alyssa Markell

Awarded to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors with the Top 50 highest GPAs.

Chi Alpha Sigma:Olivia Danley, Alyssa Markell, Lauren Kunzler, Gabi Dahllof, Allie Crawford, Colleen McMenamin, Megan McCarthy and Zoë Nelson

Chi Alpha Sigma is a National Student-Athlete Honor Society which honors Juniors and Senior who have a cumulative GPA of 3.4 or higher.

At the end of April, we had hosted our first Spring play day at OWU! We had a great erent competition! We had 7 teams (including ourselves) eld! The teams that attended were, Wittenberg, Denison, Earlham, Kenyon, Mercyhurst and an adult team, filled with former college stars from all levels, Cowtown!

It was a great day of hockey, winning against all teams except cowtown, and tying the Division 1 program, Mercyhurst! There was a lot of growth through the day and

COMMITTED WEEKEND

We had a wonderful committed player weekend, filled with a celebration and team painting night!

We also had a spring clinic the following day. We reached capacity with 40 registrants!! It was a beautiful day of field hockey!

INCOMING CLASS

#1 PAIGE BUCHNESS

✓2x regional champion

✓2nd team all SMAC

✓offensive mvp

✓captain

✓programs second all time leading scorer

#7 REAGAN SCHIFLETT

✓Third Team All Region

✓2x First Team All Region

✓2x Second Team All State

✓First Team All Metro

✓Second Team All Metro

#11 IZZY FRY

✓2x Second Team All-League

✓2x Team MVP

✓2x Team Sportsmanship Award (League)

✓2022 Ohio Field Hockey Team

Sportsmanship Award

✓2023 School Single Season Wins Record

✓Senior Captain

#15 MADDIE FEDERICO

✓2nd team all region

✓2nd team all district

✓4x state finalist

✓2023 state champion

#21 EMMA REYNOLDS

✓First team all league

✓Second team all state

✓4 year varsity letter

✓District Champions

✓District Runner-up x2

#22 MARY POWERS

✓Captain

✓Offensive MVP

✓1st team all district

✓2nd team all district

✓2nd team all region

✓4 year varsity starter

✓2x all-section & all-star

✓PA senior cup team

✓Senior captain- club & HS

✓6 NITs attended with Pittsburgh Venom

FHC

#26 SUSIE BENINCASA

✓3 year varsity Letter

✓most dedicated award

✓3x playoffs

✓3X State Final Four contender

#27 KATIE CONWAY

✓3x conference champion

✓2x final four

✓state finalist - 2023

✓2x first team all conference

✓2x daily news all star

✓captain

✓daily news all star

✓ Boston herald honorable mention

#28 NOVA DEKKER

✓2x All-season district champions

✓2x 2nd place All-season

✓2x Fall district champions

✓2x Spring district champions

✓1x Winter district champions

✓1x 3rd place Spring district

✓2x (Indoor) 3rd place Winter district

✓ 2x co-captain

GRADUATION

To wrap up our school year we watched our four seniors, Allie, Lauren, Megan and Emily, walk across the stage and receive their diploma. We are so thankful for their contribution to OWU and our field hockey team and cannot wait to see all of the amazing things they do after college!

To highlight their amazing careers, in their 3 years of competition, they had an overall record of 44-10. They were 2 time NCAC Champions, a regular season champion and had an undefeated regular season! The also advance to the NCAA twice and completed in the Sweet 16 after winning our first ever NCAA matchup!

Our seniors had some unbelievable statistics over their 3 years! They helped the team scored 162 goals and only allow 27 against! We also led all of Division III NCAA in 4 different categories, for two years straight!

We are unbelievably proud of our seniors and all they have accomplished! As always, GO BISHOPS!

ALUMNI GAME

we have had amazing turnouts, so please keep your calendars open! We are looking at the end of March or beginning of April again and we hope to see you there!

FALL 2024 SCHEDULE

2024 Field Hockey Schedule

JUST A LITTLE FUN

SPRING 2024 RECAP