PRINCETON, N.J. - Following the conclusion of another exciting regular season and tournament weekend, the 2024 All-Ivy Field Hockey team and major awards were announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Princeton’s
Beth Yeager was unanimously voted the Offensive Player of the Year while the Princeton coaching staff, led by Carla Tagliente, was also the unanimous selection to earn Coaching Staff of the Year honors. Columbia’s
Katie Wimmer claimed the Defensive Player of the Year title and Yale’s
Chiara Picciafuoco was crowned as the League’s Rookie of the Year.
Yeager earned the Offensive Player of the Year nod after leading the Ivy League in goals scored (15) and total points (39), while ranking second among League members with nine assists for No. 13 Princeton. The junior finished the regular season ranked among the NCAA’s top-10 in points per game (2.44) and goals per game (0.94). She scored a goal in 10 of the team’s 16 games with six game-winning goals and had three multi-goal performances including scoring three times on two separate occasions against Penn and Dartmouth.
Wimmer collected Defensive Player of the Year honors after being a force in the net all season long for the Lions. The senior keeper currently ranks second nationally and first in the conference with a .824 save percentage and fourth nationally with 8.13 saves per game. In 15 games, Wimmer registered a career-high 122 total saves and led her team to four shutouts.
Rookie of the Year accolades went to Picciafuoco after tying for the Yale team lead in goals (6) and being second on the team with 15 total points. The freshman scored three game-winning goals for the Bulldogs while starting all 16 contests on the attack.
Princeton’s coaching staff, led by ninth-year head coach
Carla Tagliente, was unanimously selected as the Ivy League Coaching Staff of the Year. Tagliente, along with assistants Dina Rizzo, Pattie Gillern, and Pat Harris, led the Tigers to an outright Ivy League championship and the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Ivy League Field Hockey Tournament while keeping the program in the national rankings each week of the season. Princeton, currently No. 13 in the latest Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I National Coaches Poll, is 12-4 overall while finishing Ivy League play at a perfect 7-0 while ranking 10th overall nationally with just 1.16 goals allowed per game.
Additionally, one Ivy League field hockey student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the field as members of the 2024 Ivy League field hockey Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s
Mikayla Walsh, Columbia’s
Katie Wimmer, Cornell's
Claire Vaughn, Dartmouth’s
Gabriela Braceras, Harvard’s
Marie Schaefers, Penn's
Julia Ryan, Princeton’s
Grace Schulze, and Yale’s
Nicole Gotthardt were each named to the team.
2024 ALL-IVY FIELD HOCKEY TEAMS
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Beth Yeager, Princeton (Jr., M – Greenwich, Conn.)*
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Katie Wimmer, Columbia (Sr., GK – Windham, N.H.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Chiara Picciafuoco, Yale (Fr., F – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Princeton*
FIRST TEAM^
Lucy Adams, Brown (Jr., M – Andover, Mass.)*
Mia Karine Myklebust, Brown (So., M – Los Gatos, Calif.)
Katie Wimmer, Columbia (Sr., GK – Windham, N.H.)
Claire Wolfe, Cornell (5
th, M – Garnet Valley, Pa.)
Lara Beekhuis, Harvard (So., F – Laren, Netherlands)
Bronte-May Brough, Harvard (Jr., D – Uttoxeter, England)*
Beth Yeager, Princeton (Jr., M – Greenwich, Conn.)*
Ella Cashman, Princeton (So., D – Surbiton, England)
Clem Houlden, Princeton (Fr., D – Bristol, England)
Poppy Beales, Yale (Jr., F – King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England)
Chiara Picciafuoco, Yale (Fr., F – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Hettie Whittington, Yale (So., D – Guildford, Surrey, England)
SECOND TEAM^
Julia Hitti, Brown (Sr., D – Ashland, Mass.)
Jacinta Solari Etcheberry, Columbia (Fr., M -
Olivia Galiotos, Dartmouth (Jr., D/M – Virginia Beach, Va.)
Emily Guckian, Harvard (Sr., M – Weybridge, England)
Kitty Chapple, Harvard (Jr., M – Somerset, England)
Kate Oliver, Harvard (Jr., F – St. Louis, Mo.)
Sage Piekarski, Harvard (So., F – Concord, Mass.)
Meghan McGinley, Penn (Sr., D – Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)
Julia Ryan, Penn (Jr., M – Brookline, Mass.)
Talia Schenck, Princeton (Jr., F – Lawrenceville, N.J.)
Robyn Thompson, Princeton (Sr., GK – Herne, Kent, England)
Victoria Collee, Yale (Fr., M – Laren, Netherlands)
HONORABLE MENTION
Katie McCallum, Brown (Sr., F – Blue Bell, Pa.)
Imogen Govan, Brown (Sr., M – Oakville, Ontario)
Lindsey Yu, Columbia (Sr., M – Montville, N.J.)
Martha Broderick, Cornell (So., GK – Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England)
Grace Leahy, Cornell (Jr., M – Waterloo, Ontario)
Lucia Campaño, Dartmouth (So., M – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Lucy Leel, Harvard (Sr., F – London, England)
Tessa Shahbo, Harvard (Jr., GK – Surrey, England)
Ottilie Sykes, Princeton (So., D – Milton, England)
Grace Schulze, Princeton (Sr., F – Greenwich, Conn.)
Anna Faulstich, Princeton (Fr., M – Bromley, England)
Lily Ramsey, Yale (Sr., F – Summit, N.J.)
Emma Ramsey, Yale (So., M – Summit, N.J.)
*Unanimous selection
^Teams expanded due to ties in voting