PRINCETON, N.J. - The 2025 All-Ivy Field hockey teams and major award winners were announced Wednesday following the conclusion of a nationally successful regular season where the Ivy League was consistently ranked the No. 2 field hockey conference in the nation.
Princeton's Beth Yeager and Harvard's Sage Piekarski earned Co-Offensive Player of the Year honors, while 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 coaching staff, led by Tjerk van Herwaarden, was unanimously selected as the Coaching Staff of the Year.
Yeager earned her fourth career Offensive Player of the Year honor, adding to titles from 2021, 2022, and a unanimous selection in 2024. The 2024 Paris Olympian became the first player in Ivy League history to win the award four times, having already been the only athlete to earn it three times. Yeager led the league in points with 29 this season, while ranking fifth with 10 goals and third with nine assists. The senior recorded points in 12 of 16 matches.
Piekarski is the second Harvard athlete to be named Offensive Player of the Year and the first since Bente van Vlijmen in 2018 and 2019. The junior tied for the Ivy League lead with 12 goals and finished tied for second with 27 points, adding three assists. After scoring just two goals through the first six matches of the season, Piekarski exploded for 10 goals in the final 10 contests, including two-goal performances against Penn, Boston University, and Yale.
Brough anchored a Crimson defense that allowed just 10 goals in 16 contests and posted seven shutouts. Both marks led the Ivy League and ranked in the top 10 nationally. The senior was also named Defensive Player of the Year in 2023 and became the first to win the award twice, dating back to its inception in 2011. In addition to her defensive dominance, Brough added five goals, two assists, and 12 points for the Crimson.
Burger became the first goalkeeper to earn Rookie of the Year honors since Harvard’s Ellie Shahbo in 2018, and just the sixth since the award was first presented in 1980. Burger’s 0.605 goals-against average led the Ivy League and ranked second nationally, while her .792 save percentage paced the league and stood fifth in Division I.
Harvard’s coaching staff was unanimously selected as the Coaching Staff of the Year—the fifth time the Crimson have earned the honor under head coach Tjerk van Herwaarden. Van Herwaarden and his staff guided the Crimson to a 16-0 regular season record, the first perfect regular season in Ivy League history. The staff also led Harvard to the outright Ivy League title and national rankings as high as No. 3 and RPI rankings as high as No. 2.
Brough and Yeager were unanimous All-Ivy First Team selections, joined by Brown's Lucy Adams and Harvard's Kitty Chapple.
Additionally, one field hockey student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their excellence in the classroom and on the field as members of the 2025 field hockey Academic All-Ivy team. Honorees include 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 selection
^Teams expanded due to ties in voting