They get UMass, who beat them 3-0 in the regular season.
2025 Women's Field Hockey Season
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Re: 2025 Women's Field Hockey Season
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Re: 2025 Women's Field Hockey Season
FH goes down to UMass 4-1. I assume the end of the season. A very good season..
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Re: 2025 Women's Field Hockey Season
I have been really busy this past weekend but have a lot of thoughts on this season.
--quick OT shout out to my daughters' Trinity Titans for their 5-2 win in the VISAA D1 field hockey state championship game Saturday. VISAA D1 is the large private schools in Virginia and probably one of if not the most competitive high school field hockey divisions in the country outside Pennsylvania - three teams from that division (including Trinity) are ranked in the Longstreth National HS Top 25. They finish the season 19-1-1. It was the team's first appearance in the state finals since 2019. Out of 10 seniors on the team, 5 (including my daughter) have been on the team since freshmen year, (3 will be playing D1 next year and 1 other is considering D3), so it has been a long 4 years of hard work to get to this goal.--
As for App, what a great season! At 14-6 they tied the App record for most wins in a season. Though I guess Coach Dinsmore's first year '23 was a technically better record at 14-5 (as well as Jan Watson's 12-1-1 and 11-1-1 seasons in the sixties, but those were different times). They spent much of the regular season ranked in the mid-20s RPI, and if there was such as thing as a field hockey NIT, they would be playing in it.
I really strated following App field hockey seriously about 5-6 years ago, so these seniors are the one I have watched all the way through the process. It has been great watching their growth. I think Lise Boekaar may be one of my favorite players to watch in the whole country, I love her style of play. She ends her senior years as App's all-time career leader in assists (which is my favorite stat).
The MAC was really tough this year with the addition of UMass (I figured the last 2 at-large spots would be between Yale, UConn, and UMass with UMass most likely on the outs, and that is what happened). They have been a good home for the Mountaineers but I would love to see a SBC field hockey league.
The future looks bright. Dinsmore's '26 and '27 recruiting classes look to be stellar. She has a long history working with USA Field Hockey's youth NEXUS Futures program and I suspect it is paying off. I first met her at a regional USA field hockey event for middle-schoolers when she was an assistant and have always been impressed.
Lastly, I wanted to point out that the recent field hockey success starting under Dawson and continuing under Dinsmore has corresponded to the upheavals elsewhere in college athletics. I suspect the money and changes affecting football and basketball is having a trickle-down effect on low profile sports like field hockey, where these low profile sports are seeing the benefits without much of the negatives. NIL and transfer portal concerns aren't gutting teams every year - this year's squad was full of four year starters. But at the same time, high level recruits are starting to think of the wider athletic program when choosing their hockey team. In hockey, the Big Ten and ACC are on top, but after those two league, the next best bunch of schools (apart from a few Ivys) is the G5 - Liberty, UMass, UConn, Miami, App, ODU, JMU, Temple. There is a clear separation growing in field hockey between the FBS schools and the FCS/non-football schools. And I suspect over the coming years, recruits in the hockey heartland of PA to VA will more and more start looking at a school like App or JMU before they consider traditional old-school mid-level good programs like those in the A-10 or Patriot League. I guess Coastal Carolina, ECU, and UNCC need to start field hockey teams.
Anyway, congrats on another great season. Good luck Coach, may the off-season clinics and youth tournaments go well. See you at Shooting Stars in a few weeks. And I hope App and ODU schedule at least one game in Boone during my daughter's time at ODU (that is the real reason I want a SBC field hockey league by the way)
--quick OT shout out to my daughters' Trinity Titans for their 5-2 win in the VISAA D1 field hockey state championship game Saturday. VISAA D1 is the large private schools in Virginia and probably one of if not the most competitive high school field hockey divisions in the country outside Pennsylvania - three teams from that division (including Trinity) are ranked in the Longstreth National HS Top 25. They finish the season 19-1-1. It was the team's first appearance in the state finals since 2019. Out of 10 seniors on the team, 5 (including my daughter) have been on the team since freshmen year, (3 will be playing D1 next year and 1 other is considering D3), so it has been a long 4 years of hard work to get to this goal.--
As for App, what a great season! At 14-6 they tied the App record for most wins in a season. Though I guess Coach Dinsmore's first year '23 was a technically better record at 14-5 (as well as Jan Watson's 12-1-1 and 11-1-1 seasons in the sixties, but those were different times). They spent much of the regular season ranked in the mid-20s RPI, and if there was such as thing as a field hockey NIT, they would be playing in it.
I really strated following App field hockey seriously about 5-6 years ago, so these seniors are the one I have watched all the way through the process. It has been great watching their growth. I think Lise Boekaar may be one of my favorite players to watch in the whole country, I love her style of play. She ends her senior years as App's all-time career leader in assists (which is my favorite stat).
The MAC was really tough this year with the addition of UMass (I figured the last 2 at-large spots would be between Yale, UConn, and UMass with UMass most likely on the outs, and that is what happened). They have been a good home for the Mountaineers but I would love to see a SBC field hockey league.
The future looks bright. Dinsmore's '26 and '27 recruiting classes look to be stellar. She has a long history working with USA Field Hockey's youth NEXUS Futures program and I suspect it is paying off. I first met her at a regional USA field hockey event for middle-schoolers when she was an assistant and have always been impressed.
Lastly, I wanted to point out that the recent field hockey success starting under Dawson and continuing under Dinsmore has corresponded to the upheavals elsewhere in college athletics. I suspect the money and changes affecting football and basketball is having a trickle-down effect on low profile sports like field hockey, where these low profile sports are seeing the benefits without much of the negatives. NIL and transfer portal concerns aren't gutting teams every year - this year's squad was full of four year starters. But at the same time, high level recruits are starting to think of the wider athletic program when choosing their hockey team. In hockey, the Big Ten and ACC are on top, but after those two league, the next best bunch of schools (apart from a few Ivys) is the G5 - Liberty, UMass, UConn, Miami, App, ODU, JMU, Temple. There is a clear separation growing in field hockey between the FBS schools and the FCS/non-football schools. And I suspect over the coming years, recruits in the hockey heartland of PA to VA will more and more start looking at a school like App or JMU before they consider traditional old-school mid-level good programs like those in the A-10 or Patriot League. I guess Coastal Carolina, ECU, and UNCC need to start field hockey teams.
Anyway, congrats on another great season. Good luck Coach, may the off-season clinics and youth tournaments go well. See you at Shooting Stars in a few weeks. And I hope App and ODU schedule at least one game in Boone during my daughter's time at ODU (that is the real reason I want a SBC field hockey league by the way)