Princeton University Athletics
Four Tigers Earn Earn Field Hockey All-America Honors
November 19, 2001 | Field Hockey
Nov. 19, 2001
PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton field hockey team has placed four players on the 2001 STX/NFHCA Division I All-America team, as was announced on Nov. 19. Juniors Emily Townsend (Houston, Texas), Kelly Baril (Peabody, Mass.) and Ilvy Friebe (Bonn, Germany) were each first-team All-America selections. Sophomore Claire Miller (Scarsdale, N.Y.) was named to the third team.
A unanimous first-team All-Ivy pick, Friebe was also unanimously selected as the 2001 Ivy League Player of the Year after being named the league's Player of the Week four times during the season. She has led the nation in points, points per game, goals and goals per game throughout the season and is also tied for 14th in assists and assists per game. Friebe established new Ivy League records for points (37) and goals (15) in a season, and broke the Princeton record for goals in a season, previously held by Honda Broderick Award finalist and Ivy Player of the Year, Kirsty Hale '99. She finished the year with 72 points (30g, 12a) and was a second-team regional All-America in 2000. Townsend, a first-team All-Ivy and Mid-Atlantic Regional All-America selection, was the only returning starter in the Tigers' defensive corp and has been its leader all season. She finished the season second on the team in scoring with 26 points (11g, 4a) and was one of three Princeton players to be unanimously selected to the first-team All-Ivy. Townsend was a second-team All-America in 2000.
Baril has played 1287 minutes in the cage for the Tigers and has a .761 save percentage and a 1.52 goals-against average. Most recently she posted nine first-half saves in the 2-1 win over Old Dominion in the second round of the NCAA tournament and seven second-half saves in the 4-2 loss to Michigan. Baril was a second-team All-America selection in 2000.
Miller is fourth on the team in scoring with 21 points (3g, 15a). A unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection and a first-team Mid-Atlantic All-America, Miller is tied for third in the nation is assists and is second in the country in assists per game, as of Nov. 13
Princeton's (17-3) season came to a close with a 4-2 loss to Michigan, the eventual national champion, in the opening game of the Final Four.