Princeton Has Six Named To U.S. Field Hockey Squads

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton Tigers had six players named to U.S. Field Hockey teams, the organization announced.

Maddie Bacskai, MaryKate Neff and Julianna Tornetta were picked for the U.S. U-21 squad while Sophia Tornetta was selected for the development team. Incoming freshmen Sam Davidson and Sam Popper were honored with U-19 selections.

The U-21 group will meet three times in the next two months for training camps in preparation for their tour to Germany from April 14-22. In Monchengladbach, the U-21 unit will take on Germany's and Great Britain's U-21 groups. The national development crew will have one training camp in February and two in March as it preps for an tour to The Netherlands from April 13-22. During the tour, it will compete against the Scotland national and Belgium's U-21 teams. The U-19 program will travel to Dusseldorf to take on Germany's U-18 and Belgium's U-18 teams.

Athletes were selected from the 2018 Young Women's National Championship in June for further evaluation at last summer's Junior National Camp and at the December and January training camps.

Those named to the U.S. National Development Squad were selected through the 2018 Young Women's National Championship route or as a result of their performances at their trial last week, where athletes were recommended by their college coach, competed for a rostered spot within the Olympic Development Pipeline.

Princeton finished 15-5 overall and reached the NCAA Final Four for the second time in three years. More than half of their victories (eight) came against ranked opponents, leading them to be named the No. 3 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.

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