Davey, Yeager Named Ivy Players Of The Year; 10 Tigers Honored In All

On this election day, there is at least one candidate who has earned unanimous approval.

Princeton’s Beth Yeager was a unanimous selection as the Ivy League’s Offensive Player of the Year, as voted on by the league’s coaches. Yeager, a sophomore who has now won two Ivy Offensive Player of the Year awards, was also a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection for the second straight year.

Hannah Davey was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, as well as a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection as well. Davey is now a three-time first-team All-Ivy League pick after earning second-team as a freshman.

Princeton in all had 10 honorees after a season that saw the team go 13-4 overall and a perfect 7-0 in the Ivy League. Sammy Popper was named a first-team All-Ivy pick as well, giving her two first-team and one second-team honor for her career.

Grace Schulze and Gabby Andretta were named second-team All-Ivy. Ophelie Bemelmans, Robyn Thompson and Ali McCarthy were honorable mention picks, and Sam Davidson was the team’s Academic All-Ivy pick.

Carla Tagliente was named the league Coach of the Year.

Yeager leads the Ivy League in goals per game with 0.75, after having 12 in 16 games, and in points, with 32. She’s also 12th in Division I in points per game and 16th in Division I in goals per game. A first-team All-American a year ago, she is the seventh Princeton field hockey player to win multiple Ivy Player of the Year awards in a career and the second Ivy Player, along with Princeton's Katie Reinprecht, to win as both a freshman and sophomore.

Davey had a goal and four assists, but her impact is felt all over the field. She is a monster in the transition game, with her ability to clear the ball from the circle and to move the ball from defense to offense and even to get into the offensive circle on the other end after controlling the ball for 40 or 50 yard runs or making long, strong, sharp passes upfield on a dime.

Popper is second on the Princeton team and fourth in the Ivy League in goals (nine) and points (20). She has a proven history of scoring big goals and big times, including the game-winner against Penn and the goal that sealed the win over Brown to give Princeton the league title and NCAA bid.

Andretta was a first-team All-Ivy defender a year ago, and her game was even better this season as she was again the rock for the Tigers. A senior who has started every game Princeton has played in her career, Andretta consistently kept Tiger opponents from getting penalty corners and was a major reason why the Tigers outshot their opponents by 60 for the season.

Schulze had a huge breakout sophomore year, with five goals and nine assists to rank fifth in the league in both points and assists. She had no goals and two assists in the first 10 games, and since then she has had all five of her goals and seven of her assists in seven games.

Bemelmans led the Ivy League in assists with 11, a total that also ranks 15th in Division I. Thompson had a .731 save percentage that ranked second in the Ivy League. McCarthy, a senior who had three goals and five assists, had a season that was slowed by injuries or else she would have likely repeated her first-team All-Ivy selection from a year ago.

Davidson, who is third on Princeton in goals after going 7 for 7 on penalty strokes, has a near-perfect GPA in sociology.

Tagliente was honored as Ivy Coach of the Year for the third time.

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

*Beth Yeager, Princeton (So., M – Greenwich, Conn.)

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Hannah Davey, Princeton (Sr., D – Derbyshire, England)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Bronte-May Brough, Harvard (Fr., D - Uttoxeter, England)

COACH OF THE YEAR

Carla Tagliente, Princeton

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY

*Beth Yeager, Princeton (So., M – Greenwich, Conn.)
*Kitty Chapple, Harvard (Fr., M – Somerset, England)
*Caroline Ramsey, Cornell (Sr., D – New Vernon, N.J.)
*Bronte-May Brough, Harvard (Fr., D - Uttoxeter, England)
*Hannah Davey, Princeton (Sr., D – Derbyshire, England)
Ellie Shahbo, Harvard (Sr., GK – Surrey, England)
Lucy Adams, Brown (Fr., M – Andover, Mass)
Sammy Popper, Princeton (Sr., F – Blue Bell, Pa.)
Theodora Dillman, Yale (Sr., M – Lancaster, Pa.)
Gracyn Banks, Penn (Sr., D – Burlington, N.J.)
Lexi Pellegrino, Brown (Fr., F – Westwood, Mass.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY

Aerin Park, Cornell (Sr., GK – Surrey, B.C.)
Emily Guckian, Harvard (So., M – Waybridge, England)
MK Myklebust, Columbia (Fr., M – Los Gatos, Calif.)

Holley Cromwell, Dartmouth (Sr., F – Virginia Beach, Va.)

Allison Kuszyk, Penn (Jr., F – Vancouver, B.C.)

Grace Schulze, Princeton (Jr., F – Greenwich, Conn.)

Julia Darmo, Cornell (Sr., M – Moorestown, N.J.)

Bronwyn Bird, Dartmouth (Jr., M – West Vancouver, B.C.)
Courtney Kenah, Penn (So., M – Souderton, Pa.)

Alissa Wong, Yale (Sr., M – West Vancouver, B.C.)
Maya Walker, Columbia (Jr., D – Greenwich, Conn.)
Gabby Andretta, Princeton (Sr., D – Harding, N.J.)

HONORABLE MENTION

Claire Jones, Cornell (Sr., F – New London, Pa.)

Olivia Hoover, Harvard (Sr., F – Collegeville, Pa.)

Kate Oliver, Harvard (Fr., F – St. Louis, Mo.)

Ali McCarthy, Princeton (Sr., F – Madison, N.J.)

Lily Ramsey, Yale (So., F – Summit, N.J.)

Hatley Post, Dartmouth (Sr., GK – Houston, Texas)

Robyn Thompson, Princeton (Jr., GK – Herne, Kent, England)

Lindsey Yu, Columbia (So., M – Montville, N.J.)

Sophie Freedman, Penn (So., M – Greenwich, Conn.)

Ophélie Bemelmans, Princeton (Sr., M – Riemst, Limburg, Belgium)

Julia Hitti, Brown (So., D – Ashland, Mass.)

Olivia Galiotos, Dartmouth (Fr., D – West Vancouver, B.C.)

Siofra Murdoch, Harvard (Jr., D – Dublin, Ireland)

Meghan McGinley, Penn (So., D – Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)

*Unanimous selection

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