Princeton University Athletics
Yeager Named Unanimous Ivy Off. Player Of The Year; Cashman, Houlden Also First-Team; Eight Tigers Honored In All
November 06, 2024 | Field Hockey
When you have more than twice as many points as every other player in the league except for one and have nearly twice as many as that lone outlier, your odds of being the league's Offensive Player of the Year are pretty good. For Beth Yeager, that's exactly what happened — unanimously.
Yeager, the Princeton junior, was named the Ivy League's top offensive player for the third time in her career in a unanimous vote of the league's coaches. Yeager was also a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection for the third time in her career.
Yeager was one of three Princeton players to earn first-team All-Ivy League honors, along with sophomore midfielder Ella Cashman and freshman defender Clem Houlden.
Senior goalie Robyn Thompson and junior forward Talia Schenck were second-team selections, and senior forward Grace Schulze, freshman midfielder Anna Faulstich and sophomore defender Ottilie Sykes were all honorable mention selections. Schulze was also the team’s Academic All-Ivy League choice.
Princeton head coach Carla Tagliente, associate head coach Dina Rizzo and assistant coaches Pattie Gillern and Pat Harris were voted the league’s Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the Tigers to a perfect 7-0 Ivy record and the No. 1 seed in this weekend’s Ivy tournament.
Beth Yeager’s honors were hardly shocking. Returning to Princeton after starting every game for the U.S. Olympic team this past summer, Yeager finished the regular season with 15 goals and nine assists for 39 points, which would be 17 more than the next-best total and more than twice as many as any other player. Yeager enters the Ivy tournament ranking sixth in Division I in points per game and seventh in Division I in goals per game.
Ella Cashman tied for second on the team with four goals while also being one of the leaders of the defense that leads the league in fewest goals allowed. Cashman was a second-team selection last season.
Clem Houlden came in and started every game on defense. She also led all Princeton field players in minutes played while playing every minute of 12 out of 16 games.
Talia Schenck has scored four goals and added three assists for 11 points this season. She was also a second-team All-Ivy selection last year.
Robyn Thompson, who earned All-Ivy honors for the third time, is fifth all-time at Princeton in career wins with 37 and sixth all-time at Princeton is career shutouts with 13.
Freshman Anna Faulstich started all 16 games in the midfield, where she quickly became one of the team’s best at turning the field over from defense to offense. Faulstich has two assists to date.
Grace Schulze was a second-team selection two years ago who missed almost the entire 2023 season with an injury. She bounced back to have three goals and six assists, and her 12 points were second on the team.
Ottilie Sykes also started all 16 games on defense. A first-team All-Ivy pick last year, Sykes had two goals and an assist, including the game-winning goal in OT against Delaware, in addition to her role on the league’s top defensive unit.
2024 IVY LEAGUE ALL-IVY FIELD HOCKEY TEAMS
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Beth Yeager, Princeton (Jr., M – Greenwich, Conn.)*
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Katie Wimmer, Columbia (Sr., GK – Windham, N.H.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Chiara Picciafuoco, Yale (Fr., F – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Princeton*
FIRST TEAM^
Lucy Adams, Brown (Jr., M – Andover, Mass.)*
Mia Karine Myklebust, Brown (So., M – Los Gatos, Calif.)
Katie Wimmer, Columbia (Sr., GK – Windham, N.H.)
Claire Wolfe, Cornell (5th, M – Garnet Valley, Pa.)
Lara Beekhuis, Harvard (So., F – Laren, Netherlands)
Bronte-May Brough, Harvard (Jr., D – Uttoxeter, England)*
Beth Yeager, Princeton (Jr., M – Greenwich, Conn.)*
Ella Cashman, Princeton (So., D – Surbiton, England)
Clem Houlden, Princeton (Fr., D – Bristol, England)
Poppy Beales, Yale (Jr., F – King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England)
Chiara Picciafuoco, Yale (Fr., F – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Hettie Whittington, Yale (So., D – Guildford, Surrey, England)
SECOND TEAM^
Julia Hitti, Brown (Sr., D – Ashland, Mass.)
Jacinta Solari Etcheberry, Columbia (Fr., M -
Olivia Galiotos, Dartmouth (Jr., D/M – Virginia Beach, Va.)
Emily Guckian, Harvard (Sr., M – Weybridge, England)
Kitty Chapple, Harvard (Jr., M – Somerset, England)
Kate Oliver, Harvard (Jr., F – St. Louis, Mo.)
Sage Piekarski, Harvard (So., F – Concord, Mass.)
Meghan McGinley, Penn (Sr., D – Plymouth Meeting, Pa.)
Julia Ryan, Penn (Jr., M – Brookline, Mass.)
Talia Schenck, Princeton (Jr., F – Lawrenceville, N.J.)
Robyn Thompson, Princeton (Sr., GK – Herne, Kent, England)
Victoria Collee, Yale (Fr., M – Laren, Netherlands)
HONORABLE MENTION
Katie McCallum, Brown (Sr., F – Blue Bell, Pa.)
Imogen Govan, Brown (Sr., M – Oakville, Ontario)
Lindsey Yu, Columbia (Sr., M – Montville, N.J.)
Martha Broderick, Cornell (So., GK – Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England)
Grace Leahy, Cornell (Jr., M – Waterloo, Ontario)
Lucia Campaño, Dartmouth (So., M – Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Lucy Leel, Harvard (Sr., F – London, England)
Tessa Shahbo, Harvard (Jr., GK – Surrey, England)
Ottilie Sykes, Princeton (So., D – Milton, England)
Grace Schulze, Princeton (Sr., F – Greenwich, Conn.)
Anna Faulstich, Princeton (Fr., M – Bromley, England)
Lily Ramsey, Yale (Sr., F – Summit, N.J.)
Emma Ramsey, Yale (So., M – Summit, N.J.)
*Unanimous selection
^Teams expanded due to ties in voting
