Yeager Is Ivy League's First Four-Time First-Team All-American; Cashman Also Honored

Beth Yeager, once again, has done something no other Ivy League field hockey player has ever done.

In this case, she has become the first player in league history to be a four-time first-team All-American. Beyond that, she has joined an exclusive club of only eight members who have ever been named first-team All-American by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association.

Yeager earned her fourth first-team selection when the team was announced Tuesday morning. Her junior teammate Ella Cashman was the only other Princeton player among the 48 honorees across three teams when she was named a second-team All-American.

Princeton went 18-4 this season, winning the Ivy League tournament championship and advancing all the way to the NCAA final, where it fell 2-1 in double overtime to a Northwestern team that had three first-team All-Americans and five total. The other three Final Four teams — Northwestern, Harvard and North Carolina — combined for 14 All-Americans.

Yeager led Princeton with 15 goals and 40 points making her one of only two players in Division I to be in double figures in both each of the last two seasons. She was named the Mid-Atlantic Regional Player of the Year last week, making her the first Princeton player to earn that honor twice.

Yeager was the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Year and a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection, both for the fourth straight year. She was also the Most Outstanding Player at the Ivy League tournament and an NCAA Final Four all-tournament team selection.

She also had nine game-winning goals, including late goals to defeat Harvard in the Ivy tournament final and Syracuse in the NCAA quarterfinals to send the Tigers to the Final Four. She scored Princeton's only goal in the NCAA final.

Ella Cashman is a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection and the only Princeton player to be named to the Ivy League all-tournament team each of the three years the event has been held. She had three goals and three assists while primarily being a defensive midfielder and mainstay on the penalty corner defensive unit.

A first-team All-Region selection, Cashman also played in the two Final Four games despite having completely torn her ACL in the Ivy final against Harvard.

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