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2018 Field Hockey Roster
Sophia Tornetta
- Position:
- Striker
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Agnes Irwin School
- Hometown:
- Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
At Princeton:
2018: Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team … First Team All-Ivy … Named PNC Student Athlete Achiever for the 2018 Fall season ... Third on the squad with 18 points … Registered seven goals and four assists … Tied for 10th in the conference in goals … Appeared in all but one game, starting 17 contests … Back-to-back games with a goal vs. No. 14 Wake Forest (Sept. 2) and at No. 5 Penn State (Sept. 4) … Produced an assist vs. No. 4 Duke (Sept. 7) … Tally vs. Monmouth (Sept. 14) that ended up on Sportcenter’s Top 10 plays ... Contributed a helper vs. No. 13 Delaware (Sept. 16) … Snagged a goal vs. Dartmouth (Sept. 22) … Dropped in two goals at Yale (Sept. 28) … Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week (Oct. 1) … Scored vs. No. 9 Harvard (Oct. 20) … Posted an assist on Senior Day vs. Penn (Nov. 3).
2017: Second-Team All-Ivy … Played and started in every game … Recorded four goals, three assists and 11 points along with 45 shots, 18 shots on goal … Multi-shot games at No. 3 Delaware (Sept. 3) and vs. No. 3 Penn State (Sept. 10) … Blasted four shots at No. 4 Duke (Sept. 17) … First point of the season at Dartmouth (Sept. 23) … Back-to-back games with goals vs. No. 1 UConn (Oct. 8) and at Brown (Oct. 14) … Took four shots at Northeastern (Oct. 15) … Multi-goal outing vs. Cornell (Oct. 28) … Had an assist vs. No. 5 Virginia in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (Nov. 11).
2016: Second team All-Mid-Atlantic Region … Second team All-Ivy … Third on the team in points (28) despite missing seven games … Led the squad with 10 assists … Scored on 45 percent of the shots she took (9-of-20) … Registered a point in 10 of her 12 games played … Began the season with goals in three straight (Sept. 4-11) including a two-goal outing vs. Albany (Sept. 9) … Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 12) … Longstreth/NFHCA Division I Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 14) …. Deposited the game-tying tally vs. No. 2 Duke (Oct. 9) in her return … Three-point outing vs. Towson (Oct. 16) … Goals in back-to-back contests vs. Harvard (Oct. 22) and at Cornell (Oct. 29) … Career-high three assists vs. Penn (Nov. 5) … Scored one of the biggest goals in Princeton Field Hockey history as she secured the game-winner vs. No. 7 Virginia (Nov. 13) in the NCAA Quarterfinals as time expired … Helped on both Princeton goals vs. eventual national champion Delaware (Nov. 18) in the NCAA Semifinals.
2015: First team All-Mid-Atlantic Region … Ivy League Rookie of the Year … First team All-Ivy League … Second on the team in points (23), assists (9), shots (25) … Tied for second on the squad in goals (seven) … Finished with two of the Tigers’ seven defensive saves … Started the season with points in five straight games (Sept. 4-20) … Opened collegiate career with a goal vs. No. 2 North Carolina … Followed up with another tally vs. No. 9 Virginia leading to being named Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 8) … Dropped two goals including the game-winner at Dartmouth (Sept. 27) … Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 29) … Goal and assist vs. Columbia (Oct. 9) … Season-high two assists at Harvard (Oct. 24) …Consecutive games with assists vs. Cornell (Oct. 31) and Penn (Nov. 7) … Scored twice in the first round of the NCAA Tournament vs. No. 5 Maryland (Nov. 14).
Before Princeton:
Anges Irwin: Four-year letterwinner at Agnes Irwin … first player in program history to surpass 100-goal plateau (104) … finished career with 73 assists … two-year captain … tallied 42 goals and 27 assists during her senior season … led team to a second-place Inter-Ac finish in 2014 … 2014 Philadelphia Inquirer and All-Delco Field Hockey Player of the Year … three-time All-Mainline and All-Inter-AC first team (2012-14) … two-time All-Delco first team (2013, 2014) … NFHCA All-Region first team (2014) … All-Delco second team (2012) … All-Mainline second team and All-Delco honorable mention in 2011 … two-time Agnes Irwin Most Valuable Player (2013, 2014) … also lettered in track & field.
Club Experience: Played for WC Eagles … NCC Club Championship U-16 (2013) and U-19 (2014, 2015) gold medalist … NIT Pool A U-14 (2011), U-16 (2012, 2013), and U-19 (2014, 2015) champions … Disney Mickey Flight first-place U-16 (2012, 2013) and U-19 (2015) showing … Festival U-16 (2011, 2012) and U-19 (2013) pool champions.
Academic: 2014 Congressional Scholar-Athlete … four-year high honors recipient … also a member of several student organizations, including: Athletic Association Board, Cradles to Crayons, and Lower School Helpers.
Personal: Daughter of Paul and Sherry Tornetta … has a younger brother, Andrew … has two sisters, Olivia and Julianna.
National/Regional Team Experience:
Member of U-21 junior national team … Helped U-21 squad to Junior Pan American Games Silver Medal and fifth place in the Junior World Cup (2016) ... Competed in junior national team’s Holland Tour (2015) … Pan Am Youth Championship bronze medalist (Uruguay – 2014) … member of U-17 junior national team in 2013 … USA Field Hockey Future Elite (2012-15) … US Field Hockey Junior Olympics Selection (2011-13) … Junior Olympic gold medalist (2012).
Career Highs:
Shots – 7, vs. Cornell (Oct. 28, 2017)
Goals – 2, 5x, MR – at Yale (Sept. 28, 2018)
Assists – 3, vs. Penn (Nov. 5, 2016)
Points – 5, vs. No. 12 Albany (Sept. 9, 2016)
