Mariah Keopple

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Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Defender
Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
High School:
Hill-Murray
Hometown:
Menomonie, Wis.

Awards
2023 Honorable Mention All-Ivy League
2023 ECAC All-Academic Team
2022 Second-Team All-Ivy League
2022 ECAC All-Academic Team
2020 ECAC All-Academic Team
2019 ECAC All-Rookie Team

At Princeton
2022-23
Earned honorable mention All-Ivy League honors ... served as an assistant captain ... had two goals and 13 assists for 15 points on the season ... both goals came against Rensselaer, first in a 5-1 win on the road on Dec. 3 and then to give Princeton a 2-1 lead in an eventual 4-3 win at home on Feb. 11 ... had a pair of two-assist games, first in a 6-5 win over Mercyhurst on Dec. 9 and then in an 11-3 win over No. 4 Quinnipiac on Jan. 29 ... took 50 shots on the season and blocked 37 ... took nine penalties for 18 minutes ... led team with a +16 plus-minus.

2021-22
Earned second-team All-Ivy League honors ... ECAC All-Academic Team ... played in 31 games ... scored goals against St. Lawrence (Jan. 8) and RPI (Feb. 1) ... goal against RPI was the overtime game-winner ... had five assists on the season, including a two-assist game at Brown (Oct. 30); also had assists against Cornell (Jan. 28) and in back-to-back games against Dartmouth (Feb. 13) and Brown (Feb. 18) ... blocked a team-best 46 shots on the season ... took 63 shots on goal.

2020-21
Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20
Scored the game-winning goal in overtime as Princeton beat No. 1 Cornell to win the program's first ECAC tournament title ... ECAC All-Academic ... finished second on the team in scoring among defenders and sixth overall, scoring 16 points with five goals and 11 assists ... had two assists each against Saint Anselm on Jan. 4 and Brown on Feb. 21 while getting a goal and an assist at Dartmouth on Jan. 10 ... also had goals against Syracuse on Oct. 25, Harvard on Nov. 8, Ohio State on Dec. 14 ... also had assists Nov. 22 against Clarkson, Dec. 7 against Colgate, Dec. 15 against Ohio State, Feb. 7 against Rensselaer, Feb. 8 against Union, and Feb. 28 against Quinnipiac ... played in 31 games, blocked 35 shots, finished +9 on the season ... took 65 shots on goal ... team qualified for the NCAA Championships, but the event was canceled by the NCAA due to the COVID-19 virus.

2018-19
Skated in all 33 games and totaled 14 points on three goals and 11 assists ... led the team in blocked shots with 51 ... took 63 shots and eight penalties ... finished a +10 ... had her first career point in her first career game, a 4-3 loss at No. 2 Wisconsin ... scored in a 6-0 shutout of Colgate on Nov. 16 and added an assist the next day in a 2-2 draw with No. 6 Cornell ... scored a goal and assisted on the game winner at Rensselaer on Dec. 7 ... chipped in an assist in a win over Merrimack on Dec. 31 ... had two assists, including on the game winner, in a 5-2 win at Dartmouth ... added an assist in 4-2 victory over Penn State .... scored in an 8-2 decision at Brown ... had an assist in a 4-1 win over Union on Feb. 15 ... earned an assist in a 5-2 loss at No. 5 Clarkson on Feb. 22 ... picked up an assist in a 6-2 win over St. Lawrence in Game 2 of the ECAC playoffs ... added an assist in a loss to No. 2 Minnesota in the NCAA quarterfinals ... ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team

Before Princeton: Played four years of varsity hockey at Hill-Murray on the girls team after playing her youth hockey on boys teams in Menomonie, Wisc. ... Hill-Murray qualified for the Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament all four years with the team winning the state championship her freshman year ... captain as a senior and collected 74 career points ... attended several USA Hockey Player Development camps ... invited to the Elite 66 Camp for USA Hockey in 2017 ... an alternate for the USA U18 Team.

Personal: Full name is Mariah Maxine Keopple ... daughter of Aaron and Joy Keopple ... Aaron is a business owner and Joy is an Executive Assistant at Apogee Enterprises ... has a younger brother Remington, who started in goal on the Hill-Murray varsity hockey team ... majoring in psychology.