Westwood, Mass. (November 4) – The nationally-ranked No. 12 MIT field hockey team saw a league-high 16 student-athletes earn a spot on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team as announced by the conference on Friday. This was the second year in a row the Engineers collected 16 awards and the fourth as tops in the league. A total of 82 student-athletes were honored by the NEWMAC.
 
To be eligible, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or a 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2022 spring semester, must have achieved second year academic status at their institution and have been a member of the varsity team for the entire season.
 
MIT Honorees
Carly Briggs (Sr., Lexington, Mass.)
Faith Choe (So., San Diego, Calif.)
Jordan Dattero (So. East Setauket, N.Y.)
Anna Duncan (So., St. Louis, Mo.)
Paige Forester (Sr., Glencoe, Ill.)
Liberty Ladd (Sr., Falmouth, Maine)
Ashley Lederman (So., Villanova, Pa.)
Avani Narula (So., Malvern, Pa.)
Eva Oppenheim (So., Larkspur, Calif.)
Lydia Patterson (Jr., Houston, Texas)
Erica Radler (Sr., Wayne, N.J.)
Laura Schwendeman (Sr., Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Anna Simmons (So., Wilmington, N.C.)
Kiely Smiga-McManus (Sr., Etna, N.H.)
Sarah Stoops (So., Los Altos, Calif.)
Alice Zehner (So., Gladwyne, Pa.)
 
Briggs, Forester, Ladd, Radler, and Schwendeman received their third NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team award while Patterson and Smiga-McManus were repeat honorees.
 
No. 2 seeded MIT continues its postseason push when it travels to nationally-ranked No. 10 and top-seed Babson College for the NEWMAC Championship on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 12:00 p.m.
 
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