Geneva, N.Y. (February 9) – For the second year in a row, the MIT field hockey team placed 16 student-athletes on the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) National Academic Squad as announced by the organization on Thursday. The NFHCA National Academic Squad program, sponsored by OPA Winning Teams, honors collegiate student-athletes who have achieved a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher through the first semester of the current academic year, and were nominated by their NFHCA member coach.
 
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, Schwendeman, and Smiga-McManus received their third NFHCA National Academic Squad award while Patterson was a repeat honoree.
 
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