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2023 MIT Field Hockey Roster

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21 Paige Forester

  • Position F
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School North Shore Country Day School
  • Hometown Glencoe, Ill.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career Highs
Goals 4
vs. Mount Holyoke (Sept. 28, 2019)
vs. Springfield (Sept. 25, 2021)
Assists 3 vs. WPI (Oct. 29, 2022)
at Gordon (Sept. 2, 2023)
Points 9 vs. Springfield (Sept. 25, 2021)

Accolades:   
- NFHCA All-America (First Team – 2021, 2022; Second Team – 2023) 
- NFHCA Region I All-Region (First Team – 2021, 2022, 2023; Second Team – 2019) 
- College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-America Second Team (2024)
- College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-District Team (2024) 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NEWMAC All-Conference First Team (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Year (2021, 2022) 
- NFHCA National Academic Squad (2020, 2021, 2022) 
- NFHCA Region I Player of the Year (2021) 
- NEWMAC Rookie of the Year (2019) 
- 2023 NFHCA Senior Team  
- NFHCA Division III Offensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention (Sept. 27, 2023)
- NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week (Sept. 9, 2019; Sept. 27, 2021; Sept. 12, 2022; Sept. 26, 2022; Oct. 17, 2022; Sept. 4, 2023) 
- Set the MIT record for career goals (85)
- Set the MIT record for career points (205) 
- Graduated tied for second in career assists (35) 
- 25-Year All-NEWMAC Team (Announced Fall 2022)

2023:
- Started all 19 games 
- Recorded 19 goals, including four game-winners, and nine assists for 47 points 
- Tallied hat tricks versus Springfield (Sept. 23) and Wheaton (Sept. 30)
- Produced one goal and three assists against Gordon (Sept. 2)  
- Ranked seventeenth in the nation for points per game and twentieth for goals per game 
- Ranked first in the NEWMAC for goals, second in points and game-winning goals, fourth in shots on goal, and fifth in assists and shots

2022:
- Started all 21 games
- Posted 18 goals, including six game-winners, and 10 assists for 46 points
- Recorded hat tricks versus Western New England (Sept. 10) and Springfield (Sept. 24), tallied one goal and three assists against WPI (Oct. 29)
- Led the NEWMAC in goals, assists, and points

2021:
- Started all 18 games
- Generated 24 goals, including five game-winners, 12 assists, and 60 points
- Tallied four goals and an assist at Springfield (Sept. 25), produced three goals and two assists against Husson (Sept. 11), and posted a hat trick versus Clark (Oct. 5)
- Ranked second in Division III in points per game (3.33), fourth in goals per game (1.33), and 13th in assists per game (0.67)
- Ranked first in the NEWMAC in goals and points, second in game-winning goals, and third in assists

2020:
- Did not play as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:
- Started all 20 games
- Recorded 24 goals, including four game-winners, four assists, and 52 points
- Scored four goals against Mount Holyoke (Sept. 28) and had hat tricks versus Lasell (Sept. 12) and Wheaton (Oct. 8)
- Ranked first in the NEWMAC in goals and points, and sixth in game-winning goals

Favorite Sports Memory:
- My Senior Day game vs WPI at MIT in 2022, celebrating with our team and my family.

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- The Middlebury and SUNY Cortland games for our postseason run in the NCAA Tournament in 2022

Off the Field at MIT:
- Currently pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering
- Graduated from MIT in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (concentration in control, instrumentation and robotics) along with a concentration in French
- Internships: SRAM Test Team (automation engineering intern); Draper System Integration and Test intern
- Research: STAR Lab
- Research: Conducted biomimetic research on harbor seal whiskers at MIT Sea Grant
- Research: Conducted research in the Sports Tech Lab on running shoe midsole structures
- Research: Conducted protein purification research at Massachusetts General Hospital
- 2.00B Lab Instructor
- GTL Italy
- MIT Little Beavers Running Club (formerly co-director)
- Levitch Leadership Laboratory
- Alpha Phi sorority
- Hillel student board
- Was a member of MIT’s women’s lacrosse team in 2021

High School:
- Was a captain of the field hockey, soccer, and basketball teams at North Shore Country Day School
- All-State Second Team, Illinois All-Conference, ISL All-Conference
- Three-time Academic All-State for field hockey, IHSA Academic All-State Team Honorable Mention
- Four-time varsity letterwinner, Iron Raider Award
- National Merit finalist cash winner
- AP Scholar with Honor
- Winnetka Club Scholarship Recipient
- Jewish Culture Club co-founder
- Feminist Discussion Group leader
- Freshman mentor

Club:
- Windy City Field Hockey
- Also served as a coach with the team

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2019First Year

    F
    5'10"
    21
  • 21

    2020Sophomore

    F
    5'10"
    21
  • 21

    2021Junior

    F
    5'10"
    21
  • 21

    2022Senior

    F
    6'0"
    21
  • 21

    2023Graduate Student

    F
    6'0"
    21