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2019 Women's Soccer

10 Chessa Hoekstra

  • Position F
  • Height 5-2
  • Class Senior
  • High School Portland
  • Hometown Portland, Maine
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

Career Highs
Goals3vs. Salem State (October 19, 2017)
Assists2vs. Roger Williams (September 11, 2018)
Points6vs. Salem State (October 19, 2017)
Shots7vs. Lesley (September 5, 2018)


2019: [SEASON STATS]
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team
- NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week (Sept. 16)
- Appeared in 20 matches as a senior
- Posted five goals and two assists for 12 points
- Four of her five goals were game winners
- Ranks first all-time at MIT in appearances with 90 over four years
- Helped MIT lead NCAA Division III as a team in goals against average (.162), save percentage (.941) and shutout percentage (.833)
- Offensively as a team ranked in the top ten nationally in goals, shots on goal per game, points, shots per game and assists
- Helped MIT break ten team records and to its third straight NEWMAC title
- Led MIT to its highest ranking in program history at No. 5 in the United Soccer Coaches D3 National Poll

2018:
[SEASON STATS]
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Posted four goals and a career-high six assists for 14 points this season
- Was part of a team that won its second straight NEWMAC Championship

2017: [SEASON STATS]
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division III National Women’s Soccer Athlete of the Week
- Registered a career-high nine goals, two assists and 20 points
- Notched her first collegiate hat trick in a 7-1 win over Salem State on September 19
- Was part of a team that had its best season in program history (20-2-1), reached the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the first time since 2012, won the NEWMAC Championship for the first time since 2011 and registered its highest national ranking of No. 12 in the United Soccer Division III poll

2016: [SEASON STATS]
- Registered two goals, the first two of her collegiate career as both came in a 7-2 victory over Smith on October 15
- Aided MIT women’s soccer to its best season in program history (17-6-1), to its fifth straight NEWMAC Regular Season Championship and its sixth appearance in the NCAA Tournament

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning the NEWMAC Championship

Off the Field at MIT: 
- Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science
- Boston Bruins Performance Analytics Intern
- Intern at Apple
- In the MIT Research Lab for Electronics Speech Lab did a UROP for data analysis of speech and pitch accents in natural language processing
- UPOP
- Undergraduate TA in the EECS department
- Undergraduate Advisory Group to the EECS Board
- Big Brother Big Sister
- Global Teaching Labs
- Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program

High School:
- A 2016 graduate of Portland High School
- Valedictorian
- Four-time soccer varsity letterwinner
- Two-time indoor and outdoor track and field letterwinner
- Two-year captain of the varsity soccer team
- Two-time SMAA All-Conference Girls Soccer First Team
- SMAA Soccer Academic Team
- Maine Soccer Coaches Regional All-Star North A Team
- Portland Forecaster Fall Female Athlete of the Year
- Portland Varsity Player's Choice MVP
- SMAA Citizenship Award for Portland High Female
- SMAA Outdoor Track State Qualifier in 100m, 200m and javelin
- SMAA Indoor Track State Qualifier in the 55m and 200m
- National Honor Society
- Class of 2016 Executive Board
- Math Team
- African Schoolhouse Club
- Academic Decathlon
- Semi-High Tech U Program at Fairchild Semi-Conductor
- Anatomy of Leadership Program
- Ski and Snowboard Club
- Earned High Honor Roll every quarter
- Medusa Mythology Exam Corona Olivae Award in 2014 and Laurea Award in 2015
- Yale Book Award
- AP Scholar With Honor
- PHS Grade 11 Math Award
- National Classical Etymology Exam Silver Medal
- CANE Essay Writing Contest Second Place
- Rosenthal Scholarship
- Preti Watch Award
- National Merit Scholar for PSAT

Club: 
- GPS-ME Portland Phoenix U18 Elite
- Captain

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 16

    2016First Year

    F
    5'1"
    16
  • 16

    2017Sophomore

    F
    5'1"
    16
  • 10

    2018Junior

    F
    5'1"
    10
  • 10

    2019Senior

    F
    5'2"
    10