Hi, everyone.
Welcome back to what has become our Friday tradition, our feature called Statwatch. What we try to do is cull field hockey statistics from all over the United States to give you, the reader, a perspective on the game of field hockey over an historical timeline. Well, as much of a timeline as we can manage, given the fact that statistics in field hockey were rarely aggregated or published before 1980.
When it comes to offense, the last 15 years has seen an unprecedented mushrooming of offensive production. Since 2010, three players have breached the 300-goal barrier for a career, a number of players have recorded 100 or more assists, and one player, Haley Schleicher, had more than 200 goals and 200 assists in a stellar career.
But what I have also noticed in the last couple of years is that defenses and goalkeepers have been forced to responding to the assault on the goal-scoring annals. Goalkeepers are now often the best athletes on their teams instead of having to be recruited off another on-campus team, and defenders, especially on penalty corners, are doing yeoman work defensing set plays.
What do we think is going to happen this year? Who knows? But we’ll have fun writing these segements, which will be running most Fridays about the time when every team has played at least a week.
In the red type below is our usual aggregation of American scholastic field hockey statistics, culled from, amongst other sources, MaxPreps, Berks Game Day, the KHSAA, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Advance Media.
We would like to get as many coaches and other field hockey people to register for the MaxPreps.com platform, and we encourage you to get your fellow teams as well as perhaps your conference, league, or your state governing body to enter field hockey information there, so that we can aim for as complete a statistical picture of the country as possible. This goes especially for regions which may have lost their daily local sports coverage due to mergers or shutdowns of daily or weekly papers.
CAREER GOALS
154 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
150 Molly Driscoll, Watertown (Mass.)
130 Krista Lilienthal, Pompton Lakes (N.J.)
CAREER ASSISTS
99 Sammie Goin, Ashburn Independence (Va.)
98 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
CONSECUTIVE WINS
75 Watertown (Mass.)
68 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)
CONSECUTIVE UNBEATEN
75 Watertown (Mass.)
68 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)
ACTIVE COACHING VICTORIES
1067 Susan Butz-Stavin, Emmaus (Pa.)
756 Eileen Donahue, Watertown (Mass.)
723 Sharon Sarsen, Shrub Oak Lakeland (N.Y.)
Once again, we thank you reading Statwatch during past seasons, and we’ll join you in September with our first attempt.
