Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Friday Statwatch, where we make comparisons across eras, celebrate individual and team achievements, and give you all interesting stories behind the numbers.
Today, we’re going to focus a team statistics. Watertown (Mass.), ably coached by the legendary Eileen Donahue, has made itself into one of the finest defensive programs in the history of the sport. The Raiders have two shutout streaks of 30 games or greater, which is absolutely phenomenal.
But even moreso is the fact that the Raiders, currently on an 81-game winning streak heading into last night’s game against Wakefield (Mass.) Memorial, possesses three unbeaten streaks of 77 games or greater. Which makes you wonder: what is Watertown’s record between the start of their 184-game unbeaten streak in 2009 to the the current day? As far as we can figure out, the Raiders have only had four defeats in their last 313 matches dating back to September 2009.
Yep, four. That’s a rate of success which rivals Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) in the heart of their dynastic run from 2000 to 2022, and it is something to be celebrated.
Below is a compilation of available field hockey statistics through last Wednesday from available sources such as Berks Game Day, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Jersey Advance Media, the governing bodies of Kentucky and Michigan, and, of course, the easy-to-use MaxPreps.com platform. I encourage you to get your fellow teams to enter their information there as well as whichever is your local news site, so that we can aim for as complete a statistical picture of the country as possible.
MOST GOALS, SEASON
27 Bella Boyle, Hazleton (Pa.) Area
22 Paige Perkhon, Falls Church George C. Marshall (Va.)
21 Ceci Flowers, Louisville Kentucky Country Day (Ky.)
20 Sadie Nawarynski, Emmaus (Pa.)
20 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
18 Andie Weidman, Marvin Ridge (N.C.)
18 Meg Tebben, Charlotte (N.C.) Catholic
17 Raena Crandall, Franklin (Mass.)
17 Alexa Cardone, Newtown Square Delaware County Christian (Pa.)
16 Eleanor Beam, Louisville Kentucky Country Day (Ky.)
16 Victoria Derdoy, Ladue Horton Watkins (Mo.)
16 Jordan Byers, Elliottsburg West Perry (Pa.)
15 Aida Ierubono, Doylestown Central Bucks West (Pa.)
15 Gracie Huffer, Emmaus (Pa.)
15 Lauren Campisano, Louisville Assumption (Ky.)
15 Trudy Redmond, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
MOST ASSISTS, SEASON
17 Autumn Kernechel, Emmaus (Pa.)
16 Ava Parson, Louisville Mercy (Ky.)
15 Olivia Pifer, Louisville Mercy (Ky.)
15 Stella Shuman, Louisville DuPont Manual (Ky.)
15 Emmy Horner, Emmaus (Pa.)
15 Hannah Ponciroli, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
12 Lillian Willis, South Glens Falls (N.Y.)
11 Scarlette Gilner, Chapel Hill (N.C.)
11 Addie Gagnon, State College (Pa.)
11 Sloan Fenton, Shaker Heights (Ohio)
11 Katie Crump, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
11 Mallory Jerlicky, St. Louis Mary Institute-Country Day School (Mo.)
CAREER GOALS
174 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
150 Molly Driscoll, Watertown (Mass.)/Andover Phillips Academy (Mass.)
131 Krista Lilienthal, Pompton Lakes (N.J.)
CAREER ASSISTS
105 Sammie Goin, Ashburn Independence (Va.)
101 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
CONSECUTIVE WINS
81 Watertown (Mass.)
73 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)
CONSECUTIVE UNBEATEN
81 Watertown (Mass.)
73 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)
ACTIVE COACHING VICTORIES
1077 Susan Butz-Stavin, Emmaus (Pa.)
762 Eileen Donahue, Watertown (Mass.)
728 Sharon Sarsen, Shrub Oak Lakeland (N.Y.)
As much as we try, we know there are a lot of holes in this knowledge. If you see something missing, please, please send an email to us at TopOfTheCircle.com. Include some backup (a website link will do), and we can make an edit.
Thanks for stopping in for a quick read; we’ll see you next week for another round of Statwatch.
