Kelly Hood Named Ivy League Player of the Week

Ivy League Release

HANOVER, N.H. - After an impressive 16-point weekend in two wins for the Dartmouth field hockey team, sophomore Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the first time this season.

Hood collected an amazing 16 points on seven goals and two assists. Against Brown in an 8-3 win, she set the Ivy League single game goal record with five goals, all coming on penalty corners, and tied the Ivy record for points in a game with 10. She followed that performance with a six-point game in the 4-2 win over Bryant. Hood factored in every score with two goals and two assists. Currently she ranks first in the Ivy League in goals per game with 1.2. Hood has 21 points on the season which is a new career-high after collecting 20 points a season ago.

The previous record of goals scored in an Ivy League match was four, which has occurred four times in the history of the League: Penn's Patti Vivial (Oct. 13, 1984) and Judy Jaczun (Sept. 23, 1989); Brown's Tara Mounsey (Oct. 23, 1999) and Dartmouth's Rebekka Stucker (Nov. 1, 2003). Hood's feat also tied the record for total points in a game (10), sharing the mark with Vivial (4g, 2a on Oct. 13, 1984).

Junior Virginia Peisch (Koenigstein, Germany) was also recognized by the Ivy League with an appearance on the honor roll after tying the Ivy League single game assist record. She posted four assists in the win over Brown and its the first time in almost six years a player has racked up four helpers in a game. Peisch ended up with six assists on the weekend and scored her second goal of the season against the Bears as well.

Peisch joins a pair of Dartmouth graduates, Averill Doering and Lindsay Gossage atop the list of Assists in an Ivy League game. Both Doering and Gossage were named to the list as a result of a 4-3 win against Harvard on Nov. 1, 2003.

Dartmouth will be back in action on Wednesday as the Big Green travels north to Vermont for a 3 p.m. start against the Catamounts.

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