Dartmouth Field Hockey has Four Named All-Ivy

HANOVER, N.H. – Adding another positive note to its season, the Dartmouth field hockey team had four players rewarded for their stellar play by being named to various All-Ivy teams on Wednesday.

Senior Virginia Peisch (Koenigstein, Germany) and junior Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) were both named to the first team while seniors Claire Byrne (Rye, N.Y.) and Kelly McHenry (Williamsburg, Va.) earned second-team and honorable-mention honors, respectively.

In 13 games, Hood established herself as one of the most dangerous scorers in the country. She recorded 18 goals and three assists for 39 points, including six goals in Ivy play. Her 1.38 goals per game clip ranks third in Div. I, and her 1.50 goals per Ivy game ranks second only to Kathleen Sharkey of Princeton. Hood was also a first team All-Ivy selection as a sophomore and an honorable-mention pick as a freshman. This was the first unanimous selection for Hood, who missed the final four games of the season after being injured on Oct. 16. When she begins her senior campaign in 2011 she will be looking to become Dartmouth's all-time goal scorer and points leader. Hood needs just four goals and 12 points to move into first place in both categories.

Playing in the back and in the midfield, Peisch was the cog that made a Dartmouth offense rank fourth in the country with a 3.70 scoring average. An assist machine, she totaled 21 helpers on the year and, in the six Ivy League games played, she tied for the league lead with seven assists.

Peisch set the school's record for career assists on Sept. 5 when she recorded two in the Big Green's 5-3 come-from-behind win over Missouri State, finishing her career with 52. She also earned first-team honors for the third consecutive year, becoming the 36th player to earn three All-Ivy First-Team honors and just the fourth member of the Big Green to do so (last accomplished at Dartmouth by Carolyn Steele, 2000-2002).

Byrne earned her first-ever league award after she tallied a career-high 17 points in 2010. Bryne roamed the midfield for the Big Green and started all 17 games for Dartmouth with four goals and nine assists. In seven Ivy contests, she recorded three assists while helping lead the Big Green to its first double-digit winning season since 2002.

McHenry finished third on the team in scoring with a career-high 31 points, her second double-digit scoring effort in as many years. She made 16 starts and was second for Dartmouth in shots with 51. Eight of McHenry's points came in Ivy games as the forward recorded a four-point day against Penn, tying her career-high, and also tallied the helper in a 1-0 shutout of Harvard.


Claire Byrne	Kelly McHenry

The full All-Ivy teams are listed below:

First Team All-Ivy
Alex Botte, Cornell (Jr., GK, Carlsbad, Calif.)
Erin Carter, Yale, (Jr., B, Perkiomenville, Pa.)
Michelle Cesan, Princeton (So., M/F, Harding, N.J.)
Catie De Stio, Cornell (Sr., F, Sea Cliff, N.Y.)
*Kelly Hood, Dartmouth (Jr., M, Berlin, N.H.)
*Gabby Kozlowski, Columbia (So., F, Voorhees, N.J.)
*Dinah Landshut, Yale (Jr., M, Hamburg, Germany)
Virginia Peisch, Dartmouth (Sr., B, Koenigstein, Germany)
*Julia Reinprecht, Princeton (So., M, North Wales, Pa.)
*Katie Reinprecht, Princeton (Jr., M, North Wales, Pa.)
*Kathleen Sharkey, Princeton (Jr., F, Moosic, Pa.)

Second Team All-Ivy
Amanda Bird, Princeton, (Fr., B, Vancouver, B.C.)
Erica Borgo, Yale (Fr., F, Randolph, N.J.)
Claire Byrne, Dartmouth (Sr., M, Rye, N.Y.)
Carly Dickson, Harvard (Jr., M, Victoria, B.C.)
Julia Garrison, Columbia (Sr., M, Virginia Beach, Va.)
Georgia Holland, Yale (Fr., M/B, Stony Brook, N.Y.)
Katie Hyland, Brown (Sr., M, Riegelsville, Pa.)
Laurel McGarvie, Penn (Sr., M, Medford, N.J.)
Mattie Prodanovic, Cornell (Sr., B, River Forest, Ill.)
Steph Sanders, Cornell (Sr. B, Endwell, N.Y.)
Cynthia Tassopoulos, Harvard (So., GK, Dallas, Texas)

Honorable Mention All-Ivy
Hannah Balleza, Cornell (Fr., F, Saverna Park, Md.)
Amy Donovan, Princeton (So., B, Unionville, Pa.)
Alexander Douwes, Princeton (Sr., B, Bussum, Netherlands)
Laura Iacovetti, Brown (Jr., B, Blue Bell, Pa.)
Erin Jennings, Princeton (Jr., M, Macungie, Pa.)
Lauren Kessler, Brown (Jr., GK, Burtonsville, Md.)
Georgia McGillivray, Harvard (Jr., B, Victoria, B.C.)
Kelly McHenry, Dartmouth (Sr., F, Williamsburg, Va.)
Alyssa Pyros, Princeton (Jr., M/B, Shavertown, Pa.)
Leslie Springmeyer, Brown (Jr., F, New Vernon, N.J.)
Kate Thompson, Cornell (Sr., M, Vancouver, B.C.)

Player of the Year
*Kathleen Sharkey, Princeton (Jr., F, Moosic, Pa.)

Co-Rookies of the Year
Hannah Balleza, Cornell (Fr., F, Saverna Park, Md.)
Georgia Holland, Yale (Fr., M/B, Stony Brook, N.Y.)

* - unanimous selection

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