HANOVER, N.H. — Senior
Bronwyn Bird of the Dartmouth field hockey team has been named to the NFHCA Division I Senior Team, as announced on Wednesday. It's a prestigious honor featuring just 38 senior student-athletes in all of Division I field hockey, representing 30 different Division I institutions. The honor pays tribute to their entire collegiate careers.
Bird was a second team All-Ivy honoree all three seasons that she played (her first year was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic). As a senior in 2023, she finished third on the Big Green in points with nine behind three goals and three assists. Bird ended up started all 49 games of her career, beginning 2023 with a goal in each of the first three games to extend her point streak to five dating back to the end of 2022. Bird later added an assist at Yale. A mainstay in the midfield, Bird also played a role on a defense that in Ivy League play, shut-out Brown, allowed just one goal vs. Columbia and just one goal in regulation at Yale.
Bird was one of only four honorees from the Ivy League, joining Caroline Ramey from Cornell, Avery Donahue from Harvard and Allison Kuzyk from Penn.Â
Bird finished her career with 30 points behind 10 goals and 10 assists. After nine points as a sophomore (four goals, one assist), she tallied 12 as a junior (three goals, six assist), earning NFHCA second team All-Northeast Region. Bird was also named the Big Green's Co-Offensive Player of the Year.
As a team, the Big Green made major strides in 2023, finishing 6-9, their most wins since 2018 and fewest losses since 2012. Dartmouth picked up big Ivy League wins over Brown and Columbia. Against the Bears, the Big Green picked up their first Ivy League shutout since 2012 and first shutout of the Bears since 2005. In the 3-1 win over Columbia, Dartmouth beat Columbia by multiple goals for the first time since 2015 and ended the season with two multi-goal Ivy League wins for the first time since 2014.
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