Gabriela Braceras

McLaine Leik

D/M

/ Field Hockey

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Gabriela Braceras senior day field hockey action versus Penn

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Gabriela Braceras field hockey action versus University of Massachusetts

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Gabriela Braceras field hockey action versus the Princeton Tigers

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Gabriela Braceras field hockey action versus vermont

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September 5, 2021; Underhill Field, Berkeley, California, USA; Field Hockey: Dartmouth Big Green vs California Golden Bears ; Photo credit: Catharyn Hayne / catharynhaynephotography;

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Gabriela Braceras field hockey action versus Central Michigan

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Class:
Senior
Position:
Forward
Hometown:
Concord, Mass.
High School:
Concord-Carlisle
Height:
5-7
Major:
Economics

2021 NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
2022 NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
2023 NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
2024 NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad

2024 (Senior): Suited up and started in all 16 games for the Big Green while scoring one goal and adding six assists for eight points….had eight shots on goal while six found the goal…scored her lone goal of the year against Providence….had back to back multipoint games against Providence and Sacred Heart… named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad…named to Academic All-Ivy Team

2023 (Junior): Saw action in 13 games, starting six … Posted one point (an assist) along with eight shots (five on goal) … Had a season-high four shots and three shots on goal vs. Stonehill (9/3) … Dished an assist off the bench against New Hampshire (10/1).

2022 (Sophomore): Played in all 17 games, starting 14 … Posted four points behind a goal and two assists … Named team's Most Improved Player ... Scored first-career goal, which proved to be the game-winner, in a 2-1 win over Merrimack (9/18) … Had assists at New Hampshire and vs. No. 15 Harvard (10/14) … Fired 13 shots on the season, six on goal.

2021 (First-Year): Appeared in 14 games off the bench.

Before Dartmouth: A multi-sport athlete at Concord-Carlisle, she was a five-year member of the varsity ice hockey team, while playing three seasons at the highest level of field hockey … Was named a team captain for ice hockey as a senior … Her field hockey teams won DCL Small League titles in 2018 and 2019, while also claiming a Large League crown in 2020 … Also won a Large League title in ice hockey as a senior … A six-time DCL All-Star between her field and ice hockey teams … Named ice hockey team MVP as a senior … A member of the Boston Herald’s All-Scholastic Field Hockey Team in her final year at Concord-Carlisle.

Personal: Daughter of Roberto ’91 and Jennifer Braceras … One of four children with two sisters and a brother … Her sister Carmen Braceras ’20 was a standout with the Big Green field hockey program from 2016-19 … No stranger to Dartmouth, she is the sixth member of her family to attend the College … A high honor roll student and member of the National Honor Society.