The Johns Hopkins Field Hockey team may be done with its season, but its players are still receiving honors for their achievements during the year.
Four members of the field hockey team received All-Centennial Conference Honors for their exceptional play throughout the season. Junior forward Kelly Hewitt, junior forward Jenny Farrelly, junior defender Ashlee Duncan and freshman midfielder Meighan Roose all received recognition. Hewitt and Roose were also named to the All-South Region First Team.
Hewitt, one of the co-captains, was an All-Conference first team selection. She also became one of only 11 elite JHU players ever to earn All-Region recognition with her selection to the All-South team by the STX/NFHCA.
Hewitt started all 21 of the Blue Jays' games this season and provided the consistency on offense that the Jays needed for success.
She led the team in assists with seven and scored five goals for a total of 17 offensive points, second only to Jenny Farrelly.
Farrelly, another all-conference selection, had a breakthrough season on offense, recording 15 goals and five assists for a total of 35 points this season.
She challenged the JHU record books, tying for the third-best single-season goal record and reaching fourth place on Hopkins' all-time record for total points in a season.
She holds a new Hopkins record with three hat tricks in a single season and was also named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll earlier this season.
Another Blue Jay who was recognized by the Centennial Conference last Thursday was Ashlee Duncan.
Duncan was one of the keys to the Blue Jays' dominant defense this season, which limited opponents to only 1.63 goals per game and recorded four shutouts.
She managed to record several key defensive saves, including one in the first half of the conference tournament final. She also contributed on offense, scoring four goals for a total of eight points this season.
The final player who was honored this past week was Meighan Roose.
She managed to become just the second freshman in the history of the Centennial Conference to be named to the first team and the first Hopkins freshman ever to be chosen for the All-South Region First Team.
Roose scored four crucial goals throughout the season and also assisted on six other goals, for a sum of 14 points, third highest on the team.
She made an impact for the Lady Jays from the very beginning, scoring a goal in just her second career game.
However, the field hockey team's success this year was not the result of the contributions of individual players, but rather a collective effort.
As senior goalkeeper and co-captain Missi Schafhauser stated, "Individually, a lot of people had great seasons, but, when it came down to it, we won together as a team and lost together as a team."
Hewitt added, "We enjoyed playing together and got along well. Team chemistry was one of our strong points this season."
Although the field hockey team suffered a disappointing defeat in the Centennial Conference finals to end the season, the players are still proud of how far they went this year and of their team's resilience.
The field hockey team also had a remarkable knack for coming through in pressure situations, as was demonstrated in their comeback victory in the Conference Tournament Semi-finals.
"Even when other teams scored on us right away, we didn't give up," remarked Schafhauser. "We even came back and won some of those games."
The team has high hopes for next season when they return a total of eight juniors as well as nine of the 11 starters.
As for the departing seniors, the Blue Jays will miss them greatly and their contributions will not be forgotten.
"Hopefully," said Hewitt, "we can all remember the examples they set and build on them to make our team even better next season.
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