Forest, Va. – Roanoke Field Hockey placed six players on the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) All-Conference team the league announced Tuesday afternoon.
Emma Clark and Kaylin Stenson earned first-team honors, Stacey Staley and Emilee Wooten were named second-team and Lauren Heffron and Rebecca Schmidt earned third-team nods.
Clark, a sophomore from Hamburg, Pa., started all 19 games in the cage for the Maroons, recording five solo shutouts on the year which is first in the conference. She made 81 saves which is fifth best in the ODAC for a .764 save percentage which ranks fourth. This marks the first all-conference honor for Clark.
Clark along with Stenson and Staley headed the Maroon defense that recorded seven shutouts on the season, including a pair of back-to-back shutouts on Sept. 6 against Wilson (5-0) and Sept. 9 against McDaniel (2-0) along with a 1-0 win against Bridgewater on Sept. 19 and a 5-0 victory vs. Transylvania on Sept. 23.
Stenson earns her third straight all-conference honor and her first first-team nod. The junior from Coopersburg, Pa. recorded a goal and an assist in the 9-0 win at Sweet Briar. Stenson was also named to the ODAC All-Tournament team.
Second-Team selection Staley earns her first all-conference award as a junior. In 19 games, she tallied two assists with one against Transylvania and one against Randolph-Macon in the ODAC semifinals.
Freshman Emilee Wooten, a Laytonsville, Md. native, scored 16 goals on the season which ranks fourth in the ODAC. She recorded five multi-goal games during her rookie campaign, highlighted by hat-tricks in the season-opener vs Ferrum and the regular-season finale against Randolph-Macon. Wooten tallied six assists on the season with two coming in the win against Transylvania. She was also named to the ODAC All-Tournament team.
Midfielder and Glen Allen, Va. native Heffron, played in 17 games for Roanoke, earning 16 starts. She scored in seven different contests, including a hat-trick against Randolph-Macon in the conference quarterfinals. She also tallied two assists for a total of 22 points on the season.
Senior Rebecca Schmidt closes out her senior season having played in 17 games for the Maroons. The White Hall Md. native earns her second third-team all-conference honor after recording six goals and three assists on the season with two goals against Ferrum in the season-opener.
Roanoke caps the year with its most wins since the 2002 season and its 14 victories ties for the second most in school history. The Maroons made their first appearance in the ODAC Semifinals since 2004 following a 7-0 win over Randolph-Macon in the quarterfinals.
