Rutgers Field Hockey Announces Freshman Class of 2006
May 09 | Field Hockey
PISCATAWAY, NJ - The Rutgers University field hockey team has brought in nine student-athletes as members of the class of 2010, head coach Liz Tchou announced. The class includes four Pennsylvania standouts, three New Jersey products and two New York natives.
The Scarlet Knights newcomers in 2006 will include Jill Beck (Spring City, PA), Chelsey Schwab (Pottstown, PA), Melissa Bowman (Ronks, PA), Jessika Hoh (Allentown, PA) from Pennsylvania. They have also brought on Lauren DeCerbo (Tabernacle, NJ), Katie Feeley (Collingswood, NJ) and Leslie Kelly (Glassboro, NJ), who will all compete for their home state starting in the fall of 2006. Sarah Dunn (Eaton, NY) and Kristen Johnson (Sachem, NY) represent the two Rutgers recruits from the state of New York.
Brittney Bybel (Millville, NJ), a forward/midfielder out of Millville Senior High School, has plans to attend Rutgers University in the fall.
Beck and Schwab come to RU by way of Owen J. Roberts High School in Pennsylvania where both were captains during their senior seasons.
As a senior, Beck was named to the all-area first team and All-Pac-10 first team. She was her team's leading scorer for the 2003 campaign and was named to the All Pac-10 Second Team as a junior.
Schwab was Owen J. Roberts' Most Valuable Defender for her sophomore, junior and senior seasons and tallied five goals, 11 assists and three defensive saves in 2005. She was a first team all-area selection and an All-Pac-10 first-team member.
Bowman, of Pequea Valley High School, will join Schwab and Beck 'On the Banks.' Bowman tallied 24 goals and 21 assists during her high school career and was named to the Pennsylvania All-State Second and First Teams in 2004 and 2005, respectively. She was Pequea Valley's Most Valuable Player in 2005 and Most Valuable Defender in 2004.
Hoh scored 61 goals and tallied 21 assists during her time at Parkland High School, during which she spent three years as a varsity starter. Hoh was the Lehigh Valley Conference's and District XI's leading scorer for the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
As a four-year starter and captain at Glassboro High School, Kelly was named her team's defensive MVP as a senior and garnered First-Team all-State honors from the Associated Press, NJFieldHockey.com and the Star-Ledger in 2005. Kelly led her team to an 18-2-4 record and a Tri-County Classic divisional title in 2005, while allowing just 13 goals all season. After breaking Glassboro High School's record for most shutouts in a single season with 14 in 2004, she duplicated her efforts in 2005 and matched her own record.
DeCerbo joins Kelly as RU's second incoming goalie. She was the first field hockey captain in Seneca High School's history, as she earned first-team all-conference and all-Group III honors as a goalie in 2005. She was selected as a member of the USFHA Futures Elite Program in 2006 and has been a member of the program since 2004.
Feeley was a four-year letterwinner in field hockey, lacrosse and basketball at Collingswood High School and brings a winning mentality from her high school career. She was a two-time first-team all-state selection and led her team to a 16-2-2 record in 2005 and Colonial Conference championships in 2003 and 2004.
Johnson, out of Sachem North High School, captained her team, was its Most Valuable Player, and was an honorable-mention all-county selection in 2005. She comes to RU after competing in the National Futures Tournament in 2003 and 2005.
Dunn was a four-year standout at Morrisville-Eaton High School in Eaton, NY. She was named to the All-Mohawk Valley Team by the Utica Observer Dispatch in 2004 and was a conference all-star and Center-State first team member in the same season.
Bybel was a first team all-conference selection her senior season at Millville and she was also a member of the Press all-star team.
