September 13, 2024 — Friday Statwatch for games played through September 11

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Statwatch, the part of this site’s coverage which aims to bring together the past and the present through a statistical lens.

We’ve noticed one interesting trend the last couple of years when it comes to the pace of play and the building of statistical portfolios. In a reaction to The Score-O Decade, which saw ridiculous scoring thanks to artificial turf and space-age sticks, coaches have started putting a lot of their better athletes in the backfield as well as in goalkeeper pads. Often, scholastic field hockey goalies are now the best athletes on the team, and we’ve seen well-trained keepers frustrate high-performance sides already this season.

Our statistical occurrence of the week occurred last evening, which is usually after our Wednesday cutoff for stat-gathering. But on this occasion, we’ll celebrate a rare accomplishment. Last evening, in the final four minutes of a game between Delmar (Del.) and Berlin Stephen Decatur (Md.), senior Jordyn Hollamon recorded her second assist of the season, feeding Somer Layton for the tally.

The assist gives Hollamon her 100th of her career, which, with her 164 goals through the close of play yesterday, puts her in some unique company. As far as we know, only 14 people have scored as many as 100 goals and 100 assists in a field hockey career. And if you look at this list below, you’ll note that three of our list — Meredith Sholder, Leah Crouse, and Emma Deberdine — represented the United States at the Paris Olympics.

* six-year varsity career
** five-year varsity career

Below this paragraph is a compilation of available statistics through last Wednesday from available sources such as Berks Game Day, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Jersey Advance Media, the governing bodies of Kentucky and Michigan, and, of course, the easy-to-use MaxPreps.com platform. I encourage you to get your fellow teams to enter their information there as well as whichever is your local news site, so that we can aim for as complete a statistical picture of the country as possible.

MOST GOALS, SEASON
26 Bella Boyle, Hazleton (Pa.) Area
18 Ceci Flowers, Louisville Kentucky Country Day (Ky.)
17 Sadie Nawarynski, Emmaus (Pa.)
16 Andie Weidman, Marvin Ridge (N.C.)
15 Meg Tebben, Charlotte (N.C.) Catholic
15 Paige Perkhon, Falls Church George C. Marshall (Va.)
14 Addie Chandler, Denver Colorado Academy (Colo.)
13 Laila Zdancewicz, Plymouth Wyoming Valley West (Pa.)
13 Brooke Burgin, Asheville (N.C.)
13 Trudy Redmond, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
13 Ellen Beam, Louisville Kentucky Country Day (Ky.)
13 Olivia Vonderheide, Louisville Highlands Latin (Ky.)

13 Jordan Byers, Elliottsburg West Perry (Pa.)

MOST ASSISTS, SEASON
13 Autumn Kernechel, Emmaus (Pa.)
13 Hannah Ponciroli, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
13 Stella Shuman, Louisville DuPont Manual (Ky.)
12 Olivia Pifer, Louisville Mercy (Ky.)
12 Ava Parson, Louisville Mercy (Ky.)
11 Emmy Horner, Emmaus (Pa.)
10 Scarlett Gilner, Chapel Hill (N.C.)
10 Libby Castle, Marvin Ridge (N.C.)
9 Gabriella Bredbenner, Hazleton (Pa.) Area
9 Sloan Fenton, Shaker Heights (Ohio)
8 Sani Rauscher, Saratoga Prospect (Calif.)
8 Madison Lenig, Emmaus (Pa.)

CAREER GOALS
160 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
150 Molly Driscoll, Watertown (Mass.)
131 Krista Lilienthal, Pompton Lakes (N.J.)

CAREER ASSISTS
101 Sammie Goin, Ashburn Independence (Va.)
99 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)

CONSECUTIVE WINS
77 Watertown (Mass.)
73 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)

CONSECUTIVE UNBEATEN
77 Watertown (Mass.)
73 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)

ACTIVE COACHING VICTORIES
1074 Susan Butz-Stavin, Emmaus (Pa.)
758 Eileen Donahue, Watertown (Mass.)
726 Sharon Sarsen, Shrub Oak Lakeland (N.Y.)

So, here is where you, gentle reader, come into the picture. Do you see something amiss? Send an email to us at TopOfTheCircle.com. Include some backup (a website link will do), and we can make an edit.

We’ll see you next week for not only the NHSI, but for another round of Statwatch.