A lot of attention and expectations has been heaped upon Jordyn Hollamon the last few years.
Coming into the 2024 scholastic field hockey season, the Maryland commit was trying to help Delmar (Del.) win its ninth straight state field hockey championship. Too, she had scored a Delaware state record 73 goals a year ago, just two short of the national lead. But she didn’t care about that figure as much as she cared about Delmar winning an eighth consecutive state final.
This year, Hollamon was your national scoring champion with 61 goals. In addition she became became the 10th known scholastic field hockey player ever to score more than 200 goals in a career. Again, she didn’t care about those statistics as much as vaulting Delmar to a ninth consecutive state championship.
“We worked really hard since the preseason, because we had so many new players,” she says. “We just took it game by game, trying to win all of them, especially in the playoffs.”
That playoff run was a thrill-a-minute ride, which saw the Wildcats escape with an overtime win over Georgetown Sussex Academy (Del.) in the state semifinal round.
“None of our playoff games were easy,” she says. “We just had to work really hard, and we wound up getting to the state championship and winning.”
Fittingly, it was Hollamon’s last career goal involvement that gave Delmar the 4-3 win over Wilmington (Del.) Friends in the DIAA Division 2 final to complete the team’s “Grind for 9.” The involvement was a pass to teammate Laela Brown in the final minutes, which Brown converted for the winning score.
“I look up and try to find spaces where others can run onto,” Hollamon said. “That’s because when I’m dribbling, I’m going to have a lot of people on me.”
Jordyn Hollamon is the last of four field hockey-playing cousins who have helped create a decade of dominance in Delmar, and will join her sister Josie and her cousin Maci Bradford at the University of Maryland next fall.
Jordyn Hollamon joins this talented list of field hockey players who have led the country in scoring the last four decades. Please let us know if there are any additions or corrections that need to be made to the list below. This especially goes for 1988, the identity of which is unknown. If you have any ideas, let us know. It’s been driving us batty.
2024: Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.) 61
2023: Paige Cornelius, New Albany (Ohio), 75
2022: Olivia Fraticelli, Toms River (N.J.) North, 89
2021: Ryleigh Heck, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 125
2020-21: Hope Rose, Harrisburg Central Dauphin (Pa.) 90
2019: Ryleigh Heck, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 78
2018: Mackenzie Allessie, Mount Joy Donegal (Pa.) 124
2017: Mackenzie Allessie, Mount Joy Donegal (Pa.) 91
2016: Megan Rodgers, San Diego Serra (Calif.) 81
2015: Nikki Santore, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 69
2014: Austyn Cuneo, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 95
2013: Austyn Cuneo, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 96
2012: Austyn Cuneo, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 68
2011: Austyn Cuneo, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 69
2010: Danielle Allan, Pompton Lakes (N.J.) 56
2009: Kelsey Mitchell, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) 69
2008: Lucas Long, Allentown William Allen (Pa.) 43
2007: Lauren Gonsalves, Harwich (Mass.) 56
2006: Kaitlyn Hiltz, Virginia Beach Frank W. Cox (Va.) 50
2005: Kelly Fitzpatrick, Palmyra (Pa.) 66
2004: Amie Survilla, Mountain Top Crestwood (Pa.) 64
2003: Anne Marie Janus, Kingston Wyoming Seminary (Pa.) 44
2002: Shauna Banta, Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) and Amanda Arnold, West Long Branch Shore Regional (N.J.) 49
2001: Tiffany Marsh, Marathon (N.Y.) 57
2000: Rebecca Hooven, Plumsteadville Plumstead Christian (Pa.) 54
1999: Rebecca Hooven, Plumsteadville Plumstead Christian (Pa.) 48
1998: Kelli Hill, Manasquan (N.J.) 43
1997: Tiffany Serbanica, Madison (N.J.) Borough 43
1996: Carla Tagliente, Marathon (N.Y.) 51
1995: Kim Miller, Virginia Beach Frank W. Cox (Va.) 63
1994: Michelle Vizzuso, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.) 69
1993: Melissa Pasnaci, Miller Place (N.Y.) 60
1992: Diane DeMiro, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.) 56
1991: Denise Nasca, Centereach (N.Y.) 56
1990: Shelley Parsons, Waterfall Forbes Road (Pa.) 50
1989: Christine McGinley, Medford Lakes Shawnee (N.J.) 40
1988: Unknown
1987: Kris Fillat, San Diego Serra (Calif.) 53
1986: Dana Fuchs, Centereach (N.Y.) 57
1985: Hope Sanborn, Walpole (Mass.) and Sharon Landau, Mamaroneck Rye Neck (N.Y.) 53
1984: Michelle Vowell, Garden Grove Santiago (N.Y.) 56
1983: Tracey Fuchs, Centereach (N.Y.) 82
1982: Mare Chung, San Diego Serra (Calif.) 48