FIELD HOCKEY. Virginia Cavaliers 2018 MEDIA RELATIONS 2018 SCHEDULE 1-1, 0-0 ACC

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1 Virginia Cavaliers 2018 FIELD HOCKEY QUICK LOOK AT THE HOOS The Cavaliers are a young team with 10 newcomers on the roster, including nine freshmen The Cavaliers have four goalies on the roster, including a pair of veterans. Fifth-year senior Carrera Lucas started every game in goal last year for the Cavaliers, with a 1.75 goals-against average Sophomore goalie Lauren Hausheer made eight appearances last year, allowing just one goal with 19 saves in 175 minutes for a.950 save percentage The Cavalier offense returns eight of its top-10 goal scorers from last season. Senior Greta Ell is the top returner with 13 goals last season, followed by juniors Anzel Viljoen with six and Erin Shanahan with five goals. Shanahan was also second on the team in assists with eight The Cavaliers are the defending 2017 ACC regular-season champions TOP-RANKED OFFENSE The Cavaliers were one of the mostpotent offenses in the nation during the 2017 season The Cavaliers finished the year ranked first in goals per game (4.40) and second in points (12.15) and penalty corners per game (9.40) while ranking third in scoring margin (+2.75) and assists per game (3.35) UVA led the nation in goals, points, and penalty corners per game as well as scoring average and scoring margin through the first six weeks of the season (Oct. 3) UVA led the ACC all season in goals, points, and penalty corners per game as well as scoring average and scoring margin TOP-10 MATCH-UPS The Cavaliers played in seven top-10 showdowns last season, going 4-3, picking up victories over then-no. 1 Duke, No. 7 Syracuse, No. 7 Louisville and No 8. Boston College, but falling to then-no. 7 Penn State and twice to North Carolina (ranked No. 6 and No. 7) LAST WEEK The Cavaliers opened the 2018 season with an 8-1 victory at Drexel The Cavalier first years accounted for six of UVA s eight goals Peyton Tollaksen scored the first two goals of the season for the Cavaliers, giving her a game-winner in her first collegiate contest Grace Wallis also scored two goals in her collegiate debut Greer Gill scored a goal and also had an assist Amber Ezechiels scored a goal on her only shot of the season, starting her career with a shooting percentage Carrera Lucas had nine saves in Sunday s 1-0 loss at Penn State THIS WEEK The Cavaliers play their first home game of the year, hosting Longwood (1-0) on Sunday, Sept. 2 at 1 p.m. The game will be streamed online as an ACC Network Extra contest Former UVA assistant coach Annie Zinkavich is a volunteer assistant for the Lancers Longwood opened the season with a 2-1 victory over Bucknell. The Lancers hosted UMass Lowell on Thursday night and were leading, 4-2, when the game went into a weather delay in the 46th minute. The game was eventually cancelled after an extensive delay and will not count towards the season record nor will the statistics since it was not an official game. No makeup will be scheduled between the two programs. The Lancers posted an 11-6 record last season and a program-best 4-2 mark in the Mid-American Conference. All-MAC performers Clara Meschini (defense), Leonie Verstaete (forward) and Katie Wyman (goalie) are among the 14 returners from last year s squad. NEXT WEEK The Cavaliers finish the current homestand with a pair of games next weekend UVA plays its ACC opener next Friday, Sept. 7, taking on Syracuse at 4 p.m. The Cavaliers close out the homestand by hosting in-state rival Old Dominion on Sunday, Sept. 9 at 1 p.m SCHEDULE 1-1, 0-0 ACC Aug. 15 at American (scrimmage) 1 p.m. Aug. 18 JAMES MADISON (scrimmage) 1 p.m. Aug. 24 at Drexel W, 8-1 Aug. 26 at #6 Penn State L, 1-0 Sept. 2 LONGWOOD 1 p.m. Sept. 7 SYRACUSE* 4 p.m. Sept. 9 OLD DOMINION 1 p.m. Sept. 14 at North Carolina* 4 p.m. Sept. 16 at Liberty 1 p.m. Sept. 21 at Boston College* 6 p.m. Sept. 23 at Northeastern* 12 p.m. Sept. 29 LOUISVILLE* 1 p.m. Oct. 5 at Duke* 6 p.m. Oct. 7 MIAMI (OH) 1 p.m. Oct. 12 at Delaware 5 p.m. Oct. 19 WAKE FOREST* 5 p.m. Oct. 21 MARYLAND 2 p.m. Oct. 26 at William & Mary 6 p.m. Nov. 1-4 ACC Tournament at North Carolina Nov NCAA First/Second Rounds (TBD) Nov. 16 NCAA Semifinals at Louisville Nov. 18 NCAA Championship at Louisville MEDIA RELATIONS Field Hockey Contact.Melissa Dudek Cell...(434) mdudek@virginia.edu 2018 RULE CHANGES Overtime now consists of two 10-minute sudden-death overtime periods before going to a shoot-out. The previous rule was two 15-minute overtime periods RANKINGS The Cavaliers open the season ranked No. 7 in the Penn Monto/NFHCA Rankings The Cavaliers were ranked in the top- 10 all last season, rising as high as a No. 3 TEAM CAPTAINS Redshirt senior Carrera Lucas, senior Greta Ell and sophomore Rachel Robinson are this year s team captains

2 2018 VIRGINIA SEASON HIGHS Points 4... Grace Wallis at Drexel (Aug. 24)...Peyton Tollaksen at Drexel (Aug. 24) Goals 2... Grace Wallis at Drexel (Aug. 24)...Peyton Tollaksen at Drexel (Aug. 24) Assists 1... several Shots 5... Izzy McDonough at Drexel (Aug. 24) Saves 9... Carrera Lucas at PSU (Aug. 24) SISTER ACT Senior Izzy McDonough and freshman Annie McDonough are sisters playing for the Cavaliers. The two played on the same team for one year at Unionville High School. Annie s twin sister, Maddie, is playing field hockey at Michigan State Two other players on the current roster have sisters who are alumnae of the program: Catesby Willis (sister, Phoebe 12) and Rachel Robinson (sister, Katie 13) NATIONAL TEAMS The Cavaliers have two players on the US Women s National Development Squad, one on the US Women s National Indoor Team, one on the US U21 team, four players on the US U19 Junior National Team as well as a member of the Dutch U19 junior national squad and two on the US U19 Indoor team Senior Carrera Lucas is a member of the US Women s Development Squad. Lucas was a goalkeeper for the US Women s National Development Squad, competing in a four-game test series against Chile s Women s National Team and U19 Junior National Team in May in Santiago, Chile Junior Erin Shanahan is also a member of the US Women s Development Squad. Shanahan was a member of the USA Women s Indoor U19 National Team and earned an invitation to last year s U21 Junior National Camp. Freshman Greer Gill is a member of the US U-21 Junior National Team. Has been a member of the US U19 Junior National Team for the last two years, competing with the squad in Germany in 2017 and Ireland this year Sophomores Lauren Hausheer and Makayla Gallen have been offered a trial for the U21 team at the conclusion of the 2018 collegiate season Annie McDonough is a member of the US Women s National Indoor Team and competed at the 2018 Women s National World Cup in Berlin, Germany in February. The veteran of international competition has also been a member of the USA U17 and U19 indoor junior national teams and is a current member of the US U19 squad after playing on the U17 team in 2016 Freshmen Peyton Tollaksen and Grace Wallis are on the US U19 roster alongside Greer Gill and Annie McDonough Freshman Amber Ezechiels is a member of the Dutch U19 Junior National Team Freshman Lizzy Shim and Taylor Henriksen are members of the US U19 Indoor Team VIRGINIA COACHING STAFF Virginia head coach Michele Madison is in her 13th season at Virginia and her 30th overall as a head coach Named the 2017 ACC Coach of the Year, her first time winning the honor. She is the second UVA Coach to earn the award, joining Missy Sanders (1997) Madison is one of only two active Division I head coaches to be a part of two United States Olympic staffs, having worked as a manager with the 1988 Olympic Team in Seoul and served as the head goalkeeper coach with the 1996 squad in Atlanta. Madison is a member of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame Assistant coach Ole Keusgen is in his third season at Virginia. Keusgen is also be one of the coaches leading U.S.A. Field Hockey s U19 Women s National Team and Junior High Performance program in 2017 Keusgen has been playing field hockey since the age of six, including playing professionally in Germany with one of the most successful field hockey clubs in European history, Uhlenhorst Mülheim, winning the German Indoor championship in 2015 and the Euro Indoor Club Cup in Assistant coach Rachel Dawson Dawson was a three-time Olympian, competing in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012 and helped lead the Americans to a fifth-place showing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Dawson has 298 international caps Dawson played at North Carolina and earned the 2007 Honda Award as the National Player of the Year for field hockey and was selected as one of the five finalists for the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation s top collegiate female athlete 2 NFHCA COACHES POLL 1 UConn North Carolina Duke Maryland Michigan Penn State VIRGINIA Louisville Delaware Princeton Syracuse Northwestern Boston College Wake Forest Harvard 395 Stanford James Madison Saint Joseph s Boston University Iowa Albany William & Mary Liberty Ohio State Maine 116 Dawson was the 2007 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and the 2007 ACC Tournament MVP TARA VITTESE With the graduation of Tara Vittese in May, UVA will be playing without a Vittese in the starting lineup for the first time since 2007 Tara Vittese was the first-ever player to be a three-time NFHCA National Player of the Year. She was a two-time ACC Offensive Player of the Year and a four-time First Team All-American. She was the Virginia athletic department s female athlete of the year last year Tara joined her sister, Michelle, in the starting lineup for the US Women s National Team in all three games the squad played in the 2018 World Cup. Sister, Carissa, is also a member of the USWNT but was not on the roster for the World Cup Michelle played for the Cavaliers from and in Carissa was with the team from Tara played from

3 2017 Virginia Field Hockey Virginia Combined Team Statistics (as of Jul 05, 2018) All games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Date Opponent Score Att. Aug 25 FAIRFIELD W Aug 27 #7 PENN STATE L Sep 01 COLUMBIA W Sep 03 MONMOUTH W * Sep 08 #1 DUKE W Sep 10 vs Michigan State W Sep 15 #18 WILLIAM & MARY W Sep 17 RICHMOND W * Sep 22 #8 BOSTON COLLEGE W Sep 25 PACIFIC W * Sep 29 at #13 Wake Forest W * Oct 06 #6 NORTH CAROLINA L Oct 08 DREXEL W * Oct 14 at #4 Syracuse W Oct 17 #12 MARYLAND L * Oct 21 at #7 Louisville W Oct 22 at MIAMI W Oct 29 at Old Dominion W Nov 03 vs #5 North Carolina L Nov 11 #11 PRINCETON Lo TEAM STATISTICS VA OPP SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored per game Shot pct Shots on goal-attempts SOG pct Shots/Game PENALTY CORNERS PENALTY STROKES PENALTIES Green cards Yellow cards 5 10 Red cards 0 0 ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date 13/449 5/274 Neutral Site #/Avg 2/70 ## Player gp g a pts sh sh% sog sog% gw ps-att dsv 8 Tara Vittese Pien Dicke Greta Ell Erin Shanahan Anzel Viljoen Nadine de Koning Makayla Gallen Izzy McDonough Colleen Norair Rachel Robinson Dominique vanslooten Nikki Freeman Brooke Castleberry Catesby Willis Becca Zamojcin Haley Hopkins Camille Kane Hannah Cregg Lauren Hausheer Carrera Lucas Carolyn Topps Total Opponents ## Goalie GP Min. GA GAAvg Saves Pct W-L-T Sho 25 Lauren Hausheer 8 174: /3 24 Carrera Lucas : /3 Total : Opponents : Goals by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Virginia Opponents Shots by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Virginia Opponents Saves by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Virginia Opponents Corners by Period 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Virginia Opponents

4 2018 Virginia Field Hockey Virginia Combined Team Statistics (as of Aug 29, 2018) All games RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE Date Opponent Score Att. Aug 24 at Drexel W Aug 26 at Penn State L TEAM STATISTICS VA OPP SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored per game Shot pct Shots on goal-attempts SOG pct Shots/Game PENALTY CORNERS 9 8 Goals off corners 2 1 PENALTY STROKES PENALTIES Green cards 4 0 Yellow cards 0 0 Red cards 0 0 ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date 0/0 2/442 Neutral Site #/Avg 0/0 ## Player gp g a pts sh sh% sog sog% gw ps-att dsv 21 Peyton Tollaksen Grace Wallis Makayla Gallen Greer Gill Izzy McDonough Amber Ezechiels Anzel Viljoen Erin Shanahan Greta Ell Jacquelyn Wilkins Catesby Willis Carrera Lucas Annie McDonough Colleen Norair Nikki Freeman Total Opponents ## Goalie GP Min. GA GAAvg Saves Pct W-L-T Sho 24 Carrera Lucas 2 136: /0 Total 2 140: Opponents 2 140: Goals by Period 1st 2nd Total Virginia Opponents Shots by Period 1st 2nd Total Virginia Opponents Saves by Period 1st 2nd Total Virginia Opponents Corners by Period 1st 2nd Total Virginia Opponents

5 2018 Virginia Field Hockey Virginia Game-by-Game Goals-Assists-Points (as of Aug 29, 2018) All games Opponent Date Score FREEMAN,NI SHANAHAN,E ELL,GRETA VILJOEN,AN GILL,GREER NORAIR,COL WILLIS,CAT WALLIS,GRA MCDONOUGH, MCDONOUGH, WILKINS,JA at DREXEL Aug W at PSU Aug L Opponent Date Score EZECHIELS, TOLLAKSEN, GALLEN,MAK LUCAS,CARR at DREXEL Aug W at PSU Aug L

6 2018 ROSTER & PRONUNCIATIONS No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown/Previous School(s) 1 Nikki Freeman M 5-2 Sr. Downington, Pa./Downington West 3 Erin Shanahan S 5-7 Jr. Pasadena, Md./Archbishop Spalding 4 Greta Ell M 5-5 Sr. Plains, Pa./ Holy Redeemer 5 Anzel Viljoen B 5-4 Jr. Matamata, New Zealand/Matamata College 6 Lizzy Shim M 5-4 Fr. Charlottesville, Va./The Covenant School 8 Greer Gill M 5-2 Fr. Virginia Beach, Va./Norfolk Academy 9 Rachel Robinson B 5-7 So. Mount Joy, Pa./Donegal 10 Colleen Norair B 5-4 Jr. Fredericksburg, Va./Fredericksburg Academy 11 Catesby Willis M 5-8 Jr. Fredericksburg, Va./James Monroe 12 Grace Wallis S 5-2 Fr. Blue Bell, Pa./Mount Saint Joseph Academy 13 Izzy McDonough S 5-4 Jr. Kennett Square, Pa./Unionville 14 Annie McDonough M 5-5 Fr. Kennett Square, Pa./Unionville 16 Jacquelyn Wilkins M 5-8 Fr. Louisville, Ky./Christian Academy of Louisville 18 Kelsey McCoy B 5-11 Fr. Virginia Beach, Va./Cape Henry Collegiate 19 Amber Ezechiels M 5-8 Fr. Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands/Haarlemmermeer Lyceum 21 Peyton Tollaksen M 5-8 Fr. Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge 22 Makayla Gallen M 5-5 So. Glen Mills, Pa./Cardinal O Hara 23 Carolyn Topps B 5-11 Jr. Fredericksburg, Va./Fredericksburg Academy 24 Carrera Lucas GK 5-10 R-Sr. Brooklandville, Md./St. Paul s School for Girls 25 Lauren Hausheer GK 5-7 So. West Windsor, N.J./West Windsor-Plainsboro 29 Brooke Castleberry S 5-5 Sr. Virginia Beach, Va./Cape Henry Collegiate 44 Meike Conijn GK 5-10 So. s-hertogenbosch, Netherlands/Rotterdam School of Management 88 Taylor Henriksen G 5-6 Fr. Falls Church, Va./St. Stephen s & St. Agnes Head Coach: Michele Madison, 13th season at Virginia, 30th overall (Rutgers, 1984) Assistant Coaches: Ole Keusgen, 4th season (Ruhr University Bochum, 2015) Rachel Dawson, 2nd season (North Carolina, 2007) Volunteer Assistant: Bex Thelen, 2nd season (Virginia, 2016) Pronunciation Guide Meike Conijn Makayla Gallen Izzy and Annie McDonough Anzel Viljoen Catesby Willis Ole Keusgen MAY-kuh CONE-nayn muh-kay-luh GAL-en mic-dun-uh AN-zell PHIL-yuhn KATES-bee EW-la KOYES-gen 6

7 2018 BROADCAST ROSTER 1 Nikki Freeman Sr. Midfield Downington, Pa. 3 Erin Shanahan Jr. Striker Pasadena, Md. 4 Greta Ell Sr. Striker Plains, Pa. 5 Anzel Viljoen Jr. Back Matamata, New Zealand 6 Lizzy Shim Charlottesville, Va. 8 Greer Gill Virginia Beach, Va. 9 Rachel Robinson So. Back Mount Joy, Pa. 10 Colleen Norair Jr. Back Fredericksburg, Va. 11 Catesby Willis Jr. Midfield Fredericksburg, Va. 12 Grace Wallis Fr. Striker Blue Bell, Pa. 13 Izzy McDonough Sr. Midfield Kennett Square, Pa. 14 Annie McDonough Kennett Square, Pa. 16 Jacquelyn Wilkins Louisville, Ky. 18 Kelsey McCoy Fr. Back Virginia Beach, Va. 19 Amber Ezechiels Niew-Vennep, Netherlands 21 Peyton Tollaksen Chesapeake, Va. 22 Makayla Gallen So. Striker Glen Mills, Pa. 23 Carolyn Topps Jr. Back Fredericksburg, Va. 24 Carrera Lucas R-Sr. Goalie Brooklandville, Md. 25 Lauren Hausheer So. Goalie West Windsor, N.J. 29 Brooke Castleberry Sr. Striker Virginia Beach, Va. 44 Meike Conijn So. Goalie s-hertogenbosch, Netherlands 88 Taylor Henriksen Fr. Goalie Falls Church, Va. 7