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ACC Announces 2008 All-Conference Field Hockey Team
Nov. 5, 2008
GREENSBORO, N.C. – After spending virtually the entire season occupying at the top of the nation’s rankings, Maryland and Wake Forest and have placed four student-athletes each on the 2008 All-ACC field hockey team, announced today by the ACC. Joining the Terps and Demon Deacons on the team are three players from each Duke and North Carolina, two from Virginia and one from Boston College. Ten members of the seventeen member team are repeat honorees from 2007. Maryland’s Katie O’Donnell, a sophomore from Blue Bell, Pa., was voted the league’s Offensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. She led her team to a 16-2 mark this season with a 4-1 record in the conference to take the No. 1 seed in this year’s ACC Field Hockey Championship. With 18 goals and 17 assists this season, O’Donnell is ranked first in the league with 3.31 points per match. Maryland’s Susie Rowe, a senior from London, England, was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year as she led the league in goals scored with 22. She averaged 1.22 goals per match and posted 58 total points to lead the league in the respective categories. Rowe anchored the Maryland defense which allowed only 16 goals all season. Winning the ACC Coach of the Year award this year is Wake Forest head coach Jennifer Averill. In her 17th season as the leader at Wake Forest, Averill kept the Demon Deacons ranked in the top-3 all season. She led Wake to a 17-2 finish including a 9-2 mark against teams ranked in the top-15. This year’s award is Averill’s sixth in her career and her fifth in the last seven years. 2008 All-ACC Field Hockey Team Offensive Player of the Year Defensive Player of the Year Coach of the Year
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