University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Players Selected For Top Squads
January 21, 2005 | Field Hockey
Jan. 21, 2005
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Nine current or former North Carolina field hockey players have been named to USA Field Hockey national teams following trials last week in Virginia Beach, Va.
Selected for the U.S. National Team were Kelsey Keeran, Carrie Lingo, Amy Tran and Abbey Woolley. Lingo, Tran and Woolley were members of the U.S. team in 2004, while Keeran, a senior on the 2004 UNC squad, is a new addition.
A forward from Sunbury, Ohio, Keeran earned All-America honors as a senior for the second year in a row and was named Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament MVP as the Tar Heels claimed the conference crown and finished the season 21-2. Lingo and Woolley last played for the Tar Heels in 2001, Tran in 2002.
Five current UNC players - Laree Beans, Rachel Dawson, Ashley Judge, Heather Kendell and Brooke Miller - were selected for the USA Field Hockey Under-21 team. Beans, Dawson, Judge and Miller are among 21 named to the 29-player roster who have previous junior national team experience.
Beans, a rising junior from Bethlehem, Pa., played in all 23 games for UNC last season, starting six and scoring three goals. Dawson, a rising junior from Berlin, N.J., earned first-team All-America honors as a sophomore, when she was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Judge, a rising junior from Wilmington, Del., played in 20 games last season and started nine. Kendell, a rising sophomore from Chapel Hill, played in 22 games and started 19. Miller, a rising junior from Hummelstown, Pa., ranked second on the team with 11 assists and added four goals
The Under-21 team will compete in the Junior Pan American Championships March 16-27 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The top three finishers there will qualify for the Junior World Cup, to be held in September in Santiago, Chile.
