University of North Carolina Athletics
Six Tar Heels Named All-America
November 24, 2009 | Field Hockey
Nov. 24, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - One day after winning an NCAA championship, six North Carolina field hockey players have earned All-America honors, as announced Monday by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. Three Tar Heels - juniors Katelyn Falgowski and Jackie Kintzer and freshman Kelsey Kolojejchick - were named to the first team, giving UNC more players on the top squad than any other school. Additionally, seniors Illse Davids and Danielle Forword were named to the second team and senior Melanie Brill was named to the third.
The All-America honors are the first for Brill, Forword, Kintzer and Kolojejchick. Falgowski had been named to the All-America second team following her freshman and sophomore seasons. Davids joined her on that squad in 2008.
With the latest trio, 31 North Carolina players have earned first-team All-America honors on 43 occasions. Kolojejchick is the first UNC freshman to earn first-team honors and was the only rookie named to the first-team this season.
UNC led the way with three players on the first team, joined by two each from Connecticut, Duke, Maryland and Princeton and one apiece from Boston College, Michigan State, Syracuse, Virginia and Wake Forest. Ten of the 16 players on the first team come from ACC programs.
This year marks the sixth time in school history that UNC has placed three players on the first team in the same year. The other occasions were 1987, 1990, 1996, 1997 and 2000.
Each of the six honorees started all 22 games for UNC this season. Falgowski, a midfielder from Landenberg, Pa., led the team in assists with a career-high 26, the fifth-highest single-season total in school history. Kintzer, a goalkeeper from Robesonia, Pa., finished the year with a goals-against average of 0.80, giving up just 13 goals in 20 games. Kolojejchick, a midfielder from Larksville, Pa., and the ACC Rookie of the Year, ranked third on the team in goals with 15 and also in points with 38.
Forword, a forward from East London, South Africa, finished the year with 17 goals, including the gamewinner in the NCAA final. With 54 career goals, she ranks ninth on UNC's all-time list, and her 122 career points put her 10th on that list. Davids, a midfielder from Plumstead, South Africa, had eight goals this season, including one that tied the championship game score at 2-2.
rill, a back from Oley, Pa., tied for the team lead this season with 17 goals and also anchored the Tar Heel defense.
On Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C., No. 3 North Carolina beat top-ranked Maryland 3-2 to claim the program's sixth NCAA title.
