2018 Women's Lacrosse Roster
Katie Hoeg
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Mattituck, N.Y.
- High School:
- Mattituck
CAREER – Four-time All-America ... Three-time All-ACC pick ... Finished her career second in NCAA history and first in ACC history in with 233 career assists ... She posted 59 career multi-assist games ... Ended her career fourth in ACC history and first in Carolina history in career points with 370 ... Led the nation in 2021 with 71 assists and 3.38 assists per game ... Her 71 assists in 2021 were the second-highest single-season total in school history (behind her own 73 in 2019) ... Finished fifth in the nation in scoring with 109 points in 2021.
SENIOR (2020) – Named co-National Player of the Year by Inside Lacrosse with teammate Jamie Ortega ... Hoeg and Ortega joined Kara Cannizzaro (2013) as the only national players of the year in UNC history ... An Inside Lacrosse first-team All-America ... Tied for first in the nation in points (52) and points per game (7.43), tallying eight points in five of the team's seven games ... Ranked second nationally in assists (30) and assists per game (4.29), dishing out six on three occasions ... One of five Tar Heels on the 56-player final watch list for the 2020 Tewaaraton Award ... Also named a first-team Academic All-America, earning a spot on the Academic All-America Division I Women's At-Large first team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America ... Became the second UNC women's lacrosse player to earn Academic All-America honors, joining third-team pick Porter Wilkinson (2002) ... Hoeg became the 10th Tar Heel to make the women's at-large first team and the first since women's tennis star Hayley Carter, a two-time pick in 2016 and 2017 ... Won the Jim Tatum Memorial Award, an honor that goes each year to one outstanding UNC student-athlete "who has performed with distinction in his or her sport and who has contributed to the university community through constructive participation in co-curricular activities ... Broke Corey Donohoe's UNC career points record of 256 with four goals and four assists on March 9 at Northwestern, boosting her career point total to 261 when the coronavirus pandemic ended the season.
JUNIOR (2019) – Named second-team All-America by ILWomen and the IWLCA ... Second-team All-ACC ... First-team All-South (IWLCA) ... Named to the All-ACC Tournament Team after recording four goals and 12 assists in three wins ...Dished out a school-record 73 assists in 2019, breaking her own school record of 50 (set in 2018) ... Is Carolina’s career assist leader with 132 (breaking the previous record of 121 set by Ela Hazar) ... Had seven multigoal games and 18 multiassist outings as a junior ... Had four or more assists in 10 of the final 13 games and 12 games overall in 2019 ... Ranked second in the nation with 73 assists, third nationally with 3.48 assists per game , 11th in the country with 104 points and 15th with 4.95 points per game ... Posted 104 points on the season, becoming the second Tar Heel to reach the 100-point plateau (behind Jamie Ortega, who did so earlier in 2019) ... UNC team co-captain in 2019 ... Started every UNC game on the attack unit ... Dished out a career-high six assists in the season-opening win over defending NCAA champion James Madison ... Also had six assists in the 11-5 win over No. 3 Syracuse and a goal and six assists in the ACC Tournament win over Virginia Tech ... Had four assists vs. Virginia in the NCAA quarterfinals and vs. Boston College in the semifinals ... Tallied a goal and 11 assists in three NCAA Tournament games ... UNC’s Elite 90 nominee at the 2019 NCAA Championship (as the Tar Heel with the top grade point average) ... Named to the All-ACC Academic Team.
SOPHOMORE (2018) – First-team All-America (IWLCA) in her first season as a starter ... Also earned second-team All-America honors from ILWomen ... First-team All-ACC … First-team All-South (IWLCA) ... Led UNC with a career-high and school-record 89 points and a UNC single-season record 50 assists … Led the ACC in assists and assists per game (2.38) ... Third in the ACC in points per game (4.24) … All-ACC Tournament Team with a tournament-record 10 assists in three ACC Tourney games ... Was UNC’s Elite 90 representative at the NCAA Championship banquet in Stony Brook, N.Y. (earned by posting the highest cumulative grade point average on the UNC team).
FRESHMAN (2017) – Carolina’s top-scoring freshman ... Saw action in 19 of 20 games (all but Maryland) ... Scored seven goals and dished out nine assists ... Sixth on the team in assists ... The Tar Heels’ top scorer off the bench ... Scored twice against both Duke (ACC Tournament) and Virginia (NCAA Tournament) ... Also scored against Duke (regular season), Canisius and High Point ... Had a season-high three ground balls against Canisius and Duke (regular season).
HIGH SCHOOL – Earned the Most Valuable Player award at the 2016 Under Armour All-America Game after recording three goals and two assists in the contest ... Also was a member of the All-ILWomen High School Team while at Mattituck High School in Mattituck, N.Y. ... ILWomen listed Hoeg as the No. 6 incoming freshman in the nation for 2017 ... Tallied 56 goals and 58 assists as a senior and had more than 500 career points in her six varsity seasons ... A US Lacrosse All-America, All-Long Island, a two-time national schoolgirls champion and a four-time team captain ... The valedictorian of her graduating class at Mattituck ... A member of the National Honor Society who earned high honor roll accolades 12 times ... Won a number of other academic awards as well ... Also played five years of basketball as a point guard.
PERSONAL – Katherine Elizabeth Hoeg is the daughter of James and Karen Hoeg ... Birthday is January 14 ... Born in Port Jefferson, N.Y. ... Majoring in biology with minors in chemistry and English ... Enrolled in a research opportunity with Dr. Ilona Jaspers, the director of UNC's toxicology curriculum investigating how vaping impacts cardiovascular systems ... Planned to enroll in dental school at UNC in the Fall of 2021.
