2016 CONFERENCE CUP TOURNAMENT

TEMPLE FIELD HOCKEY2016 GAME NOTESKaren Angell, Associate Director for Athletic Communications l Email: karena@temple.eduO: 215-204-3850 l C: 928-606-8017 l Twitter: @TempleFH l Website: www.OwlSports.com

GAME INFORMATION MATCHUPSDates ................................................................Aug. 26 & 28, 2016Time ..... 1 p.m. (8/26) vs. Syracuse, 3 p.m. (8/28) at Saint Joseph’sSite .............................Ellen Ryan Field (Saint Joseph’s University)Live Stats ...................................................Links on owlsports.comTwitter Updates ........................................................... @TempleFHSeries vs. Syracuse .............................................Temple leads, 4-3Streak ....................................................................................... W 2Series vs. Saint Joseph’s ................................ Temple leads, 25-10Streak ....................................................................................... W 6

TEMPLE Owls0-0, 0-0 BIG EAST

HEAD COACHMarybeth FreemanOverall Record: .............54-52 (7th Yr)at School: ........................8-13 (2nd Yr)2015 Team Record: ......................8-13

LAST TIME OUTL, 7-3 vs. #2 UConn11/8/2015 (BIG EAST Championship)

RETURNING LEADERSGoals: .......................Keer/Mueller (4)Assists: ..................... Hattie Kuhns (4)Points: ......................Keer/Mueller (9)

SCHEDULE/RESULTSAUGUSTFri., 26 vs. #2 Syracuse (at Saint Joseph’s) ........... 1:00 p.m.Sun., 28 at Saint Joseph’s ...................................... 3:00 p.m.

SEPTEMBERFri., 2 #18 PENN STATE ....................................... 6:00 p.m.Sun., 4 LA SALLE ................................................. 12:00 p.m.Fri., 9 DELAWARE ............................................... 4:00 p.m.Sun., 11 DREXEL ..................................................... 1:00 p.m.Fri., 16 *PROVIDENCE (BEDN) .............................. 6:00 p.m.Sun., 18 MONMOUTH ............................................. 1:00 p.m.Fri., 23 *at #3 UConn ........................................... 3:00 p.m.Sun., 25 vs. Sacred Heart (at Yale) ..........................3:30 p.m.Fri., 30 *GEORGETOWN ........................................ 6:00 p.m.

OCTOBERSun., 2 HOLY CROSS ........................................... 12:00 p.m.Fri., 7 *#20 OLD DOMINION ............................... 3:00 p.m.Sun., 9 at Penn ...................................................... 1:00 p.m.Sat., 15 *at Villanova ............................................ 12:00 p.m.Fri., 21 *QUINNIPIAC ............................................ 3:00 p.m.Fri., 28 *at #13 Liberty .......................................... 4:00 p.m.Sun., 30 LAFAYETTE (Senior Day) ........................... 2:00 p.m.

NOVEMBERFri., 4 **BIG EAST SEMIFINALS .................................... TBASun., 6 **BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP .............................. TBA

Home games in CAPS*BIG EAST contest**BIG EAST Tournament (at Temple)All times Eastern and subject to change

SYRACUSEOrange0-0, 0-0 ACC

HEAD COACHAnge BradleyOverall Record: ......296-97-2 (19th Yr)at School: ................... 161-36 (10th Yr)2015 Team Record: .......................21-1

LAST TIME OUTW, 4-2 vs. #1 North Carolina11/22/2015 (NCAA Championship)

RETURNING LEADERSGoals: ....................... Roos Weers (14)Assists: .......................Roos Weers (9)Points: ......................Roos Weers (37)

SAINT JOSEPH’SHawks0-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10

HEAD COACHLynn FarquharOverall Record: .............. 18-18 (3rd Yr)at School: ...................................Same2015 Team Record: ....................... 9-9

LAST TIME OUTL, 5-2 vs. UMass11/6/2015 (A-10 Semifinals)

RETURNING LEADERSGoals: ....................Anna Willocks (16)Assists: ...................... Monica Tice (9)Points: .................. Anna Willocks (36)

PRONUNCIATIONSForan ..................................................................................... for-ANGerzabek ....................................................................... grr-za-beckKucera ............................................................................. coo-sarahKuhns ......................................................................................koonzLilliock ................................................................................ lilly-awkMaiyah Brown ........................................................................ my-uhMeszaros .....................................................................mezz-air-ohsVittese ............................................................................ vah-TEESE

HEADLINES» Temple field hockey opens the 2016 season at the sixth annual Conference Cup Tournament, which returns to the City of Brotherly Love this year. First up for the Owls is a match-up against defending national champion and No. 2 Syracuse. » All four games of the tournament will be hosted by Saint Joseph’s, and the Owls will get the action started when they play the Orange at 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26.» Following Temple’s game on Friday, host Saint Joseph’s will play No. 6 Maryland at 4 p.m. On Sunday, Aug. 28, Maryland and Syracuse will play at noon before Temple faces off against SJU at 3 p.m. » The Owls and the Hawks will celebrate Phila Field Hockey Day on Sunday, and will sign autographs for young fans after the conclusion of the game.» Coming off an 8-13 season and a second-straight appearance in the BIG EAST Championship game, Temple will have a new look in 2016 after the loss of 10 seniors to graduation. » The Owls, who received six votes in the NFHCA Preseason Top 20 Poll, will be led by four seniors in Katie Foran, Paige Gross, Ali Meszaros and Michelle Walsh. » Five of the Owls’ 13 returning players started in at least half of the team’s games last season. » Sarah Keer, returning for her fourth season as a redshirt junior, and junior Rachael Mueller, scored four goals apiece to tie for fourth on the team in 2015. » Gross, juniors Maiyah Brown and Hattie Kuhns and redshirt sophomore Maris Stern all notched two goals apiece last year.» Redshirt sophomore Ashley Kucera returns in the midfield after making 11 starts in her first active season with the Owls. Meszaros, who started in 18 of 21 games and notched an assist, returns to help anchor the backfield.» The goalkeeping position will see sophomore Chloe Johnson and freshman Maddie Lilliock vying for the spot, with both being relative newcomers as Johnson played just 13 minutes in the cage last year. » Many other freshmen will be counted on to make an immediate impact, and the talent level is deep among the eight-mem-ber rookie class.» This year marks the third in a row in which Temple will face the defending national champion. The Owls play UConn as part of their BIG EAST Conference schedule, and the Huskies were national champs in both 2013 and 2014.» Temple has a winning record of 4-3 all-time against Syracuse, but the teams last faced each other in 2007. The unranked Owls won that contest 1-0 against the 20th-ranked Orange on the road.» The Owls edged the Hawks 3-2 at home last season on Sept. 7. Gross scored the game-winner on an assist from Kuhns with less than three minutes remaining in regulation. Temple holds an all-time record of 25-10 against Saint Joseph’s, and the Owls have won the past six meetings against SJU.

PROGRAM INFORMATION ROSTERALL-TIME RECORD• 101st season of field hockey• Years: 1914 to present• Overall record: 496-329-52 (1949-2016)• NCAA Appearances: 6 (1982, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992)

COACHING STAFFHead Coach .................................................... Marybeth FreemanPhone .....................................................................215-204-2688E-Mail .....................................................mbfreeman@temple.eduCareer Record/Year ....................................................... 54-52/7thRecord at TU/Year ............................................................8-13/2ndAssociate Head Coach .....................................................Roz EllisPhone ..................................................................... 215-204-5106E-Mail ........................................................... roz.ellis@temple.eduAssistant Coach .................................................... Katie GerzabekE-Mail ...................................................... kgerzabek@temple.eduDirector of Operations ...........................................Carissa VitteseE-Mail .................................................carissa.vittese@temple.eduVolunteer Asst. Coach ....................................... Chrissy Davidson

THE TEAMLetterwinners Returning/Lost ................................................13/12Starters Returning/Lost ............................................................ 5/62015 Overall Record ...............................................................8-13BIG EAST Record ..................................................................... 3-2BIG EAST Regular Season Finish ............................................ 2ndPostseason ............................................................ BIG EAST Final

TEMPLE UNIVERSITYFounded ................................................................................ 1884Enrollment .........................................................................39,000Nickname ..............................................................................OwlsSchool Colors ....................................................Cherry and WhiteAffiliation ..............................................................NCAA Division IConference ....................................................... American AthleticActing President: .................................................. Richard EnglertDirector of Athletics ..............................................Dr. Patrick KraftAthletic Dept. Phone................................................215-204-7447Ticket Office Phone ................................................215-204-8499University Website ...................................................... temple.eduAthletics Website ................................................... owlsports.com

No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown High School

00 Chloe Johnson So. GK 5-9 Phoenixville, Pa. Conestoga

2 Maddie Lilliock Fr. GK 5-6 Palmyra, Pa. Lower Dauphin

3 Maddie Merton Fr. M 5-4 Auckland, New Zealand St. Cuthbert’s College

4 Sam Souder Fr. F 5-7 West Deptford, N.J. West Deptford

5 Lucy Reed Fr. F 5-6 Lititz, Pa. Warwick

7 Kathryn Edgar Fr. M 5-5 Craigavon, N. Ireland Lurgan College

8 Maiyah Brown Jr. M/F 5-5 Allentown, Pa. William Allen

9 Michelle Walsh Sr. B/M 5-2 Phoenixville, Pa. Archbishop Carroll

10 Cristen Barnett Fr. F 5-6 Brecksville, Ohio Western Reserve Academy

11 Katie Foran Sr. F 5-6 Dauphin, Pa. Central Dauphin

12 Becky Gerhart Fr. B 5-6 Quakertown, Pa. Quakertown

13 Rachael Mueller Jr. M 5-3 Warminster, Pa. William Tennent

14 Hattie Kuhns Jr. F 5-6 Millerstown, Pa. Greenwood

15 Nellie Doyle So. B 5-10 Havertown, Pa. Merion Mercy Academy

16 Ali Meszaros Sr. B/M 5-2 Phoenixville, Pa. Phoenixville

19 Grace Gober Fr. B 5-6 Wyoming, Pa. Wyoming Area

20 Maris Stern R-So. F 5-6 Lehighton, Pa. Lehighton Area

21 Paige Gross Sr. M 5-2 Bethlehem, Pa. Liberty

23 Jessika Daniels So. M 5-9 Glen Mills, Pa. Garnet Valley

25 Sarah Keer R-Jr. F 5-5 Lehighton, Pa. Lehighton

28 Ashley Kucera R-So. M 5-3 Spring City, Pa. Owen J. Roberts

Head Coach: Marybeth Freeman (Old Dominion ’03) – Second seasonAssociate Head Coach: Roz Ellis (Iowa ’09) – Second seasonAssistant Coach: Katie Gerzabek (Maryland ’15) – Second seasonDirector of Operations: Carissa Vittese (Virginia ’14) – Second seasonVolunteer Assistant Coach: Chrissy Davidson (UConn ’15) – First seasonStrength & Conditioning Coach: Mike Inman (Salisbury ‘14) - First SeasonAssociate Director, Resnick Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes: Tara Evans (Syracuse ‘01) - Third Season

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NFHCA COACHES POLL - PRESEASONRank School Record Points1. North Carolina 0-0 915 (16)2. Syracuse 0-0 898 (25)3. *Connecticut 0-0 818 (3)4. Duke 0-0 7585. Virginia 0-0 746 (2)6. Maryland 0-0 688 (2)7. Wake Forest 0-0 5798. Boston College 0-0 5219. Albany 0-0 50310. Michigan 0-0 49111. Stanford 0-0 44812. Louisville 0-0 40413. *Liberty 0-0 30614. Delaware 0-0 29715. Princeton 0-0 28216. Northwestern 0-0 24217. Boston University 0-0 21918. Penn State 0-0 19919. James Madison 0-0 17520. *Old Dominion 0-0 130

*- BIG EAST Team • Italics indicate Owls’ 2016 opponentFirst-place votes in parentheses

SCOUTING SYRACUSESyracuse claimed its first-ever national title in 2015 after go-ing 21-1 overall and a perfect 16-0 in the ACC. Now in her 10th year as head coach, Ange Bradley was both the ACC Coach of the Year and NFHCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year last season. The Orange swept all four major conference awards, and return ACC Rookie of the Year Roos Weers in 2016. Weers was the team’s third-leading scorer with 14 goals, and tied for the team lead with nine assists as a freshman. The Orange have lost their top two scorers as well as their starting goal-keeper from last year.

SCOUTING SAINT JOSEPH’SSaint Joseph’s went 9-9 overall in 2015 with a 5-3 mark in the Atlantic 10. The third-seeded Hawks fell to second-seeded UMass in the A-10 Tournament semifinals to end their sea-son. Saint Joseph’s top player returns for just her sophomore season, as Anna Willocks led the team and the conference with 16 goals and 36 points on her way to being named A-10 Offensive Player of the Year and A-10 Rookie of the Year.

GRAND OPENING OF HOWARTH FIELD SET FOR SEPT. 2The 2016 season will serve as the inaugural year for Temple field hockey’s new stadium. The Owls will play for the first time on Howarth Field at the brand new Temple Sports Com-plex when they take on #18 Penn State at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2. The new complex just south of Temple’s Main Cam-pus was completed in August, and will also serve as the home for lacrosse, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s track & field.

The $22 million project, started in September 2015, features two playing fields. The space for field hockey and lacrosse, at the southern end of the property by 13th Street and Girard Avenue, is named Howarth Field in recognition of a $500,000 gift from former field hockey student-athlete Cherifa How-arth, ‘98, and her husband, Greg.

TEMPLE PICKED FOURTH IN THE BIG EASTTemple field hockey has been picked to finish fourth of eight teams in the 2016 BIG EAST Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Three-time defending conference champion UConn has been unanimously selected to defend its title.

The Huskies also garnered the BIG EAST Preseason Offensive Player of the Year honor in forward Charlotte Veitner, while UConn midfielder Anna Middendorf and Liberty back Serena Barr were selected as Preseason Co-Defensive Players of the Year. The Huskies collected all seven eligible first-place votes for a total of 49 points from the leagues’ head coaches, who were not allowed to vote for their own players or teams.

Conference newcomer Liberty collected 40 points to claim second place in the coaches’ poll, earning the remaining first-place vote. Old Dominion followed in third with 39 points while Temple rounded out the top four with 30 points. They were followed by Providence with 25, Villanova with 19, Quin-nipiac with 13 and Georgetown with nine.

Marybeth Free-man, a five-time NCAA Division I champion as a play-er and coach, was hired as the head field hockey coach of Temple University on March 10, 2015. In Freeman’s

debut season, the Owls made a second consecutive appearance in the BIG EAST Tournament Final before falling to two-time defending national champion and second-ranked UConn. The end of the season saw a five-game win streak for Temple prior to the confer-ence championship game. The run showed what the Owls were capable of, starting with a 1-0 upset of #12 Old Dominion on Oct. 20. Freeman had four Long-streth/NFHCA All-Region selections, four All-BIG EAST selections and a Longstreth/NFHCA All-American in her first season at Temple. Off the field, Freeman’s Owls earned the BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Award in field hockey for a second year in a row, and 20 of her student-ath-letes were named to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team. Freeman came to Temple after spending five seasons as the head field hockey coach for Columbia University, and was previously an assistant coach at the University of Maryland for seven seasons, winning three national championships with the Terps.

After lead-ing Columbia to 12 wins in 2014, tying for the second-most in program history, Freeman was named the Ivy League Coach of the Year. Her 2014 squad fin-ished with a re-cord of 12-5, and junior midfielder Christina Freibolt was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year as well as being named to the All-Region First Team and All-America Third Team. Freeman’s tenure at Columbia included a 10-win season in her first as head coach, and a pair of nine-win seasons in 2011 and 2012. The Lions’ schedules were among the most difficult in the nation in 2013-14. She leaves Columbia after producing seven NFHCA All-Re-gion selections over her five years with the program. While at Maryland, Freeman played an integral role in the team’s national titles in 2005, 2006 and 2008. After three seasons as an assistant coach, Free-man was promoted to associate head coach in 2007. The Terps also won three ACC titles in her time on staff, in 2005, 2008 and 2009. Among other responsibili-ties, Freeman was tasked with developing the Terps’ defense and goalkeeping unit. Three-time All-American

Kathryn Mason led the nation in goals against average twice under Freeman’s guidance, and was the first ever Terp goalkeeper to be honored as a First Team All-American. Freeman has also served as the head goalkeep-ing and defense coach for the US Field Hockey High Performance Mid-Atlantic Region, in addition to work-ing with the US Field Hockey Futures program. She is a 2003 graduate of Old Dominion Universi-ty, and helped the Lady Monarchs win national titles in 1998 and 2000. The four-year starter also led her team to a Colonial Athletic Association title in each year of her collegiate career. In addition to her success on the field, Freeman excelled in the classroom as she was a four-year NFHCA Academic All-American. Freeman earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from ODU in 2003, and earned her master’s in education from Maryland in 2008.

HEAD COACH MARYBETH FREEMANSECOND YEAR • OLD DOMINION ‘03CAREER RECORD 54-52 (SEVEN YEARS)

Freeman (center) with assistant coach Katie Gerzabek (left) and associate head caoch Roz Ellis.