The top three of that class:. Her 38 goals were tied for the third most on the team. In her super senior 5th year season Katie Hoeg started right were she left off with a five 5 assist and seven 7 point performance versus Stony Brook. The only game of the year in which Hoeg was held scoreless was the second game of the season versus Florida. Hoeg had six 6 or more points in 11 of her 21 games and had three 3 or more assists in 14 of the 21 games.
Her 73 assists in will likely hold as the UNC record for a very long time. It is amazing to think that Hoeg ended her career with assists after only have nine 9 in her freshman season. In the 90 second shot clock was implemented and in only six 6 total players, three 3 from each team, were allowed in the midfield during draws. This definitely sped up the game and ultimately lead to more points and scoring.
Hoeg was a player that benefited greatly on the stats sheet. She demolished UNC assist records and will hold the total points record until early in when Jamie Ortega breaks it. While some expected a Tewaaraton Award type season out of Katie Hoeg, there were only so many Tar Heels that could have been finalists. Jamie Ortega and Taylor Moreno were the two that got the nod. Some could argue that Hoeg had a better season than Ortega; especially when it came down to tight games and consistency.
In the regular season finale with Ortega sidelined, Hoeg had five 5 assists and six 6 points. She had a hat trick against Boston College and did everything in her power to not end her UNC career with a loss.
Unfortunately, she came up short. In her career, she went to three different Final Fours but never won a Final Four game. It is hard to imagine a player getting to assists. Hoeg had the luxury of passing the ball in the vicinity of Jamie Ortega and 3 would come up with it and put it in the back of the net. In her freshman season, Caitlyn Wurzburger showed signs of being a great feeder from X but Wurburger will only have Ortega for two of her four seasons in Chapel Hill.
Wurzburger ended her freshman year with 36 goals and 17 assists so we will have to track her progress. She will likely evolve into a scorer rather than a feeder. Hoeg will leave UNC as one of the greatest of all time. It was a pleasure to watch her for five years and her impact on the program will last for years to come.
It is painful to type that she never won a National Championship. Hoeg will remain in Chapel Hill and go to dental school so she will be around the program. Unfortunately, she will never wear the 8 in Carolina Blue ever again. Jamie Ortega led the Tar Heels in goals and points.
The second leading goal scorer was Scottie Rose Growney with 36 less goals. Katie Hoeg was second on the team with points coming mostly from her 71 assists. This was a precursor of the physical style of play that would be inflected on Ortega all season.
After going to the bench and shaking off the cobwebs, Ortega came back out late in the second half to add an assist to the scoresheet. One has to wonder if Ortega was out for longer if it would have been better for the Tar Heel team as it would have forced other scorers to step up. We will never know. Throughout the first half of the regular season Ortega and the Tar Heels attack was unstoppable.
Even in early season games in terrible weather versus Florida and Duke, the Heels cruised to victory. Ortega was good for a hat trick in every regular season game besides the Florida game. In nine of her 21 games Ortega had six 6 points or more.
In regular season matchups against the teams that went on to play in the National Championship game, Ortega had six 6 goals against Boston College and five 5 goals and three 3 assists against Syracuse. The efficiency and domination by Ortega and the Tar Heels was a blessing and a curse. During the regular season, Ortega was almost guaranteed to score on 8 meter free position shots. Then, the Notre Dame game happened and defenses better understood how to challenge the Tar Heels.
It became readily apparent when Ortega sat out the final regular season game versus Duke. It helps that Katie Hoeg was passing to her all four years but Ortega is elite catching the ball in traffic and scoring.
In tight situations around the goal, Ortega seemed to always come up with the ball and get it in the back of the net. What Ortega is not is a 1v1 split dodge attacker that can take the ball to goal at will.
That's my go-to spot every time," Cloutier said. North Carolina is the first school since Princeton in to win the women's and men's NCAA championships in the same year. Cloutier finished with five goals in following his record nine-goal performance against Loyola in the semifinals. I knew that if I just played as loose as possible we'd get the job done. This was North Carolina's first national title since The Tar Heels were playing for the championship for the first time since Maryland, bidding for its first national championship since , defeated Brown in overtime in the semifinals.
Our guys make this fun because they care so much, they take care of one another. It's been a great year. Rutgers scored three of the first four goals in the second half and led for a span of 10 minutes in the third quarter but top-seeded North Carolina rallied back to create a tie entering the fourth quarter.
But UNC soon made it Charalambides broke the tie but the Tar Heels answered. On the final possession of regulation, the Scarlet Knights defense locked down the Tar Heels and sent the game into overtime.
All of Rutgers' losses came against ranked teams. Colin Kirst, who spent four years at Lehigh before transferring to Rutgers, said, "This was a special group, especially with the year we were given. The returning guys were unbelievable leaders, especially welcoming me in to the program The loss is disappointing, but at the same time, I'm happy to have been part of it. The Scarlet Knights took down Lehigh in the first round, the first time they advanced in this tourney since
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