Newtown, Pa. – Defensive Player of the Year Lauren Flynn, Rookie of the Year Brooke Hughes, and Coaching Staff of the Year were among the major honors collected by the Stevens Institute of Technology field hockey team as part of a significant year-end MAC Freedom All-Conference awards haul for the Ducks, as revealed by the conference office Monday.

Flynn was joined on the First Team by Gabi Moroney, Sophia Cozza, Molly DiCampli, and Lily Wierzbicki; all five were named First Team or Second Team in 2023 or 2024.

Taylor Brooks and Emilia Lopes rounded out the All-Conference selections with Second Team recognition – Brooks earns All-MAC recognition for the first time, Lopes earns it for the third time.

Head coach Meredith York and her staff engineered a 16-2 regular season campaign that saw the Ducks ranked in every NFHCA National Coaches Poll during the season, reaching as high as No. 9. The regular season was highlighted by two Top 10 wins, including a 5-1 win over then-No. 9 Rowan. The team finished conference play with not only an unblemished 7-0 mark, but without trailing at any point in any of those seven contests.

One of just four players in the conference with at least four defensive saves during the regular season, Flynn joined with Wierzbicki, Lopes, and Aleah Dinmore to form a back line that conceded less than a goal per game. Flynn also showed she was just as much a force offensively as defensively, finishing the regular season second on the team in assists (11) and points (25) while tying for fourth in goals (seven).

On a team with nine field players starting at least 16 games and logging at least 800 minutes, Hughes made the most of her three starts and just under 600 minutes, scoring six goals (two of them game-winners) and assisting on four others. Hughes tied the single-game program record with three assists against Eastern, scored in three straight conference games, then scored twice in the regular season finale against FDU-Florham.

Moroney notched her second 16-goal season, just the fourth player in program history to do so, adding four assists and ending the regular season with 100 points, just the fifth player in program history to reach the century mark. Moroney scored twice in the 5-1 win over Rowan, added hat tricks against both Eastern and King's, and scored in four consecutive games on two separate occasions.

Cozza threepeats as a first teamer after a nine-goal, six-assist regular season campaign that included the game-winning goal against then-No. 10 York, a two-goal five-assist effort against Swarthmore, a two-goal outing against Eastern, a two-assist day against King's, and a three-point regular season capper against FDU-Florham.

DiCampli adds the First Team honor to her Second Team selection from last season, scoring six goals (three game-winners) and assisting on six more while showing the full extent of her game on both ends of the field. The junior scored in back-to-back games three times – including an eventual game-winner against Widener, a three-point outing (and eventual game-winner) against William Paterson, and a double-overtime winner against DeSales.

Wierzbicki, a 2023 first teamer and 2024 honorable mention, started all 18 regular season affairs and led all conference goalies in goals-against average (0.88) with a save percentage north of 0.780. In conference play, Wierzbicki was even more dominant, with a 0.824 save percentage and a 0.464 goals-against average. The senior recorded 15 saves while allowing just two goals combined in the Top 10 wins over York and Rowan, and recorded seven saves against Christopher Newport (then No. 2, now No. 1 in D-III).

Brooks was a substantial part of why the team demolished the program record of 55 assists in a season set just last year, registering 16 of the team's 67 helpers even before the start of the postseason. The junior had three assists between the York & Rowan wins, adding two each in wins over Eastern and William Paterson, and tied the single-game program record with three against Arcadia.

For the third straight season, Lopes was an iron lady on the field, playing all but 12 minutes during the regular season, surpassing 1,000 minutes for the fourth straight year. The Stewartsville (N.J.) native scored her second collegiate goal in a win over Swarthmore, added an assist against King's, and had a defensive save against Christopher Newport that eventually helped the Ducks become one of just two teams to hold a lead against the Captains this season. 

Stevens won its third straight MAC Freedom Championship on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Misericordia and have earned the right to host an NCAA Tournament game on Wednesday at 5:00 PM against Amherst, in what will be the first meeting all-time between the teams. Ticket, live video, and live stat links are available on StevensDucks.com

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