| Height: | 5-4 |
| Year: | Fr. |
| Hometown: | Cape Town, South Africa |
| High School: | Herschel Girls School |
| Position: | F |
| Major: | Undeclared |
| Residential College: | Branford |
National Team Program: Selected to South African national U-16 high performance squad (2010).
High School: Captained Western Province (WP) U-18A … WP U-21A, third at IPT … Coaches' Player of the Tournament at the St. Mary's Hockey Festival (28 top teams nationally), Herschel placed third (best finish ever) … PGSGU indoor league… Herschel Sportswoman of the Year in 2012... Invitational Player for Kennemer Lyceum, Netherlands (winners) at Cape Town Hockey Festival 2011… Kennemer senior and Herschel U-16A basketball team 2010 ... Player of the Indoor Hockey Pro-series 2008-10 … Inter-schools Cross Country winner 2008-09 … Academic Top 10 of Western Cape matriculants … Herschel Dux (highest academic rank in class) … Academic Prefect … Top awards for bilingualism, and an enquiring mind in 2012 … National English Olympiad, top 1% … Sonia Beck Essay Prize … Winning inter-house play (script writer, composer, lead actress) in 2011 … WP Math Senior A team … National Math Olympiad Final Round (top 100) in 2010 … Johann Vos Regional Piano competition, second place in 2009.
Club Team: Played for WPCC 1st Ladies’ team (with three national team players), runner-up in the provincial Grand Challenge 2011-12… Junior Sports Achiever of the Year finalist 2012… Most Promising Player (joint) 2010-11.
Notes: First Yale field hockey player from South Africa … First name is pronounced RO-nee … Enjoys exploring the outdoors, reading, photography, music, piano, film and theatre.
Why Yale? “Although I've never been there yet dreamed, Yale somehow found me, I suppose. I just couldn't say no.”
| Recent Games | ||
|---|---|---|
| Oct 19 | Dartmouth | W, 4-3 |
| Oct 20 | Maine | W, 4-3 |
| Oct 26 | at Penn | L, 1-0 |
| Nov 1 | at Columbia | W, 3-1 |
| Nov 3 | Connecticut | L, 3-0 |
| Nov 9 | Brown | W, 2-1 |
| Statistics category | Overall | Conf | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | 15 | 7 | ||
| Games started | 12 | 6 | ||
| Goals | 3 | 0 | ||
| Assists | 2 | 1 | ||
| Points | 8 | 1 | ||
| Shots | 20 | 12 | ||
| Shot Pct | .150 | .000 | ||
| Game-winning goals | 0 | 0 | ||
| Defensive saves | 0 | 0 | ||
| Penalty strokes | 0-0 | 0-0 | ||
| Date | Opponent | Score | g | a | pts | sh | pct | gw | ds | ps-att |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6 | Virginia | L, 6-1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sep 7 | Sacred Heart | W, 6-0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sep 14 | at Albany | L, 4-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Sep 15 | at Hofstra | L, 4-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Sep 21 | Harvard | L, 3-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Sep 22 | Vermont | W, 3-2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Sep 27 | at Princeton | L, 2-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 5 | Cornell | W, 3-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 6 | at Quinnipiac | L, 3-2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .500 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 12 | at California | W, 3-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 13 | at Stanford | L, 4-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 19 | Dartmouth | W, 4-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 20 | Maine | W, 4-3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Oct 26 | at Penn | L, 1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Nov 1 | at Columbia | W, 3-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Nov 3 | Connecticut | L, 3-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Nov 9 | Brown | W, 2-1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| gp | g | a | pts | sh | sh% | sog | sog% | gw | ds | ps-att | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 15 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 20 | .150 | 17 | .850 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Conference | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | .000 | 10 | .833 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Exhibition | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0-0 |
| Home | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | .200 | 10 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Away | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | .100 | 7 | .700 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Neutral | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0-0 |
| Wins | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | .182 | 11 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| Losses | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | .111 | 6 | .667 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| September | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .000 | 4 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| October | 7 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 12 | .250 | 9 | .750 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| November | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .000 | 4 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 |
| December | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0-0 |
