2024 Field Hockey Roster

18 Colette Staadecker

  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Wellington College
  • Hometown Weybridge, Surrey, England

Biography

2024 (Senior):
  • Appeared in all 16 games, starting 15
  • Recorded two goals and two assists
  • 2024 NFHCA National Academic Squad honoree
England Hockey: 2016-2020 National Performance Centre… 2019 Futures Cup.

2023 (Junior): NFHCA National Academic Squad honoree... Scored first career goal Sept. 29 against Harvard... Had first career assist Sept. 22 at Penn... Made first career start Sept. 3 at Saint Joseph's... Finished season with two goals and two assists... Appeared in all 16 games, starting 15 (both career highs).

2022 (Sophomore): Appeared in seven games.

2021 (First Year): Appeared in 12 games... Made Yale debut Sept. 25 in 2-1 win vs. Brown.

Wellington College: Team captain 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020… Four-year first team center back starter… Team was national semi-finalist 2017… Team was indoor and outdoor National Champions 2018… 2019 Outdoor Regional Finals… Team was national finalists 2020… Also played on tennis and netball teams… Top recruited sports scholar 2016…  Head of Philosophy & English Society… Deputy Head of Politics Society… Head of politics section of the “Wellingtonian” (school newspaper).

Club Hockey: Marlow HC Most Promising Player award 2016… Surbiton HC Up and Coming Player of the Year 2017… Surbiton was national finalists 2017, Indoor Copperbox semi-finalists 2018, regional finalists 2019, Indoor Nationals participant 2020… U16 Performance First Team… U18 Elite First Team… International Ladies Second Team.

Notes: Has written for Yale Daily News... Member of Combined Cadet Force during sophomore and junior year at Wellington College... Completed Marine Corps Physical Trial and Selection process in June 2018... In 2019, after grueling three-day Royal Marine survival exercise (which included firearms training, hunting for dinner and being stalked for 48 hours by senior Royal Marines), qualified for Junior Royal Marine Cadet Corps… Refugee Service Team volunteer… U8s and U10s field hockey coach and umpire.

Why Yale? “Yale is everything I seek in my university experience. The energy across campus is palpable: from the residential halls to the sports fields, I could not wait to experience the camaraderie of the students and their eagerness to engage and learn. So, as soon as I stepped on campus, I could feel it in my heart that Yale was the place for me.”

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Historical Player Information

  • 18

    2021First Year

    B
    5'10"
    18
  • 18

    2022Sophomore

    B
    5'10"
    18
  • 18

    2023Junior

    B
    5'10"
    18
  • 18

    2024Senior

    B
    5'10"
    18