2014 (Sophomore): NFHCA National Academic Squad honoree for the second time ... Second team All-Ivy League ... Earned Yale''s Player of the Year Award, awarded to the member of the team who has performed at the highest level for the season as a whole, determined by the coaching staff through game-to-game recognition as the Player of the Match ... Led Yale in goals and points (6-1-13) ... Started all 17 games ... Had first career assist Oct. 18 at Dartmouth ... Scored four goals in the final six games ... Scored game-winning goal on penalty stroke in season-ending 3-2 overtime win at Brown Nov. 8 ... Was 2-for-2 on penalty strokes for the season.
2013 (Freshman): NFHCA National Academic Squad honoree ... Made varsity debut in season opener Sept. 6 vs. Virginia ... Appeared in four games, starting all four and scoring one goal, before season-ending injury ... First career goal came on Sept. 7 in 6-0 win vs. Sacred Heart.
High School: Third team NFHCA All-American 2012 … First team all-state 2011, 2012 … First team All-Pennsylvania Region 2011,2012 … First team all-section 2011, 2012 … First team All-Lancaster-Lebanon League 2011, 2012 ... Hempfield advanced to Pennsylvania state tournament each of her four years, and won the state championship in 2011 … Captained field hockey team … Ran on indoor and outdoor track teams, and was a captain on each one … Won A. Landis Brackbill Award as scholar-athlete from Lancaster-Lebanon Secondary School Athletic Association … Member of National Honor Society and Society for Academic Excellence in Foreign Language … Peer tutor … English as a Second Language tutor.
Club Team: Lanco Premier, won the winter Keystone State Tournament in 2011 and 2012.
Notes: Worked at a day camp ... Coached a field hockey camp that teaches girls about the sport and about other aspects of life ... Comes from same home town and high school as Yale head coach Pam Stuper.
Why Yale? “The blend of academic excellence and athletic achievement, along with the tradition and the opportunities that come along with attending Yale made choosing this school an easy decision.”
