2025 Field Hockey Roster

Sam Rubin

5 Poppy Beales

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Framlingham College
  • Hometown King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England

Biography

Note: Named team captain ahead of the 2025 season

2024 (Junior):
  • Started all 16 games
  • Recorded six goals, tied for the team lead, and two assists
  • Recorded multi-goal performances against Lehigh on Sept. 6 and Penn on Sept. 27
  • Scored the game-winning goal against Penn on Sept. 27
  • Named Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 30
  • 2024 NFHCA All-Mideast Region First Team
  • 2024 All-Ivy First Team
England Hockey: U18 England trialist 2021… DISE England Girls Red 2020-2021… England Hockey Performance Centre 2018-2020… Played National League hockey for two years.

2023 (Sophomore): First team NFHCA All-Mideast Region... First team All-Ivy League... Earned team's Player of the Year Award... Tied for fifth in Ivy League in goals with a team-best nine, including four game-winning goals... 18 points placed ninth in league... Started all 16 games... Had goal-scoring streaks of four games and three games... Scored four game-winning goals in a five-game span Oct. 4 through Oct. 22.

2022 (First Year): Appeared in 15 games, starting seven... Scored four goals... Made Yale debut at Wagner Sept. 2... Scored first career goal Sept. 11 in 2-1 win vs. Drexel... Made first career start Sept. 30 vs. Princeton.

Framlingham College: National school Indoor Finals third place 2022… Participated in athletics, golf, tennis and netball (captain) as well as hockey… Was deputy head of house in Victoria House.

Harleston Magpies Hockey Club: National outdoor semi-finals 2022… Ladies 1st team Young Player of the Season 2022… National club outdoor finals second place 2021… National club Indoor Finals second place 2020… Ladies 2nd team Player of the season 2020… Ladies 2nd top goal scorer 2019-20… Ladies 1st team top goal scorer 2021-22.

Pelicans Hockey Club: Player of the season 2019.

Notes: Has played golf for Hunstanton Golf Club and for Norfolk Ladies… Golf handicap is 4.

Why Yale? “The opportunity to study at Yale was one that I just couldn’t miss and I can’t wait to get on campus and be a part of the amazing community, both on the hockey pitch and in the classroom!”

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Historical Player Information

  • 5

    2022First Year

    F
    5'6"
    5
  • 5

    2023Sophomore

    F
    5'6"
    5
  • 5

    2024Junior

    F
    5'6"
    5
  • 5
    C

    2025Senior

    F
    5'6"
    5
    C