Tara Vittese Named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week

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Sept. 5, 2017

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia field hockey senior midfielder Tara Vittese (Cherry Hill, N.J.) was named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week in honors announced by the Atlantic Coast Conference on Tuesday (Sept. 5).

Vittese accumulated 19 points in two games over the weekend, scoring eight goals with three assists. In Friday’s 9-0 blanking of Columbia, she scored three goals and assisted on three others, having a hand in six of the nine Virginia goals. In Sunday’s victory, the senior midfielder scored all five of the Cavaliers’ goals in a 5-3 win over Monmouth. The Hawks twice pulled to within a goal in that game, only to have Vittese answer with an insurance score.

Vittese’s five-goal game marked the first time since 1975 that a Virginia player scored five goals in a game, and tied the ACC single-game record accomplished most recently by North Carolina’s Gab Major in 2015.

This is fifth time in her career that Vittese has been named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week.

Duke goalkeeper Sammi Steele was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Week.