Meghen Hengerer

2024 All-ACC Second Team
2024 NFHCA All-Region Second Team

2024

• All-ACC Second Team, her first time earning a conference honor
• NFHCA All-South Region Second Team, her first time earning a regional honor
• Started all 19 games, assisting on four goals
• Finished her career having played in 86 games with 70 starts, scoring three goals with 16 assists for 22 points
• Had her first assist of the season against American (9/15)
• Assisted on goals in back-to-back games against Saint Joseph’s (10/13) and Syracuse (10/18)
• All-ACC Academic Team
• Voted Teammate of the Year at the Hoos Choice Awards

2023 – NCAA Semifinals

• NCAA All-Tournament Team
• Played in 15 games with 11 starts
• Assisted on UVA’s first goal in the ACC Quarterfinal victory against Syracuse (10/31)
• Assisted on a goal in the victory against Saint Joseph’s in the NCAA First Round (11/10)
• Co-Captain, her second year serving as a team captain
• All-ACC Academic Team
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• Named to the 2023-24 ACC Honor Roll

2022

• Presented the “Teammate of the Year” award for field hockey at the 2023 Hoos Choice Awards
• Appeared in 20 games with 17 starts
• Ranked ninth in the ACC in assists per game (0.35)
• Assisted on the game-winning goal at Delaware (8/28)
• Scored her first goal of the year against William & Mary (10/04)
• Assisted on three goals in the ACC Tournament
• Co-captain
• All-ACC Academic Team
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

Summer of 2022

• Named to the US U21 roster for the Uniphar 5-Nations tournament, but did not compete
• Added to the US U21  Women’s National Team roster (3/9). Named as a non-traveling alternate for the FIH Junior World Cup team

2021

• Had one goal and two assists for four points
• Appeared in 14 games with nine starts
• Scored a goal in the win against Delaware after having an assist in the season-opener against Penn State (8/29)
• Also assisted on a goal in the home game against Old Dominion (9/26)
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

Summer 2021

• Invited to US U21 Selection Camp after the US Women’s National Championships (6/24)

2020-21

• Appeared in all 18 games with 14 starts, including starting the final 13 games of the season
• Had her first career assist on a goal against North Carolina (10/11)
• Scored her first goal in the season-finale at Syracuse (4/16)
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB HOCKEY

• 2020 U.S. Women’s National Indoor Development Team
• Scored 37 goals with 30 assists in three years at Bernards High School
• Two-time North Jersey Group 2 First Team after being named to the second team her sophomore year
• Three-time All Somerset County first team, first team All-Division and first team All-Skyland Conference
• Earned the Scholar-Athlete distinction three times
• Played on the Irish U16 National Field Hockey team, earning her first national team cap against USA
• As a member of the Irish U16 team, played a three-game series against Scotland in Scotland as well as traveling to Spain to compete in the Six Nations Tournament
• Member of the Irish U15 girls soccer team from 2014-16, scoring a goal in a match against England’s U15 squad

PERSONAL

• Parents are Robin Hengerer and Mark Hengerer
• Twin sister of Lilly
• Older sister, Kelsey, plays field hockey at Richmond, graduated in 2020
• Lived in Galway, Ireland for over five years, moving to the United States for her sophomore year of high school
• Also played Gaelic football while living in Ireland
• Speech Comm Disorders major