Rachel Robinson

2019 Feature: Strength & Conditioning Internship  |  2020: Robinson Named to the USWNT

2021

• NFHCA Third-Team All-American, her third time earning All-America honors
• NFHCA All-South Region First Team, her fifth time earning All-Region honors
• All-ACC Tournament Team
• NFHCA Senior Game selection
• Team captain, her fourth-straight year of being voted to that responsibility by her teammates, and the first player in program history to be a four-year captain
• Played in 20 games, starting all 20
• Scored three goals with three assists
• Scored her first goal of the year against Drexel (10/24)
• Had assists in three straight games against William & Mary (10/20), Syracuse (10/22) and Drexel (10/24)
• Scored a goal in both of the first two games of the ACC Championship, including converting a penalty stroke against Louisville (11/5)
• Finished her career playing in 95 games with 91 starts, tallying 10 goals (three game-winners) with 13 assists for 33 points
• VaSID All-State Second Team
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• Five-time member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll

2020-21

• NFHCA Third Team All-American
• Named to the 2020 US Women’s National Team roster (1/10/20)
• Recipient of the 2021 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award, a prestigious honor from the Atlantic Coast Conference
• NFHCA All-South Region First Team
• First-Team All-ACC
• All-ACC Field Hockey Academic Team
• Team co-captain, her third-straight season being a team captain
• Started all 11 games in the fall, appeared in 15 games overall with 13 starts
• Had an assist in a goal against Louisville (10/23)
• Had a defensive save in the 1-0 victory against Syracuse (10/2)
• Preseason All-ACC
• VaSID All-State Second Team
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2019

• ACC Field Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the seventh player in program history to win the honor, but the first to do so since 1998
• Longstreth/NFHCA First Team All-American
• Longstreth/NFHCA All-South Region First Team
• All-ACC First Team
• All-ACC Academic Team
• All-NCAA Tournament Team
• VaSID Virginia State Player of the Year
• VaSID All-State First Team
• Hoos Choice Coach’s Award of Excellence recipient
• Scored five goals with four assists
• Scored the game-winning goals against Penn State (9/1) and the regular-season meeting with Duke (11/7)
• Scored Virginia’s lone goal in the NCAA semifinal game against Princeton (11/22)
• Preseason All-ACC
• Named to the 2019 U.S. U-21 Women’s National Team, traveled to Monchengladbach, Germany from April 14-22 to take on Germany’s U-21 Team and Great Britain’s U-21 Team
• Competed at the USA Field Hockey Young Women’s National Championship in June, earning a bronze medal with Team Freedom, earning an invitation to USA Field Hockey Women’s Development Team camp in December
• 2019 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad

2018

• Longstreth/NFHCA All-South Region Second Team
• VaSID All-State Second Team
• 2018 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
• Played in 17 games with 15 starts
• Made three defensive saves, including one in each of the two ACC Tournament games
• Part of a defensive back line that posted three shutouts
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2017

• All-South Region Second Team
• All-ACC Academic Team
• VaSID All-State Second Team
• Named to the 2018 United States U-21 National Team (Dec. 28)
• 2017 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
• Finished the season with two goals and five assists
• Was in the starting lineup in her collegiate debut in the season opener against Fairfield (Aug. 25)
• Had three assists in her first collegiate game (Aug. 25)
• Scored the first goal of her collegiate career in the win over Duke (Sept. 8)
• Scored the game-winning goal in the 2-0 victory at No. 13 Wake Forest (Sept. 29)

High School/Club Hockey

• Member of the US U19 Junior National Team since her junior year of high school
• Three-time first-team all-state
• Second Team All-American in 2015 and third team in 2016
• Also played basketball and softball at Donegal High, scoring over 1,000 career points in basketball
• Helped lead Donegal to state titles in both field hockey and softball her senior year

Personal

• Daughter of David and Sheir Robinson
• Has two older brothers, Michael and Chris, and two older sisters, Katie and Amanda
• Sister, Katie, played field hockey at Virginia (2010-13)
• Sister, Amanda, played field hockey at Michigan State. Mother, Sheri, played field hockey and softball at Elizabethtown
• Earned a BSED in kinesiology and is working on her M.Ed in the same concentration
• Recipient of the 2021-2022 Jane Miller Endowed Scholarship