Laura Janssen

Two-Time NFHCA All-South Region Second Team
2020 All-ACC Second Team

2023 – NCAA Semifinals

• Finished her career ranked second in program history in number of games played (103)
• Finished her career with 39 goals (12 game-winners) with 10 assists for 88 points
• Finished the season with six goals and a career-best five assists for 17 points
• Scored the game-tying goal and assisted on the game-winning goal in the season-opening victory against No. 5 Penn State (8/25)
• Named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week for her efforts in the Penn State game. It is her first career ACC POW award (8/29)
• Assisted on three goals at William & Mary, her first career multi-assist game and contributed the most assists in a game by a Cavalier since 2017 (9/8)
• Scored the game-winner in the 1-0 victory against No. 14 Harvard (9/10)
• Scored Virginia’s second goal in the 2OT win against Syracuse (09/22)
• Scored a goal and had an assist in the 5-0 victory at Wake Forest (10/13)
• Scored her fifth goal of the season at James Madison (10/24)
• Scored a goal in the ACC quarterfinal win against Syracuse (10/31)
• NFHCA NCAA Division I Preseason Watchlist
• Co-Captain
• All-ACC Academic Team

2022

• NFHCA All-South Region Second Team, her second time earning All-Region recognition
• Ranked sixth in the ACC in goals per game and 8th in points per game
• Scored a career-best 12 goals with two assists for 26 points
• Started all 21 games
• Scored a goal in the season-opener at Penn State (8/26)
• Scored a pair of goals at Delaware, the third multi-goal game of her career (8/28)
• Scored the game-winning overtime goal against JMU (9/4), giving her four goals in the first four games of the season
• Scored her fifth goal in five games at Northwestern (9/11)
• Scored her sixth goal (in seven games) to fuel UVA’s comeback win against Saint Joseph’s (9/18)
• Scored her team-leading 11th goal in the final two minutes of the ACC final against UNC (11/4)
• Scored the game-tying goal in the NCAA Tournament game against Iowa (11/11)
• VaSID First Team All-State
• All-ACC Academic Team
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2021

• All-ACC Academic Team
• Tied for second on the team in goals scored (5) and points (12)
• Appeared in 20 games with 15 starts
• Scored the game-winning goal at Wake Forest, her first goal of the season (9/24)
• Scored her second goal of the season at Old Dominion (10/17)
• Scored the game-winner against Boston College in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championship (11/4)
• Converted both the first and final shootout attempts against Louisville in the ACC Championship semifinal, winning the game for the Cavaliers (11/5)
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2020-21

• NHFCA All-South Region Second Team
• All-ACC Second Team
• ACC All-Tournament Team
• All-ACC Field Hockey Academic Team
• Appeared in all 18 games with 16 starts, scoring a team-best nine goals for 18 points
• Ranked fourth in the ACC in goals per game (0.50) and seventh in points per game (1.00)
• Scored both goals in the team’s 2-1 victory over Wake Forest in the ACC Quarterfinals (11/5)
• Also netted game-winners against Wake Forest (9/27) and Syracuse (10/02)
• Finished the fall ranked second in the ACC in goals scored with seven
• Scored her seven goals in the fall on 15 shots for a team-best .467 shooting percentage
• Scored the game-tying goal to force overtime against North Carolina (4/9)
• VaSID First Team All-State
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2019 – NCAA Semifinals

• Finished the season with seven goals and an assist for 15 points
• Scored the game-winning goals against Ohio State ((/8), Longwood (9/29), Liberty (10/28) and Wake Forest (11/1)
• Scored both goals in the 2-1 victory over Ohio State (9/8)
• Appeared in all 23 games with seven starts
• Had the highest shooting percentage on the team, scoring seven goals on 18 shots (.389)
• Named the Synapse Sports National Rookie of the Week (Nov. 5) after helping Virginia to a pair of ranked wins on the week, getting the game-winning goal in both contests. She notched the only goal in a 1-0 victory over Liberty and then opened the scoring in a 3-1 win over Wake Forest
• 2019 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

High School/Club Hockey

• Has played for Hockyclub Den Bosch since 2014, twice finishing second at the Dutch National Championships before winning the title in June of 2019
• Helped lead her hockey club to the title at the 2017-18 Dutch Indoor Championships
• Has played defender, midfield and attack throughout her career

Personal

• Daughter of Marie-Louise van Esch and Eric Janssen
• Has three older sister, Elisa, Lotte and Marleen
• 2022-23 Michelle Cusimano Vachris Bicentennial Scholarship recipient
• Earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in May 2023
• Enrolled in the educational psychology master’s program