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Annie McDonough
Midfield
Position
5'5''
Height
Junior
Class
Kennett Square, Pa.
Hometown
Unionville
High School
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Annie McDonough Pronunciation
2023 International
- Named to the US Women’s Indoor National Team roster for the 2023 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup (IHWC), being held in Pretoria, South Africa, from February 5 to 11
- Served as the team captain in the tournament, scoring a goal off a penalty stroke
2022
- NFHCA First Team All-American, her first All-America recognition
- NFHCA All-South Region First Team
- All-ACC First Team, her second time earning All-Conference honors and her first on the top team
- All-ACC Tournament Team
- Coach’s Award of Excellence winner at the Hoos Choice Awards
- VaSID Field Hockey State Player of the Year
- Started more games (96) than any player in program history
- Scored three goals with six assists for 12 points
- Finished her career with 15 goals and 21 assists for 51 points, appearing in 97 games, starting 96 of those
- Co-captain, her second season being a team captain
- Had two assists in the win against Syracuse (9/23)
- Had two assists in the road win at Duke (10/07)
- She scored two of her three goals this season in the ACC tournament
- Scored a goal in the ACC Semifinal win against Wake Forest and assisted on the overtime game-winner (11/2)
- Scored the Cavaliers’ first goal in the ACC Championship against UNC (11/4)
- All-ACC Academic Team
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
2021
- All-ACC Second Team, her first conference postseason honor
- All-ACC Academic Team
- Tied for second on the team in points with 12
- Had four goals and four assists
- Scored two goals with an assist at William & Mary (9/3). Scored her other two goals in the second meeting against the Tribe (10/20)
- Co-captain
- Announced she will return for a fifth year in 2022
2020-21
- All-ACC Field Hockey Academic Team
- VaSID All-State Second Team
- Appeared in 14 games with 13 starts
- Scored four goals, all coming in the spring portion of the schedule
- Scored her first goal of the season at Louisville, tying the game in the fourth quarter (3/13)
- Scored again in the next game, a 5-2 victory over James Madison (3/21)
- Had the game-winning goal in the 1-0 victory against Boston College (4/2)
- Also had the game-winner in the 2-1 win at Syracuse that closed out the season (4/16)
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
2019
- All-ACC Academic Team
- Appeared in 22 games, starting all 22
- Scored three goals with 10 assists for 16 points, ranking second on the team in assists and tied for third in points
- Fourth in the ACC in assists per game at 0.45
- Scored the game-winning goal in the home game against Old Dominion (10/6)
- Scored the game-winning goal against Maryland in the NCAA quarterfinals that sent Virginia to the semifinals for the first time since 2010, redirecting in a shot from Rachel Robinson 5:28 into overtime (11/17)
- Also scored a goal at Drexel (10/20)
- Named to the U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team roster, playing at the Rohrmax Cup in Vienna, Austria. Won a bronze medal as part of the USA Gold squad (1/2/20)
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
2018
- Named to the Synapse Sports National All-Rookie Team
- 2018 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
- Started all 19 games for the Cavaliers
- One of three freshmen in the starting lineup in the season-opener at Drexel (Aug. 24)
- Scored her first collegiate goal against Wake Forest (Oct. 19), which was also a game-winner
- Made a key defensive save in the ACC tournament victory over Boston College (Nov. 1)
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
High School/Club Hockey
- Plays for the USA Women’s Indoor National Team, including competing at the 2018 Women’s National World Cup in Berlin, Germany
- Former member of the USA U17 and U19 Indoor Junior National Team
- Member of the 2016 USA U17 Junior National Team
- Member of the 2017 USA U19 Junior National Team
- Also played lacrosse at Unionville High
Personal
- Daughter of Thomas and Marina McDonough
- Played one season alongside her sister, Izzy, on the UVA field hockey team
- Her twin sister, Maddie, is playing field hockey at Michigan State
- Brother, Nick, played ice hockey at Kentucky
- Earned her Bachelor’s degree in cognitive science with a minor in entrepreneurship in May 2022
- Taking postgraduate classes in the Curry School of Education
- Recipient of the Paul B. Barringer Scholarship