Cato Geusgens

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Position

5'7''

Height

Junior

Class

Wassenaar, Netherlands

Hometown

Rijnlands Lyceum

High School

Cato Geusgens Pronunciation

2022

Played in 19 games with 16 starts
Scored three goals with four assists for 10 points
Finished her career having played 75 games with 62 starts, scoring 11 goals (four game-winners) with 11 assists for 33 points
Scored a goal off a penalty corner at Northwestern (9/11)
Scored two goals, including the game-winner, in the 3-0 victory against Syracuse (9/23)
Had assists in three-straight games against Liberty, North Carolina and Kent State
Had an assist in the ACC Championship match against North Carolina (11/4)
All-ACC Academic Team
ACC Academic Honor Roll

2021

Appeared in 15 games with six assists
Had the assist on back-to-back game-winning goals at Ohio State (9/19) and Wake Forest (9/24)
Also had an assist in the regular-season game against Maryland (10/07)
NFHCA National Academic Squad
ACC Academic Honor Roll

2020-21

Started all 18 games
Assisted on both goals in the 2-1 win over Wake Forest in the ACC Quarterfinals (11/5)
Had the assist on the game-tying goal that forced overtime against North Carolina (4/9)
NFHCA National Academic Squad

2019

All-ACC Academic Team
Led the team with eight goals
Finished her freshman campaign with 17 points
Member of a backline defense that registered seven shutouts
Named the ACC Defensive Player of the week (Oct. 15). Geusgens played pivotal role in a weekend road trip that saw the Cavaliers post a key ACC win at No. 5 Louisville and add a shutout victory at Miami (Ohio). After helping Virginia limit Louisville to just one goal and four shots on goal in Friday’s 2-1 win, Geusgens did it all for the Cavaliers in Sunday’s game at Miami. leading a backline defense that did not allow the Redhawks to take a single shot and did not yield a penalty corner. She also scored Virginia’s lone goal in the 1-0 victory on a hard strike off an offensive penalty corner
Was also named the Synapse Sports NCAA Division I National Rookie of the Week (Oct. 15)
In addition to the game-winner against Miami, also scored game-winning goals against Yale and at Syracuse
Appeared in all 23 games with 22 starts
ACC Academic Honor Roll

High School/Club Hockey

Has been playing hockey since the age of six for Hockey Club HGC in the Netherlands, including spending the past two years playing for its A1 team
In 2017-18 in the Super A league, won the outdoor championship and finished in second place at nationals
Won an outdoor championship in 2013-14 in the top league with the C2 team after winning an indoor championship the year before with the D1 team
Also plays tennis
Spent two years volunteering at Meet and Move Camp, a sports camp for refugee children aged six to 12

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