Jans Croon

2024 ACC Defensive Player of the Year
2024 All-ACC First Team

2024

• ACC Defensive Player of the Year, the first player in program history to earn the honor
• All-ACC First Team, her first time being named to an all-conference team
• Scored the game-winning goal at Liberty (9/8)
• Had four points during Cal/Stanford weekend, scoring the game-winning goal against the Cardinal and also logging an assist in both games (9/22)
• NFHCA NCAA Division I Watchlist

2023 – NCAA Semifinals

• ACC All-Tournament Team
• Started all 21 games, scoring three goals with five assists for 11 points
• Part of a defensive backline that did not allow Temple to take a shot in the road win (9/3)
• Assisted on the game-winning goal against Harvard (9/10)
• Assisted on the game-winning goal in the double-overtime win at Syracuse (9/22)
• Assisted on Virginia’s fifth goal at Wake Forest (10/13)
• Assisted on Virginia’s second goal against North Carolina (10/20)
• Assisted on UVA’s second goal in the ACC Quarterfinal victory against Syracuse (10/31)
• Scored her first and second goal of the season in the ACC Semifinal game against UNC (11/1)
• Scored her third goal in the NCAA First Round game against Saint Joseph’s (11/10)
• All-ACC Academic Team
• Named to the 2023-24 ACC Honor Roll
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• Voted the Teammate of the Year at the Hoos Choice Awards

INTERNATIONAL

• Named to the first roster of the US Women’s National Team for Hockey5s
• Won gold with the USWNT Hockey5s 2023 Pan American Cup games in Kingston, Jamaica
• Won silver at the 2024 Junior Pan American Championship in British Columbia, helping the US U21 team qualify for the 2025 Junior World Cup (7/13/24)
• Member of the US U21 Team competing at the FIH Hockey Women’s Junior World Cup in Santiago, Chile (12/11/23)
• Won gold with the US U21 Junior National Team at the 2023 Junior Pan American Championship in Barbados, helping the team qualify for the Junior World Championships (4/18)
• Member of the US-U21 team that won bronze at the 2022 Uniphar 5-Nations tournament in Dublin, Ireland (6/27)

2022

• Appeared in 19 games, starting all of the games in which she appeared
• Scored a goal with three assists
• Scored her first career goal in the season-opener at Penn State (8/26)
• Assisted on two goals at Delaware (8/28)
• Had an assist against Saint Joseph’s, giving her five points in the first five games of the season
• Had a key defensive save in the ACC Semifinal win against Wake Forest (11/4)
• Earned an invitation to participate in the USA Field Hockey U-21 Selection Camp in December based on her summer performance (7/28)
• Added to the US U21  Women’s National Team roster (3/9)
• All-ACC Academic Team
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2021

• Synapse Sports National All-Rookie Team
• Started all 21 games, one of just three players on the team to do so
• Was in the starting lineup for her first collegiate game against Penn State, the only freshman in the starting lineup (8/27)
• Had an assist in the Wake Forest game for her first collegiate point (9/24)
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

Background

• Named 2020 MAX Field Hockey West/Mid-West Region Players to Watch
• Member of the 2020 and 2021 US RISE Junior National Team
• Lived in Haarlem, the Netherlands until age 13, playing field hockey at MHC Alliance
• Was a competitive speed skater until moving to the United States
• Played beach volleyball while living in Manhattan Beach, California, before moving to San Diego
• Attended Mira Costa High School freshman through junior year, which did not sponsor field hockey, before transferring to Torrey Pines High as a senior

Personal

• Daughter of Barbara van Leeuwen and Thijs Croon
• Global Studies major