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Rachel Robinson
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Position
5'7''
Height
Graduate Student
Class
Mount Joy, Pa.
Hometown
Donegal
High School
Rachel Robinson Pronunciation
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