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Jans Croon
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Position
5'6''
Height
Junior
Class
San Diego, Calif.
Hometown
Torrey Pines
High School
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Audio Player2024 ACC Defensive Player of the Year
2024 NFHCA Third-Team All-American
2024 All-ACC First Team
2024 ACC Field Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year
2024 NFHCA All-Region First Team
2024
- ACC Defensive Player of the Year, the first player in program history to earn the honor
- NFHCA All-America Third Team
- All-ACC First Team, her first time being named to an all-conference team
- NFHCA All-South Region First Team
- Co-ACC Field Hockey Scholar Athlete of the Year, the second Cavalier to earn the honor since 2007
- Tied for third on the team in point with 12, scoring four goals (two game-winners) with four assists
- Appeared in 80 games in her four-year career, starting all 80, with eight goals and 13 assists (29 points)
- 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)
- Assisted on the game-winning goal against Michigan in the NCAA Championship first round (11/15)
- NFHCA NCAA Division I Watchlist
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- All-ACC Academic Team
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