Congratulations toMeg Shelburne ’20 for earning the NCAA Elite 90 Award and a third NCAA Field Hockey Championship with the Middlebury Panthers. She scored a 4.0 GPA, the highest cumulative grade-point average for a player participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s 90 championships, and she is the first Middlebury Field Hockey player to receive this award. Shelburne’s defensive play helped Middlebury prevail over Johns Hopkins in the D3 finals for the third consecutive season. In her freshman year, the 2020 season was canceled due to Covid. Read more on Shelburne’s journey starting at St. John’s.
Goalkeeper Kelsey Bing ‘16 helped USA Field Hockey defeat Chile in a semi-final shootout at the Pan Am Games on November 2. Team USA then advanced to the finals against Argentina three days later. Argentina broke a 1-1 tie in the fourth quarter to win gold. Team USA still qualified for the FIH Olympic Qualifier event.
The Mavericks traveled to Fort Worth to compete in the 2023 Fall SPC 4A Championships on November 2-4. Field Hockey was unscored on and took out Kinkaid in the finals. Boys Cross Country finished 2 points out of first place for a runner-up finish. Girls Cross Country finished fourth, Girls Volleyball was third and Boys' Volleyball finished seventh.
Friday: Boys Volleyball 3-2 loss vs Greenhill; Field Hockey 2-0 win vs EHS; Girls Volleyball 3-0 loss vs Hockaday @FWCD
Saturday: Cross Country 4A Girls 4th place; 4A Boys Runners Up; Boys Volleyball-3-2 loss vs Casady for 7th place; Girls Volleyball 3-2 win vs St. Stephen's for 3rd place; Field Hockey 2-0 win vs Kinkaid for the SPC Championship!
Congratulations to JV Field Hockey for winning the 2023 City Championship. The Mavericks shut out all of their opponents for the title, while scoring a total of 15 goals.