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LOCK HAVEN, Pa. - The Slippery Rock University field hockey team was picked to finish 10th in the 2026 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference preseason coaches' poll, the league office announced Tuesday.
Annually the toughest field hockey conference in Division II, 31 of the previous 36 national champions have come from the PSAC.
Three teams garnered first-place votes in this year's preseason poll with 2025 national semifinalist Kutztown being tabbed first with seven top votes. Shippensburg, last year's national champions, took second place with two first-place votes with West Chester earning the remaining first-place vote in third place.
The remainder of the preseason prognostication saw East Stroudsburg in fourth place followed by Bloomsburg, Millersville, Mansfield, Indiana (Pa.), Frostburg State and The Rock.
The top six teams in the conference standings at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the PSAC Tournament.
Led by second-year head coach
Missy Revesz – a nine-year veteran of the program – and assistant coach
Alex Pennington, Slippery Rock returns 16 athletes from last year's team that finished 5-12. Of the 16 returners, 11 appeared in at least 13 games and eight started eight or more contests.
In a contrast from the 2025 preseason, Slippery Rock does return most of its offensive production from last year as only one of its seven goal scorers from 2025 is gone. Joining the 16 returners are eight newcomers to make up a 2026 roster that has immense potential.
FIFTH YEAR ATHLETES
The only transfer in this year's recruiting class is former Division I goalkeeper
Sam Black, who will be one of three goalies on this year's roster after coming to The Rock by way of Wagner College. Black played in nine games during her time with the Seahawks, making 44 saves (.647). Last season, the Fredericksburg, Virginia native made three appearances for Wagner while carrying a 1.76 Goals Against Average.
SENIORS
One of two active Rock athletes to have earned all-conference honors previously, forward / midfielder
Lucy Hutchinson garnered All-PSAC recognition a season ago by scoring a team-high five goals over her 13 games played, including a career-best nine starts. Three of Hutchinson's five goals in 2025 were of the game-winning variety.
No other active Rock athlete has played more collegiate games than forward / midfielder
Hilary Hoffman, who enters her senior year having started 39 of her 41 career games played. A 2024 All-PSAC choice, Hoffman has recorded 24 career points on eight goals and eight assists over her first three seasons with 45 shots on goal. Despite being limited to nine games a season ago, Hoffman still recorded six points via two goals and two assists.
Midfielder
Haylie Sucharski enters her senior season coming off her best year to date at Slippery Rock that saw Sucharski appear in all 17 games while making eight starts and making four defensive saves. Sucharski ended 2025 tied for first in the PSAC, and ranked 11th in the nation, in defensive saves.
Leah Riegling started 11 games as The Rock's primary goalkeeper in 2025. After appearing in just one game in her first two years on campus, Riegling served as SRU's goalie of record for three of its five wins a season ago on the way to making 63 saves (.700) and carrying a 2.57 GAA. She ended the year ranked third in the PSAC in saves per game (5.25).
After beginning her collegiate career for two seasons at Division I Central Michigan University, midfielder / back
Brooke Page joined the Slippery Rock program late in the 2025 offseason and went on to become a fixture in The Rock's lineup with 11 appearances (four starts / seven outings as a reserve).
Midfielder
Paige Shannon is behind only Hoffman in terms of on field collegiate experience on the 2026 SRU field hockey roster. Shannon comes into her fourth year inside the program a veteran of 39 games played after playing in 16 of 17 games last season.
JUNIORS
The junior midfielder / back duo of
Riley Cloude and
Roz Mikulak have been starters for the near entirety of their Slippery Rock careers as Cloude has started 32 games and Mikulak 31 of a possible 33 games in 2024 and 2025.
In 2025, Mikulak led SRU with four assists and 16 shots on goal while Cloude was one of three Rock athletes to start all 17 games to go with one goal and one assist.
Forward / midfielder
Coral Piramo did not appear in a game as a freshman in 2024, but was a constant on the field for SRU as a sophomore in 2025. The Huntington Beach, California native appeared in all 17 games with 14 starts in addition to finishing fourth on the team in points with five via two goals and one assist. Piramo, who placed nine of her 13 shots in 2025 on target, scored the game-winning goal in SRU's victory over Frostburg State.
Forward / midfielder
Grace Williams has scored goals in each of her first two collegiate seasons. Following a one-goal rookie season in 2024, Williams finished tied for second on The Rock in 2025 with six points on two goals and two assists while also being one of three SRU athletes to post double-digit shots on goal (11).
2025 marked the first season at Slippery Rock for back / midfielder
Ava Masorti, who transferred into the program after spending her 2024 campaign at Converse University. Masorti made an instant impact in her inaugural year at Slippery Rock, starting 12 of 17 games played.
Rounding out The Rock's junior class is back
Payton Kane, who has played in three games over her first two years at SRU.
SOPHOMORES
Four members of The Rock's 2025 rookie class return for their second collegiate seasons in forward
Amaly Klock, back
Avery McCann, forward
Maddie Orrson and midfielder
Hanna Thomas.
Orrson and Thomas both appeared in all 17 games a year ago while McCann saw action in 16 games with Orrson scoring two goals and placing five of her seven shots on target. All three gained starting experience as well in their first seasons (18 combined starts).
Klock will compete for an expanded role after playing in two games and recording one shot on goal during her first collegiate season.
FIRST YEAR ATHLETES
The vast majority of The Rock's 2026 recruting class is made up of seven first-year athletes spanning the entire field and covering two states and three countries.
2026 SRU Rookie Class
Name: Position-Hometown (in Pennsylvania unless noted)
Tatiana Calderon: Midfield-Vancouver, British Columbia
Rylee Catterton: Goalie-Lothian, Maryland
Delaney Evans: Midfield/Back-Perry Hall, Maryland
Meghan O'Donnell: Midfield-Audubon
Keila Schutte-Hanekom: Midfield-Krugersdorp, South Africa
Josie Shultz: Midfield-Whitehall
Tori Snyder: Midfield/Back-Dillsburg
THE SCHEDULE
Slippery Rock is scheduled to play an 18-game schedule consisting of nine non-conference games in addition to its nine-game PSAC gauntlet.
Of The Rock's 15 unique opponents in 2026, eight carried winning records a year ago with two others finishing just one game under .500.
SRU opens its 2026 season with four consecutive non-conference home games at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium versus Frostburg State (Sept. 3), Coker (Sept. 11), Lander (Sept. 12) and Converse (Sept. 18).
The bulk of The Rock's non-conference slate continues on the road at Roberts Wesleyan (Sept. 22) and with the rare back-to-back at Maryville (Sept. 26-27). SRU's remaining two non-conference games – Oct. 14 versus D'Youville and Nov. 4 at IUP – are sprinkled in during conference play.
Slippery Rock's PSAC schedule sees matchups against Millersville (Oct. 3-A), Shippensburg (Oct. 7-A), Kutztown (Oct. 10-H), East Stroudsburg (Oct. 17-H), Frostburg State (Oct. 21-A), Bloomsburg (Oct. 24-A), IUP (Oct. 28-H), West Chester (Oct. 31-A) and Mansfield (Nov. 7-H).
2026 PSAC PRESEASON COACHES' POLL
First-place votes in parentheses
1. Kutztown (7)
2. Shippensburg (2)
3. West Chester (1)
4. East Stroudsburg
5. Bloomsburg
6. Millersville
7. Mansfield
8. IUP
9. Frostburg State
10. Slippery Rock
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