NFHCA Division II Watchlist
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Slippery Rock University field hockey program had two athletes named to the 2026 National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division II watchlist, the organization announced Thursday.
 
The 2026 NFHCA Watchlist recognizes field hockey student-athletes who have demonstrated a high level of achievement and are considered among those with strong potential for NFHCA All-Region and All-America consideration this season.
 
Senior forward Lucy Hutchinson and senior midfielder Hilary Hoffman represented Slippery Rock on the list of 42 athletes across NCAA Division II field hockey. Slippery Rock was one of 11 programs in Division II to have multiple athletes named to the watchlist.
 
Hutchinson and Hoffman are both former All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference honorees with Hutchinson earning the accolade in 2025 and Hoffman in 2024.
 
No other active Rock athlete has played more collegiate games than Hoffman, who enters her senior year having started 39 of her 41 career games played. The 2024 all-conference performer 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.
 
A native of Norwich, England, Hutchinson garnered her first All-PSAC recognition a season ago by scoring a team-high five goals over 13 games played, including a career-best nine starts. Three of Hutchinson's five goals in 2025 were of the game-winning variety.
 
Slippery Rock opens its 2026 season 1 p.m. Sept. 3 against Frostburg State University in what is the first of four consecutive games to open the year at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.




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