Teams: Field Hockey: Press Releases

Friday, October 30, 2009

RUSSO, SCHOLTES SELECTED FOR NFHCA SENIOR ALL-STAR GAME

Margi Scholtes

Amanda Russo

MEDFORD -- Co-captains Amanda Russo (Garden City, NY) and Margi Scholtes (Grosse Pointe, MI) of the 2009 Tufts University Field Hockey team have been selected to play in this year's National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division III Senior All-Star Game. This year's game is scheduled to be played on Sunday, November 22 at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA). Game time is 9:30 am.

Thirty-eight players overall were announced as 2009 NFHCA Division III Senior All-Stars. Russo and Scholtes are two of just three New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) players named to play in the game.

Russo is currently second on the Tufts team and fourth in the NESCAC with 26 points on 11 goals and four assists. Scholtes, an NFHCA First Team All-American and the conference's Defensive Player of the Year last season, has four goals with one assist for nine points in addition to her continued defensive presence this fall.

Coach Tina McDavitt's Jumbos are 12-1 overall entering their final game of the regular-season today at Bowdoin.

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