With the team’s largest roster size ever, a strong core of returning players and a talented group of seven freshmen, the App State field hockey team is set to build off of their up-and-down year a season ago.
Although they finished 7-14 overall and 1-5 in Mid-American Conference play, the Mountaineers showed flashes of brilliance throughout the season before catching fire in the MAC tournament.
“We peaked at the right time,” head coach Meghan Dawson said. “But I’d rather peak and maintain and keep growing.”
App State entered the MAC tournament seeded sixth and beat seventh-seeded Central Michigan 5-2 in the first round.