Northwestern field hockey head coach Tracey Fuchs typically doesn’t like to make bold predictions too early in the season, but this year was different.
At the beginning of the 2021 NCAA field hockey season, she told people within her program and a few media members that she saw Final Four potential in her team. Three months later, her prediction came true.
“This is the best NCAA field hockey [team] in my lifetime,” Fuchs said on Wednesday morning. “We’re just solid everywhere. We’ve got great goaltending, our defense is solid, and then you have people like Bente [Baekers], Maddie Zimmer and Lauren Wadas who can light it up.