2022 Field Hockey Roster
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Jersey Number 22
Riley Donnelly
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Position:
- D
- Major:
- Engineering: Bioengineering
- Hometown:
- Doylestown, PA
- High School:
- Central Bucks East
- NFHCA All-American (Second Team - 2020)
- All Big Ten First Team (2020)
- Big Ten All-Tournament Team (2022)
- Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (3/8/21)
- Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (3/22/21)
- NFHCA Division I Senior Game (2021)
- All-Big Ten Academic Team (2019, 2020)
- NFHCA National Academic Squad (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
- Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2022)
- Won bronze with US Under-22 team at JPAC (2021)
As a graduate student (2022):
- Big Ten All-Tournament Team (2022)
- Played in 20 games, making 13 starts
- Totaled 23 points on nine goals and five assists
- Scored game-winning penalty stroke in a 2-1 double overtime victory vs. Liberty (11/11) in the NCAA First Round
- Scored first career hat-trick with 3 goals in a 11-0 win over Georgetown (10/11)
- Started in 21 of 22 games
- Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
- Missed first game of the year due to playing with the US U22 squad in the Junior Pan American Games
- Scored the Terps' first goal that tied the match at 1-1 vs. #7 Boston College (9/3)
- Scored Terps' only goal in 1-0 win #21 UMass (9/10)
- Tallied Terps' line goal in victory over #1 Iowa (10/3)
- Assisted on eventual game-winner in NCAA First Round win over #13 Virginia (11/12)
- Started in all 15 games
- NFHCA Second Team All-American
- NFHCA All-Mid Atlantic Region First Team
- All-Big Ten First Team
- Academic All-Big Ten and NFHCA National Academic Squad honors
- Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (3/8)
- Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (3/22)
- Scored three goals in weekend series with Indiana (3/19, 3/21)
- Scored game-winning goal in 4-2 win over #6 Rutgers (4/15)
- Started in all 21 games
- Scored goal in the season opener versus Richmond (8/30)
- Notched an assist in the 2-0 win over #3 UConn (10/6)
- Big Ten regular season champion
- All-Big Ten Academic honors.
- Started in all 25 games
- Notched first career assist in 9-1 win over #23 Ohio State in Big Ten Semifinals (11/2)
- Big Ten regular season and tournament champion
- Advanced to NCAA Championship game
- NFHCA National Academic Squad.
- Four-year letterwinner in field hockey
- NFHCA High School All-America First Team and Max Field Hockey First Team All-American honors in 2017
- Named to NFHCA All-Region Team, Max Field Hockey All PA/NJ Region team in 2016 and 2017
- First Team All-Area and First Team All-Suburban One in all four years of her career
- Team's leading scorer every season
- Team MVP as sophomore, junior, senior
- Helped team to SOL championship in 2016 and 2017
- Served as team captain in junior and senior seasons
- Reached 100-goal mark in both field hockey and lacrosse
- Earned Philadelphia Field Hockey Offensive Player of the Week honor
- Played for WC Eagles club and won the National Club Championship in 2018
- Named to 2017 STX Select Game
- Selected for Junior Olympics in 2015 and 2016
- Alternate for PanAm Games in 2017 and South Africa tour in 2016
- NFHCA National Academic Squad and a Scholar of Distinction in 2016 and 2017
- Awarded Outstanding Female Athlete of her high school.
- Parents are John and Mindy Donnelly
- Has two younger siblings, Emma and Jack
- Dad played football at New Hampshire
- Mom played field hockey at Lehigh
- Came to Maryland because “there is tons of pride and school spirit, which makes the school so welcoming. Maryland also has a great reputation as an institution, especially in engineering, as well as a field hockey program under Missy Meharg”
- Lists former Olympian Lauren Crandall as her sports heroine
- Majoring in Bioengineering
Maryland Field Hockey Highlights | Northeastern
Sunday, November 02
Maryland Field Hockey | Belief, Grit, Tradition
Wednesday, October 15
Maryland Field Hockey Highlights | Michigan
Friday, September 26
Maryland Field Hockey Highlights | Penn State
Monday, September 22








































