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2022 Field Hockey Roster

Zach Bland/Maryland Terrapins
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22 Riley Donnelly

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position D
  • Major Engineering: Bioengineering
  • Hometown Doylestown, PA
  • High School Central Bucks East
  • Instagram riley_donnelly22
  • Opendorse riley-donnelly

Biography

  • 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)
As a senior (2021):
  • 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)
As a junior (2020):
  • 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)
As a sophomore (2019):
  • 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.
As a freshman (2018):
  • 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.
Before Maryland:
  • 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.
Personal:
  • 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

Statistics

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2022

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Historical Player Information

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    2018Freshman

    Forward/Midfield
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    2019Sophomore

    Defense
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    2020-21Junior

    Defense
    5'9"
    22
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    2021Senior

    Defense
    5'9"
    22
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    2022Graduate Student

    Defense
    5'9"
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