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Jersey Number 24
Rachel Yeager
- Year:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- Defender/Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-6
- Hometown:
- Middletown, Pa.
- High School:
- Lower Dauphin
- Major:
- Kinesiology (pre-physical therapy)
2021 as a Redshirt Senior:
2020-21 as a Senior:
2019 as a Junior:
2018 as a Sophomore:
2017 as a Freshman:
High School:
Personal:
- Honorable Mention Preseason All-CAA
- Played and started in all 19 games
- Scored a game winning goal against Temple (10/17)
- Second on the team for assists with 10
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall '21)
- Fall '21 President's List
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar Athlete (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
2020-21 as a Senior:
- Played and started all eight games
- Finished second on the team in assists with three
- Tallied one goal and three assists for five points
- Secured a goal and an assist to rack up three points in the season-opener against William & Mary (3/19)
- Recorded an assist in each of the first three games
- Fall ’20 CAA Commissioner’s Honor Roll
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll (Spring ’21)
- Dean’s List (Fall ’20)
- Dean’s List (Spring ’21)
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
2019 as a Junior:
- Preseason All-CAA
- CAA All-Second Team
- Dished out three assists in the 4-1 win over Saint Francis (10/27)
- Recorded a goal in the 3-1 win at Towson (11/1)
- Had a total of 3 goals and 5 assists throughout the season
- Played in a total of 17 games and started in 15
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
2018 as a Sophomore:
- CAA Preseason Honorable Mention
- Registered her first collegiate goal against Richmond (9/28) and followed that with a goal at #7 Penn State (9/30)
- Tallied her first multi-goal game with two goals in the win at Drexel (10/7)
- Recorded her first game-winning goal against St. Francis (10/16)
- Made the first defensive save of the season and second of her career at Northeastern (10/21)
- Recorded her third multi-goal game against Towson (10/26) where she second goal would be the game-winner
- One of just three players to start and play in all 18 games
- Led the team in goals (8)
- Third on the team in points (16)
- All-CAA First Team selection
- Fall 2018, Spring 2019 Dean's List
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
2017 as a Freshman:
- NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
- Made collegiate debut at #25 Liberty (8/26), earning the start in her first appearance
- Played 1082 minutes throughout the season over 17 starts
- Named to the 2017 All-CAA All-Rookie team
- CAA Rookie of the Week (10/24) helped anchor the Dukes’ backline in a pair of shutout wins
- Fall 2017 Dean's List
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2017, Spring 2018)
High School:
- Four-year varsity field hockey
- Mid Penn All-Star as a senior
- Pennsylvania state champion as a freshman; advanced to semifinals as a sophomore and senior, quarterfinals as a junior
- Won the District championship as a freshman and sophomore, finished third as a junior and senior
- Mid Penn champions as a sophomore
- Trained at Spooky Nook, home of the USWNT
- Three-year varsity lacrosse
- Honor roll
- National Honors Society
- Four subject National Honors Societies (science, math, Spanish, English)
Personal:
- Daughter of Kira and Jack Yeager
- Majoring in kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science and a minor in pre-physical therapy
- Father, Jack, played baseball at Penn State (89-93)
- Swam in the Junior Olympics from ages 9-14
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