Field Hockey Earns 12th Consecutive NFHCA Academic Team Award

BROCKPORT, N.Y. — The Wellesley College field hockey team has earned the National Field Hockey Coaches Association 2021 NFHCA Division III National Academic Team Award for the 12th consecutive season.

The NFHCA National Academic Team Award recognizes programs that earned a team grade-point average of 3.0 or higher during the fall semester of the current academic year. In total, 148 Division III programs earned the honor.  Wellesley earned the team honor for the 12th consecutive year and the 16th time in program history.

The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) is a nonprofit organization serving field hockey coaches and supporters of the game from across the United States. The mission of the organization is to stimulate the professional development of coaching leadership within the sport of field hockey. The NFHCA strives to cultivate and recognize the professional contributions of its membership and to foster and promote the growth of the sport. The NFHCA is responsible for providing a recognizable presence and voice in regard to legislation affecting the sport as well as interscholastic and intercollegiate programs.