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Bustin, Hampsch and McVeigh Garner Major Awards to Lead All-ACC Selections
10/30/2023 4:05:00β―PM | Field Hockey
DURHAM β The trio of sophomore Alaina McVeigh, senior Piper Hampsch and Blue Devil head coach Pam Bustin headline Duke's five selections to the 2023 All-ACC Field Hockey Teams, as announced by the league office Monday afternoon.
McVeigh is the Co-Offensive Player of the Year, sharing the award with Boston College's Margo Carlin, while Hampsch picked up the inaugural ACC Goalkeeper of the Year Award. Bustin was voted by her peers as the 2023 ACC Coach of the Year. Joining McVeigh and Hampsch on the All-ACC first team is graduate student forward Hannah Miller. Junior Kira Curland and graduate student Mary Harkins captured All-ACC second team recognition β their first career ACC awards.
Bustin, in her 13th season at Duke, collects her third ACC Coach of the Year honor, after leading the Blue Devils to a 14-3 regular season record and a share of the ACC regular season title. Duke finished ACC play 5-1 overall, marking just the third time the Blue Devils have won five league matches.
Picked to finish last in the ACC preseason poll and tabbed 20th in the NFHCA preseason rankings, Duke put together a historic 11-game win streak en route to climbing to No. 2 in the nation. The Blue Devils defeated six top-15 opponents in that span and own seven top-15 wins this season overall. Bustin sports a 320-227 career record and a 158-99 mark at Duke. She is five wins shy of breaking the Duke record for victories held by Jacki Silar.
Seeing the field for the first time in her Duke career, McVeigh burst onto the collegiate field hockey scene in leading the Blue Devils with 16 goals and two assists for 34 points. Her 16 goals lead the ACC and are tied for 21st in Duke single-season history. She has at least one goal in 13 of the 17 games and registered multiple tallies three times, including the win over Syracuse. McVeigh garnered ACC Offensive Player of the Week recognition following her three-goal and one assist weekend, which included the overtime winner against No. 9 Liberty.
The native of Landsdale, Pa., is the second Blue Devil to garner ACC Offensive Player of the Year recognition since the award started in 2004. Two-time All-American Katie Grant was Duke's first honoree in 2005.
Duke's anchor to an experienced backline, Hampsch has turned in the best season of her career. She leads the ACC with a .766 save percentage and is second with a 1.01 goals against average. In six ACC contests, Hampsch and the Blue Devils allowed just five goals, tying for the fewest in ACC play in Duke history. The Hopedale, Mass., native has a career-best five shutouts this season, while her 1.01 goals against average in 2023 is fourth in Duke program history.
A starter from day one for the Blue Devils, Hampsch has amassed 266 career saves to rank seventh in Duke history and is only five away from taking over sole possession of the No. 5 spot. For her career, she has a 1.98 goals against average and a .680 save percentage.
Miller earns her second consecutive All-ACC first team award. The engine to Duke's offense, the Malvern, Pa., native leads the ACC with nine assists and is 10th in points with 21. Against Longwood, Miller registered a career-high five goals and an assist for a career-best 11 points. She became just the second different Blue Devil to have double digit points in a game with Melissa Panasci having 14 and 10 during the 1995 season.
A starter in all 89 games of her career, Miller set the Duke record for starts this season and is on pace to become just the second player in program history to play in 90 career games. She has 31 goals and 28 assists for 90 points to rank 11th in assists, 15th in points and 17th in goals.
Curland, in her second season as a Blue Devil, is Duke's creator from the center of the field. Stellar on both offensive and defensive penalty corners, Curland has five goals and two assists for the Blue Devils this season. Her 12 points in 2023 are nine more than she had in her first campaign in Durham in 2022. A native of Sickte, Germany, Curland has started all 17 games this season and has 13 goals and nine assists for 35 points in her collegiate career.
Playing every minute this season for the Blue Devils, Harkins is the steadying force of the Duke backline and a key member of Duke's offensive penalty corners. With the Kimberton, Pa., native leading the charge, the Blue Devils have allowed just 18 goals in 17 games for a 1.01 goals against average. The defensive effort is one of the best in program history as only three teams have allowed fewer than 20 goals in a season since 1983. Duke's lowest goals against average in the past 10 years is 1.13 in 2019.
For her career, Harkins has played in 85 games with 37 starting assignments. She has four assists this season and a goal and nine assists for 11 points in her career.
The second-seeded Blue Devils open ACC Tournament action Oct. 31 against No. 7 seed Wake Forest. First hit is set for 3:30 p.m., on ACC Network. The winner advances to the semifinal on Nov. 1 at 3:30 p.m.
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McVeigh is the Co-Offensive Player of the Year, sharing the award with Boston College's Margo Carlin, while Hampsch picked up the inaugural ACC Goalkeeper of the Year Award. Bustin was voted by her peers as the 2023 ACC Coach of the Year. Joining McVeigh and Hampsch on the All-ACC first team is graduate student forward Hannah Miller. Junior Kira Curland and graduate student Mary Harkins captured All-ACC second team recognition β their first career ACC awards.
Bustin, in her 13th season at Duke, collects her third ACC Coach of the Year honor, after leading the Blue Devils to a 14-3 regular season record and a share of the ACC regular season title. Duke finished ACC play 5-1 overall, marking just the third time the Blue Devils have won five league matches.
Picked to finish last in the ACC preseason poll and tabbed 20th in the NFHCA preseason rankings, Duke put together a historic 11-game win streak en route to climbing to No. 2 in the nation. The Blue Devils defeated six top-15 opponents in that span and own seven top-15 wins this season overall. Bustin sports a 320-227 career record and a 158-99 mark at Duke. She is five wins shy of breaking the Duke record for victories held by Jacki Silar.
Seeing the field for the first time in her Duke career, McVeigh burst onto the collegiate field hockey scene in leading the Blue Devils with 16 goals and two assists for 34 points. Her 16 goals lead the ACC and are tied for 21st in Duke single-season history. She has at least one goal in 13 of the 17 games and registered multiple tallies three times, including the win over Syracuse. McVeigh garnered ACC Offensive Player of the Week recognition following her three-goal and one assist weekend, which included the overtime winner against No. 9 Liberty.
The native of Landsdale, Pa., is the second Blue Devil to garner ACC Offensive Player of the Year recognition since the award started in 2004. Two-time All-American Katie Grant was Duke's first honoree in 2005.
Duke's anchor to an experienced backline, Hampsch has turned in the best season of her career. She leads the ACC with a .766 save percentage and is second with a 1.01 goals against average. In six ACC contests, Hampsch and the Blue Devils allowed just five goals, tying for the fewest in ACC play in Duke history. The Hopedale, Mass., native has a career-best five shutouts this season, while her 1.01 goals against average in 2023 is fourth in Duke program history.
A starter from day one for the Blue Devils, Hampsch has amassed 266 career saves to rank seventh in Duke history and is only five away from taking over sole possession of the No. 5 spot. For her career, she has a 1.98 goals against average and a .680 save percentage.
Miller earns her second consecutive All-ACC first team award. The engine to Duke's offense, the Malvern, Pa., native leads the ACC with nine assists and is 10th in points with 21. Against Longwood, Miller registered a career-high five goals and an assist for a career-best 11 points. She became just the second different Blue Devil to have double digit points in a game with Melissa Panasci having 14 and 10 during the 1995 season.
A starter in all 89 games of her career, Miller set the Duke record for starts this season and is on pace to become just the second player in program history to play in 90 career games. She has 31 goals and 28 assists for 90 points to rank 11th in assists, 15th in points and 17th in goals.
Curland, in her second season as a Blue Devil, is Duke's creator from the center of the field. Stellar on both offensive and defensive penalty corners, Curland has five goals and two assists for the Blue Devils this season. Her 12 points in 2023 are nine more than she had in her first campaign in Durham in 2022. A native of Sickte, Germany, Curland has started all 17 games this season and has 13 goals and nine assists for 35 points in her collegiate career.
Playing every minute this season for the Blue Devils, Harkins is the steadying force of the Duke backline and a key member of Duke's offensive penalty corners. With the Kimberton, Pa., native leading the charge, the Blue Devils have allowed just 18 goals in 17 games for a 1.01 goals against average. The defensive effort is one of the best in program history as only three teams have allowed fewer than 20 goals in a season since 1983. Duke's lowest goals against average in the past 10 years is 1.13 in 2019.
For her career, Harkins has played in 85 games with 37 starting assignments. She has four assists this season and a goal and nine assists for 11 points in her career.
The second-seeded Blue Devils open ACC Tournament action Oct. 31 against No. 7 seed Wake Forest. First hit is set for 3:30 p.m., on ACC Network. The winner advances to the semifinal on Nov. 1 at 3:30 p.m.
For more information on Duke field hockey, follow the Blue Devils onΒ Twitter,Β FacebookΒ andΒ InstagramΒ by searching for "DukeFH". #GoDukeΒ
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