Field Hockey to Add Seven Students in 2016
12/10/2015 11:46:00 AM | Field Hockey
Head Coach Kathleen Wiler and staff have announced the addition of seven field hockey students for the 2016 season.
Recently signing their National Letters of Intent are Kiersten Cline (Hustontown, Pa.), Kortney Keller (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Alex Luxardo (Bloomsburg, Pa.), Madison Pope (Schnecksville, Pa.), Melanie Scibilia (Allentown, N.J.), Karri Stadulis (Powell, Ohio) and Hannah Weidman (Lititz, Pa.).
Cline is a forward/midfielder out of Forbes Road High School. As a four-year letterwinner, she racked up 58 goals and 75 assists as her team was one of the final eight teams at the state tournament every season. She was named Player of the Year and All-State Honorable Mention as a sophomore and a First Team All-Star as a senior after missing her junior year due to illness.
Keller will join her sister Katelyn in becoming a Golden Flashes. The forward out of Elizabethtown Area High School had nine goals and nine assists her senior year en route to being named a Second Team All-Star, Academic All-Star and the All-Star Game Most Valuable Forward.
Another Pennsylvania native, Luxardo lettered four years at Bloomsburg Area High School as a midfielder. She finished her career with 15 goals and 16 assists and was a First Team All-League and National Honor Society member as a senior. Her team qualified for states in her final two years after finishing second in the division both those seasons.
Pope played midfied/defense for four years at Parkland High School, tallying 7 goals and 8 assists in her career. The team boasted 11-win seasons in 2015 and 2014 and a 13-win year in 2013. Pope was on the High Honor Roll and was captain of the team as a senior.
Coming out of Allentown High School in New Jersey, Scibilia ended her four-year career with 16 goals and 20 assists. She helped her team to a 2015 Mercer County Championship after a 16-1-3 season. As team captain her senior year, Scibilia also was awarded First Team All-Conference and Tournament MVP honors.
Stadulis comes from a long-line of Golden Flashes, as the Powell, Ohio product's mother and aunt were both Kent State gymnasts. Her father, two uncles, another aunt and her paternal grandparents all have degrees from KSU and other ties to the University. The defender holds her high school records for goals in a single season (27) and career goals (67) while ranking second in both points in a season (61) and career points (157). Stadulis helped lead Olentangy Liberty High School to four-straight state elite eight appearances while being named First Team All-Ohio as a senior and most recently was named a NFHCA All-Region honoree.
The final 2016 signee lettered three years at Warwick High School as a defender/midfielder. Weidman's team made the state quarterfinals in 2013. She was named team captain as a senior while also being named an Academic All-Star and a member of the National Honor Society. Weidman was also made Distinguished Honor Roll all four years of her career.
The seven newcomers will help replace three departing seniors next fall and help the team continue its dominance in the Mid-American Conference as back-to-back regular season and tournament champions. The class is also sure to keep the program a perennial NFHCA Division I National Academic Team.
