The William & Mary field hockey team will try and continue its run through the NCAA Tournament this weekend, competing at the Chapel Hill Regional against the best teams in the country.  On Friday, Nov. 9, the Tribe will take on top-seeded and undefeated North Carolina at 12 p.m. in the NCAA First Round, for the right to advance to Sunday's second round against either No. 8 Michigan or No. 10 Saint Joseph's.  Every game will be streamed live on Facebook, and can also be followed via live stats on NCAA.com.

Scouting the Tribe
William & Mary is winners of four in a row to improve to 12-7 on the year, defeating Monmouth 3-2 in overtime on Wednesday in the NCAA Opening Round.  Both redshirt-senior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) and junior Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) scored to remain tied atop the team statistics with 13 goals apiece, with Hooper providing the game-winner in overtime to also stand tied with Hughes with four game-winning goals each.  Junior Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) picked up both a goal (her fourth) and her school-record 12th assist of the year to reach 20 points, and her classmate, captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.), earned her ninth assist of the season to go with eight goals (25 points).  Freshman Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.) provided the helper on Hooper's winning goal, and is tied with Hughes for third on the team with six assists.  On defense, freshman goalkeeper Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) has a 1.77 GAA and .704 save percentage, making 57 saves to stand at 10-3 on the year.

Scouting the Tar Heels
North Carolina is ranked No. 1 in the country, and earned the top seed in the NCAA Tournament by going undefeated at 19-0.  The Tar Heels haven't given up more than two goals in any game (that happened twice), and have eight shutouts overall while out-scoring opponents 88-13.  Freshman Erin Matson leads the team in points (46, 10th in the NCAA), goals (16, 14th in the NCAA), and assists (14, fifth in the NCAA), while Catherine Hayden has 15 goals (including seven game-winners) and Ashley Hoffman 12 goals and seven assists.  On defense, Cassie Sumfest has three defensive saves, and in goal, Amanda Hendry has the majority of minutes with a 0.86 GAA and .778 save percentage while making 35 stops.

Scouting the Wolverines
Michigan is 13-6 overall, and ranked No. 8 in the latest NFHCA National Polls.  The Wolverines are led by Big Ten Player of the Year Emma Way, who has 18 goals and three assists, including five game-winning goals.  Meg Dowthwaite has 22 points on nine goals and four assists.  On defense, Anna Spieker has the vast majority of minutes in goal, with a 1.86 GAA and 63 saves on a .741 save percentage.

Scouting the Hawks
Saint Joseph's won the Atlantic 10 title last week, and is ranked No. 10 nationally after winning 14 games in a row and going 18-2 overall.  Tonya Botherway is the team's leading scorer with 21 goals and 10 assists, and she and Anna Willocks (18g, 7a) each have six game-winning goals.  On defense, the Hawks are led by Victoria Kammerinke who has played every minute in goal with a 0.95 GAA and 60 saves on a .759 percentage.

The Series
- W&M is 3-24-2 all-time against North Carolina, dating back to the 1978 season.  The Tribe won the first three meetings and had ties in 1981 and 1983, but the Tar Heels have won the last 23 matches since 1984.  The last time the two teams met was in 2010 in Chapel Hill, a 5-0 UNC win when they were also ranked No. 1 in the country.

- The Tribe and Michigan have met seven times before, with the Wolverines holding a 5-2 advantage.  W&M won the last meeting, however, a 1-0 upset of the then-No. 7 ranked Michigan team in Ann Arbor, Mich. last year on a first-half goal by Woodard Hooper.  The Wolverines didn't lose again until the NCAA semifinals, winning 18 in a row.

- W&M and Saint Joseph's have only met three times before, with the Hawks holding a 2-1 advantage.  The Tribe won the first meeting 3-1 back in 1992, before Saint Joseph's won in 2008 (3-2 in overtime in Williamsburg) and in 2015 (4-3 in Pennsylvania).

News and Notes
- The Tribe is 9-9 all-time in the national post-season, and 1-2 in the NCAA Tournament after defeating Monmouth on Wednesday.

- W&M played in its NCAA-leading ninth overtime game of the season, and also leads the country with overtime wins at six.  Both marks are also program records.

- The Tribe is 3-0 in elimination games this season, defeating Northeastern in the CAA Semifinals 2-0, No. 14 Delaware in the CAA Championship game 3-2 (OT), and Monmouth in the NCAA Opening Round, 3-2 (OT).

- Wednesday's opening round win over Monmouth lifted W&M to several new program records or near-records.  Included in that was tying the program record for assists in a season with 44, matching the 2012 seasons.  W&M's 54 goals on the year is fifth all-time, and the 152 total points is second-most in program history behind only the 1979 team that scored 161 points in 22 games.

- W&M's 8.0 point per game average is the best in school history by more than half a point per game.  The current record is 7.45 points per game, set in 2000 (149 points in 20 games).

- W&M is 1-15 all-time against the No. 1-ranked team in the country.  The Tribe beat Saint Louis 1-0 in the 1979 AIAW National Tournament, before facing Old Dominion 10 times and North Carolina five times as those teams stood atop the field hockey ranks.

- If W&M and Michigan were to play on Sunday, the Tribe is 4-7 all-time against No. 8, winning four straight from 2001-04.  The last three meetings, all against CAA-foes, have gone against the Green and Gold.

- If it were Saint Joseph's and the Tribe on Sunday, then W&M is 1-7-1 against the country's No. 10-ranked team.  The same day in 1979 that W&M beat No. 1 Saint Louis, the Tribe also beat No. 10 Springfield 4-0.  1991 was the next match-up, a 0-0 tie with Virginia, while a 3-0 loss to Boston College last year was the last meeting.

- W&M has been to overtime in every NCAA Tournament game it has ever played.  In 2000, the Tribe lost to No. 5 Michigan in double overtime, and in 2002, lost to No. 5 Maryland in the first overtime.

- Wednesday was the first post-conference field hockey game in Williamsburg since the 1979 AIAW Region II Championships.  W&M hosted the regional tournament in 1977 and 1979, going 5-1 in those two tournaments and winning the title in 1979.  The Tribe has also hosted the Virginia State Championships in 1983, and conference tournaments in 1987, 1993, 1998, and 2004.

- W&M made the national field at the AIAW/USFHA National Championships four times between 1975-80, going a combined 8-7.  In 1975, the Tribe finished a best-ever fourth, before falling in the consolation quarterfinals in 1976, taking fifth in 1979, and making the consolation quarterfinals again in 1980.

- W&M's win in the CAA Championship final was its first-ever conference tournament crown, dating back to the start of the South Atlantic Conference in 1984.  The SAC became the CAA in 1991.  Overall, W&M has appeared in five conference title games, in 1989, 1991, 2002, 2017, and 2018.

- The Tribe has a number of athletes racking up honors and awards this season:
    - Estelle Hughes - Most Outstanding Performer of the CAA Championships, CAA All-Tournament Team, First-Team All-CAA, NFHCA Senior Game, CAA Player of the Week (Sept. 11)
    - Christie van de Kamp - CAA All-Tournament Team, CAA Defensive Player of the Year, First-Team All-CAA
    - Annie Snead - Second-Team All-CAA
    - Woodard Hooper - Second-Team All-CAA, CAA Player of the Week (Oct. 9)
    - Cassidy Goodwin - CAA All-Tournament Team, Second-Team All-CAA
    - Kimi Jones - CAA All-Tournament Team, CAA Rookie of the Year, CAA All-Rookie Team, CAA Rookie of the Week (Oct. 16, Oct. 30)
    - Cara Menges - CAA All-Rookie Team, CAA Rookie of the Week (Oct. 2)
    - Jorja Morgan - CAA All-Rookie Team
    - Tess Ellis - CAA Coach of the Year

- W&M's eight all-conference honorees (before the CAA Tournament) were the most-ever not just in program history, but in conference history as well.  That included two first-team honorees, three on the second team, and a program-record three on the All-Rookie team.

- Tess Ellis was named the CAA Coach of the Year for the third time in her six seasons at the helm of Tribe field hockey.

- W&M has back-to-back 12-win seasons for the first time since 2003 and 2004.  A win on Friday would give the Tribe back-to-back 13 win seasons for the first time since 1987-88.

- With Hughes and Hooper both scoring 13 goals, it's the first time since 1980 and just the third time overall that W&M has had a pair of players with a baker's dozen in the same season.  In 1979, Basia Deren '83 scored 26 and Claire Campbell '80 added 13, and the following year, Deren had 15 with 14 coming from Karen Thorne '84.

- Snead scored her 12th assist of the year in the NCAA win over Monmouth, setting Hughes up to tie the match at 2-2 and send the game to overtime.  That broke the single-season program record that has stood since 1979.  All-American Pixie Hamilton '80 set that mark, which was also tied by All-American Karen Thorne '84 in the 1982 season.

- For her career, Snead has 20 assists, tied for fourth in school history.  She's just five away from the record of 25 set by Emma Clifton '15.

- Van de Kamp is just the second player in school history to score at least eight goals and nine assists in a season, joining Joanie Quinn '91 in 1990 (11 goals and 10 assists).  With her nine assists, van de Kamp is tied for sixth in school history in a single season.

- Between van de Kamp and Snead, this is the second time in school history (also 1990) that W&M has had two players with nine or more assists in the same year.

- Jones set the W&M freshman record on Wednesday with her 10th win of the year.  All-time among true freshman netminders, Jones ranks second in win percentage (.769), third in shutouts (2), GAA (1.77), and saves (57), and fourth in save percentage (.704).

- The Tribe has been very successful on penalty corners on both ends of the field this year.  On offense, W&M has scored 22 goals on 101 attempts, a 21.78% success rate, while on defense, the Tribe has held opponents to just 14 goals on 101 attempts, an 86.14% defensive rate.

- So far this season, W&M players have recorded nine multi-goal games, including against Pacific when both Hooper and van de Kamp scored two goals apiece and against James Madison, when it was Hooper and Hughes.

- The Tribe have also been exceedingly generous with the ball, with six multi-assist games on the ledger.  Both Snead and van de Kamp have had two double-assist games.

- Between the 22nd minute against Northeastern and the 24th minute against No. 21 Stanford, the W&M defense shutout its opponents for 285:11.  In that time, the Tribe out-scored its foes 17-0.

- Hooper's hat trick against Towson was the first of her career, and tied her for 15th all-time in a single game at W&M.  She has three multi-goal games this season, and is tied for eighth all-time at W&M with four games of 2+ goals.

- Hughes' hat trick against Brown was her first, and also one of three multi-goal games this season.  She's tied for third in school history with six games of 2+ goals.

- With both Hooper and Hughes scoring hat tricks this season, this is the first year since 2003 that W&M has had multiple hat tricks in the same year.

- Jones was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Oct. 16, after going 1-1 against Pacific and No. 21 Stanford, and added a second award on Oct. 30, after averaging 8.5 saves per game against No. 20 Virginia and James Madison.

- Hooper was named the CAA Player of the Week on Oct. 9 following her performance against Towson.

- Menges was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Oct. 2, after scoring two goals including the overtime game-winner against Northeastern.

- Hughes was named the CAA Player of the Week back on Sept. 11, after scoring four goals and an assist and leading W&M to wins over Brown and VCU.

- This season marked the first time that the Tribe has ever played west of the Mississippi River.  The Tribe is 9-7 all-time against teams from California, but before this year, all of those games were held either in Williamsburg or at other neutral sites.

- Head coach Tess Ellis became the third W&M coach to reach 50 wins with the victory over Towson, joining Nancy Porter (1974-1981) and Peel Hawthorne '80 (1987-2013)

- W&M's 4-0 start in CAA play matched the 2004 team as the only 4-0 starts in school history.

- The first seven of the Tribe's games this season were all won with at least four goals, the longest-such streak in school history.  Before the  6-1 win for No. 2 UCONN, the first six games had all been won with four goals each, which is the longest-ever streak of the same winning totals.

- With games against UCONN and Delaware, this is the first time since 1999 that the Tribe has played each of the previous two NCAA Champions in the same season.

- With the cancellation of the Davidson match due to Hurricane Florence, W&M finished the regular season with the fewest number of games played (16) since the 1989 season, which had 15 games before the South Atlantic Conference tournament.  W&M went 10-5 in those 15 games, and finished 12-6 after reaching the conference championship game.

- Over the summer, Christie van de Kamp was named to the Team USA U21 Junior National Team for the second year in a row.

- Both van de Kamp and and senior Jenny McCann (Annandale, Va.) have served as team captains this season.