The William & Mary field hockey team looks to bounce back in the win column this weekend, with a pair of matches at home on Family Weekend.  The Tribe opens Colonial Athletic Association play on Friday night at 7 p.m., hosting James Madison, before welcoming Georgetown to Busch Field on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m.  Live stats for both matches are available through TribeAthletics.com.

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Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 3-5 on the year after splitting two matches already this week, beating Vermont 3-1 on Sunday before falling to Longwood 1-0 on Tuesday.  Senior captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) leads the team in scoring with three goals and an assist, while Woodard Hooper (Williamsburg, Va.) and Haley Hopkins (Springfield, Va.) have a pair of goals each.  On defense, sophomore Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) has the majority of minutes in goal with a 2.25 GAA and 25 saves, on a .658 save percentage.

Scouting the Dukes
James Madison enters the weekend 3-6 overall, with losses to No. 5 Virginia (2-0) and No. 1 North Carolina (9-0) last week.  Miranda Rigg is the team's leading scorer with four goals and two assists, while Marina Rupinski has three goals to her credit.  In goal, minutes are nearly even between Kylie LeBlanc and Caitlin Nelson, with LeBlanc carrying a 3.22 GAA and 18 saves on a .563 percentage, while Nelson's line is 3.44/29/.644.

Scouting the Hoyas
Georgetown is 5-5 on the year and 1-1 in the Big East, falling to Quinnipiac and American by identical 2-1 scores in its last outings.  The Hoyas will play Old Dominion on Friday before continuing on to Williamsburg.  In the stats, Georgetown has four players with three or more goals, with Lindsay Getz leading the pack with four goals and an assist.  On defense, Ciara Weets played every minute of the first nine games with a 1.50 GAA and 58 saves on a .774 save percentage, but Megan Maynes played the entirety of the last match, allowing two goals and stopping five.

The Series
- This is the 82nd meeting all-time between W&M and James Madison, second-most in program history.  The first meeting was all the way back in 1930, and the Dukes hold a 43-28-10 advantage in the series.  The Tribe has won the last two meetings, however, including 5-4 in overtime last season in Harrisonburg.  The teams have met five times in the last three years, including two match-ups in the CAA Tournament, and only one of those five games have been decided by more than one goal.
- W&M is 5-1 all-time against Georgetown, and winners of four in a row.  The two teams last met in 2016, a 6-2 Tribe win in Washington.

News and Notes
- Freshman Lily Saunders (Mount Joy, Pa.) was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Tuesday, after scoring the Tribe's first goal against Vermont.  That sparked W&M on to score three unanswered for its second win in a row.  Saunders' goal was the first of her career, and the first for a freshman this season.

- Van de Kamp's three penalty strokes made not only leads all players in the NCAA this season, but is also more than any other team has made total through last weekend.  Only Maryland (4) has taken more penalty stroke attempts on the year so far.

- Hopkins scored the winning goal against both Monmouth and Vermont, which were her first two collegiate goals.

- Senior captain Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) picked up an assist against the Hawks, and is now tied for third all-time at W&M with 21 career assists.

- W&M is 24-11 (0.686) all-time in conference openers, dating back to 1984.  Overall, the Tribe is 128-95-4 (0.573) in conference games, first in the South Atlantic Conference (1984-90) and then in the Colonial Athletic Association (1991-present).

- Since the start of the 2017 season, W&M is 21-10 (0.677) in games decided by one or two goals.  That includes an 11-7 mark (.611) in one-goal games, and 10-3 (.769) in two-goal games.

- Six of W&M's opponents appear in the latest NFHCA rankings, including three in the top-10.  North Carolina and Duke remain 1-2, with Louisville at No. 6, Delaware at No. 11, and Old Dominion ranked No. 22.  CAA-foe Northeastern entered the polls at 6-3 overall, good for No. 25.

- Hooper scored the game-winner against Long Island, her 10th career game-winner.  That ranks her third among active players in Division I, behind only Michigan senior Meg Dowthwaite (with 15) and Stanford junior Corinne Zanolli (11).  Hooper also ranks fifth all-time at W&M in game-winning goals, and is 13th in school history with 25 career goals so far.

- This year marks the first time that W&M has ever been picked as the pre-season favorite in the CAA.

- Senior captain Christie van de Kamp is the first player in the roughly decade-long pre-season CAA voting to be named the Pre-Season Player of the Year for W&M.  She was joined on the pre-season all-conference team by fellow seniors Annie Snead, Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.), and Woodard Hooper.  Sophomore Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.) was named honorable-mention as well.

- Only three players from the CAA's top-10 in assists in 2018 return this year, all from W&M - all three were voted team captains this year.  Senior Annie Snead had 12 helpers to break the school record that had stood since 1979, and classmate Christie van de Kamp had nine assists, becoming just the second player since 1990 to score eight goals and nine assists in a single year.  Sophomore Cara Menges added in six assists along with her three goals, to earn CAA All-Rookie honors.

- Head coach Tess Ellis is in her 24th season at W&M and seventh as head coach, with a 59-65 career record (22-14 in CAA games).

- Sophomore Kimi Jones is the reigning Colonial Athletic Association and VaSID State Rookie of the Year, after going 10-3 with 58 saves and a 1.96 GAA as a freshman in 2018.

- Freshman Amber Bode (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) is just the third player from Illinois to ever play for W&M, and the first to do so since Jackie Adams in 1943.

- Another freshman, Tabby Billingham (Dallinghoo, Suffolk, England) is the third Englishwoman in team history, and the first to hail from Suffolk.  She joins her teammate junior Caitlin MacLean (Devizes, Wiltshire, England), as well as Jill Tester (Brighton, Sussex, England) who played as an exchange grad student in 1952.