The William & Mary field hockey team wraps up its season-long road trip this weekend, traveling to face Monmouth on Sunday at 11 a.m.  The rematch of last year's NCAA Opening Round game can be streamed live on ESPN3.com and through the ESPN app, and live stats will also be available through TribeAthletics.com.

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Scouting the Tribe
W&M comes into the weekend at 1-4 on the season, after a long week with road losses to Old Dominion, VCU (in a shootout), and to No. 1 North Carolina.  Senior captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) leads the team with two goals, both coming on penalty strokes.  On defense, goalkeepers Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) have been splitting time, combining for a 2.81 GAA and .674 save percentage with 29 stops.

Scouting the Hawks
Monmouth is 5-2 on the year, and beat Drexel on Friday 5-0 for their fourth win in the last five matches.  Yasmin Pratt and Annick van Lange each have six goals to lead the Hawks, while on defense, Kate O'Hogan has a 1.62 GAA and 14 saves on a .560 percentage.

The Series
- W&M and Monmouth have only met three times before, all three victories for the Tribe.  Last year, W&M won 3-2 in overtime over the Hawks in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

News and Notes
- W&M is 5-6 all-time in games played on Sept. 22.

- Since the start of the 2017 season, W&M is 19-9 (0.679) in games decided by one or two goals.  That includes an 11-6 mark (.647) in one-goal games, and 8-3 (.727) in two-goal games.

- Five of W&M's opponents appear in the latest NFHCA rankings, including four in the top-10.  North Carolina and Duke remain 1-2, with Louisville at No. 7, Delaware at No. 10, and Old Dominion earning its first ranking at No. 22.  Combined, those teams were 26-1 through last weekend's games.

- Senior Woodard Hooper (Williamsburg, Va.) scored the game-winner against Long Island, her 10th career game-winner.  That ranks her second among active players in Division I, behind only Michigan senior Meg Dowthwaite (with 15).  Hooper also ranks fifth all-time at W&M in game-winning goals, and tied for 13th in school history with 24 career goals so far.

- Christie van de Kamp's two goals have both come on penalty strokes, tying her fourth in school history in strokes made both in a single season, and in her career (three).  Saskia Bensdorp '98 made seven penalty strokes in the 1995 season and in her career, while second in both categories is shared between Amy Umbach '95, who had four in 1993, and Tara Duffy '01, who made four in 1999.

- 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 (Richmond, Va.), 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 57-64 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.