Maddie Bacskai

Photo by: Paul Neff

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Height:
5-5
Class:
Senior
High School:
Episcopal Academy (Pa.)
Hometown:
Berwyn, Pa.

Awards:
Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches' Association (NFHCA) First-Team All-America (2017)
Mid-Atlantic All-Region First Team (2017)
Mid-Atlantic All-Region Second Team (2016, 2018)
Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year (2017)
First Team All-Ivy (2016, 2017, 2018)
NFHCA All-Academic Team (2018, 2019, 2020)

2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19

2019: Missed the season with an injury.

2018: Started every game … Scored five times, added three helpers … Had a goal and an assist vs. No. 4 Duke (Sept. 7) … Helped on a goal vs. Monmouth (Sept. 14) … Season-best six shots vs. No. 13 Delaware (Sept. 16) … Recorded four shots at Yale (Sept. 28) … Contributed a tally at No. 3 UConn (Oct. 7) … Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 8) … Longstreth/NFHCA Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 10) … Assist vs. Brown (Oct. 13) … Scored vs. Penn (Nov. 3) … Had the game-winning goal vs. No. 13 Virginia in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (Nov. 9) that was featured on Sportscenter’s Top 10 plays ... Registered the game-winner vs. No. 6 Harvard in the NCAA Quarterfinals (Nov. 11).

2017: Started every game for the Tigers, scoring four goals, three of which were game-winners… Helped hold Dartmouth without a shot in the second half (Sept. 23) … Scored the only goal at No. 24 Boston University (Sept. 24) … Was part of a unit that did not allow a shot on goal vs. Columbia (Oct. 6) … Snagged the game-winning goal at No. 15 Harvard (Oct. 21) … Pushed Princeton to a comeback victory at Penn (Nov. 4) to clinch the outright Ivy title … Ivy League Player of the Week (Nov. 6) ... Picked up a goal vs. No. 4 North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament (Nov. 12).

2016: Played and started every game for Princeton … Scored twice and had three assists … Took 33 shots, 15 landing on goal … Made two defensive saves … Season-best four shots vs. Bucknell (Sept. 4) and vs. Albany (Sept. 9) … Registered first career goal at Yale (Oct. 1) … First career defensive save at Penn State (Oct. 2) … Had an assist at Columbia (Oct. 7) … Posted an assist at vs. then-No. 20 Harvard (Oct. 22) … Snagged a tally vs. Penn (Nov. 5) … Recorded a defensive save vs then-No. 5 Penn State (Nov. 12) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Before Princeton:
Episcopal Academy (Pa.): Lettered all four years for a field hockey team that went 88-4-2 in her career … Senior captain that was first team All-League, All-Delco and Pennsylvania All-Region … Also was first team All-League in 2014 … School’s Bicentennial Class Field Hockey Award winner … Squad won back-to-back (2014-15) PAISSA and Inter-AC Championships … Team also won both titles in 2012 … Played varsity golf and was a member of the Bishop’s Bunker Spirit Club.

National/Regional Team Experience:
USA U-21 National Team (2016) ... Helped U-21 squad to Junior Pan American Games Silver Medal and fifth place in the Junior World Cup (2016).

Personal: Daughter of Colleen and Ron Bacskai … Has two brothers, Brendan and Sean … Brother, Sean, plays golf at Drexel University.

Career Highs:
Shots - 6, vs. No. 13 Delaware (Sept. 16, 2018)
Goals - 1, 11x MR - vs. No. 6 Harvard (Nov. 11, 2018)
Assists - 1, 6x - MR - vs. Brown (Oct. 13, 2018)
Points - 3, vs. No. 4 Duke (Sept. 7, 2018)