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2017 Field Hockey

35 Liz Mata

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Severna Park
  • Hometown Severna Park, Md.

Biography

2017: Started in eight games as the Quakers primary netminder before falling to a season-ending injury midway through her senior season… Recorded a 4-4 record and played 546:30 minutes in cage in her final collegiate season… Made 33 saves and tallied a 1.67 goals against average… Notched a .717 save percentage… Notched two shutout victories vs. Villanova (Sept. 10) and Cornell (Sept. 23)… Recorded a season-high eight saves in a 3-1 loss to North Carolina (Sept. 3).

2016: Started all 17 games in goal. . . Finished the season with 4.1 shutouts, two of them coming in Ivy League play . . . Tied for first in the Ivy League with 4.1 shutouts . . . Stopped a career-high 14 shots against Delaware (10/16) . . . Recorded shutouts in two of the first three games of the season against Lehigh (9/2) and LIU-Brooklyn (9/9) . . . Posted shutouts in consecutive games at Dartmouth (10/7) and against Temple (10/9) . . . Made 13 saves against Syracuse, one shy of her career-high (9/25) . . . Made at least five saves in eight of 17 games this season

2015: Started all 16 games in goal … Finished with a 13-3 record, a 2.15 goals-against average, and a .689 save percentage … Won nine consecutive games from Sept. 6 – October 10 … Held opponents to two goals or less in every game this year excluding the season opener against Liberty, a game in which she made seven saves … Made five or more saves in eight games … Made seven saves in season opener, a loss at Liberty (9/4) … Had six saves in wins at Temple (9/13) and at Brown (10/31) … Five-save performances in an Ivy win at Harvard (10/3) … Held Lafayette scoreless for the first 64-plus minutes in a shutout win over the Leopards (10/6).

2014: Started and played in one match this season … Made her collegiate debut in goal at home versus Monmouth (10/9) … Recorded three saves in less than 52 minutes of action against the Hawks.

High School: Lettered for three years in field hockey … Helped Sevema Park claim the 2013 and 2011 Maryland Class 4 A state championships … NFHCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region team (2013) … Named first-team All-State in 2013 … Capital Gazette Player of the Week Honorable Mention (2013) … Three-time Junior Olympian ... U.S. Women’s Junior National Indoor Field Hockey team (2012, 2013).

Personal: Daughter of Leslie and Silvester Mata ... Sister, Emily, plays field hockey at Boston College ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Historical Player Information

  • 35

    2014Freshman

    GK
    35
  • 35

    2015Sophomore

    GK
    5'7"
    35
  • 35

    2016Junior

    GK
    5'7"
    35
  • 35

    2017Senior

    GK
    5'7"
    35