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2018 Field Hockey Roster

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31 Kerri Thornton

  • Position Midfield
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Freshman
  • Highschool Ward Melville
  • Hometown Stony Brook, NY

Biography

2022: First Team All-CAACAA Player of the Week (March 14) … started all 17 games of the season … tied to lead the team with 50 points to bring her career total over the century mark at 110 … ranked second with 41 goals including a career-high six scores at Delaware (April 30) … has scored at least once in all but one outing this spring while also securing seven hat tricks … paced the squad with four game-winning goals, securing team victories against Georgetown (March 26), William & Mary (April 27), Delaware twice (April 30 & May 6) … also ranked second on the squad with nine assists and 11 free position goals … served as the team’s primary draw taker, tallying 49 draw controls to rank third.   

2021: Fourth on the team in scoring with 29 points (20g. 9a) … finished third in draw controls (29) … had back-to-back hat tricks in the CAA tournament versus Elon (May 5) and Drexel (May 7) … scored two goals four times, including both games against Stony Brook as well as Temple (March 10) and Georgetown (March 13) … tied a career-high in assists with three against Hofstra (April 25) … also had multiple assists in both regular season games versus Drexel … had a season-high six draw controls in a win over William & Mary (April 10) … career-best three groundballs versus Elon (May 5).

2020: Finished fourth on the team with 12 points, scoring five goals and handing out seven assists … had a point in all six games … scored a pair of goals on three occasions (Penn State, Loyola, Stony Brook) … dished out three assists in a win over Ohio State … led the team with 21 draw controls, including a season-best six against Stony Brook.
 
2019: CAA All-Rookie Team ... Started in all 17 games played ... finished fifth on the team in points with 14 goals and five assists for 19 points ... scored two goals in five different games ... had a career day against Saint Joseph's with two goals and two assists ... ranked second in draw controls with 48 … had a season-high eight draw controls vs. Loyola ... Rookie of the Week on April 1 and April 22 … starter on the Towson field hockey team in fall 2018, contributing two assists.
 
Prior to Towson: Played midfield for head coach Shannon Watson at Ward Melville … captain of the team her senior year ... in her senior season scored 16 goals and had 10 assists ... her junior year scored a career-best 21 goals ... two-time New York State All-State team honoree ... two-time Newsday All Long Island First Team selection ... helped her team win the 2017 New York State Class A Championship ... 2017 Northeast Region First Team ... 2017 Suffolk County Field Hockey Coaches Association Player of the Year ... helped her team win the 2017 regional and county championships, as well as the Long Island Class A Championship and the Suffolk County Division I Championship ... was also a member of the National Honor Society ... received recognition for being a New York State Scholar Athlete all four years ... also was a four-year varsity winter track runner, and captain of the varsity lacrosse team.

Personal: Daughter of Jill and Brian Thornton ... has one brother and two sisters ... her sister Kaitlyn is also on the Towson Women's Lacrosse team, while her brother Sean played lacrosse at Springfield College and her father played men's lacrosse at C.W. Post … admires her grandfather the most ... roots for the New York Jets, Rangers and Mets ... her favorite athlete is Tom Brady.

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