Clarke, Tamer on All-Big Ten First Team, Six Wolverines Earn Conference Honors
11/6/2024 1:00:00 PM | Field Hockey
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The University of Michigan field hockey team placed four players on the All-Big Ten Conference teams, the league announced Wednesday (Nov. 6) on the eve of the 2024 Big Ten Tournament. Graduate student Lora Clarke and senior/junior Abby Tamer were named to the All-Big Ten first team, while graduate students Kate McLaughlin and Erin Reilly received second-team recognition.
Freshman Anjolie Norton was also named to the conference's inaugural All-Freshman Team, while graduate student Lindsey Stagg was named the Wolverines' Sportsmanship Award recipient, given annually to student-athletes who distinguish themselves through good sportsmanship and ethical behavior, as well as demonstrate academic excellence and good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting.
Clarke earned a repeat selection on the All-Big Ten first team, while Tamer, McLaughlin and Reilly all earned conference team honors for the first time in their collegiate careers.
Clarke, in her second season as the top of the Wolverine midfield, owns two goals and seven assists as one of U-M's primary corner inserters. She owns one game-winning goal -- and another off a penalty stroke at Michigan State -- and assisted on three other game-winners. Clarke has started 79 of 91 total games played at Michigan and boasts 23 career goals, 24 assists and 70 points. In addition to her All-Big Ten first-team honors last season, Clarke was also named to the NFHCA All-West Region first team and earned a spot on the NFHCA All-America third team.
Tamer, one of eight unanimous selections on the first team, leads Michigan with 12 goals, 13 assists and 37 points -- career highs in all three categories. She also leads the Big Ten with 0.81 assists per game and ranks third with 2.31 points per game. Tamer returned to the Wolverine lineup after Olympic redshirting the 2023 season and playing with Team USA in Paris, where she led the red, white and blue with two goals. Tamer previously earned NFHCA All-West Region second-team honors in 2022.
McLaughlin also owns career highs in all offensive categories with 11 goals, four assists and 26 points and is one of Michigan's primary inserters on its attack corner. After missing several games with injury midway through the season, she ranks third in the Big Ten and 10th nationally with a 0.92 goals-per-game average. She scored nine goals over a five-game span before her injury, including three goals and an assist at Boston University (Sept. 6). McLaughlin has played in 73 games, starting 28, over her Michigan career and owns 25 goals, 11 assists and 61 points.
Reilly has been a fixture of the Wolverine defense over the last two seasons and has served as U-M's center midfielder and field general this year, contributing to a defensive unit that has allowed just 1.00 goals and 6.3 shots per game. She also owns seven goals and one assist as a primary striker on the Wolverines' attack corner unit. Reilly has appeared in 58 career games with 35 starts and carries 13 career goals and three assists.
Norton is the first Wolverine to earn Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors. She has started 15 of 16 games in the backfield and, like Reilly, contributes to a defense that has allowed just 1.00 goals and 6.3 shots per game. As a key member of the Wolverines' defensive corner unit, Norton has allowed just five goals off 54 penalty corners against -- a conversion rate of 9.3 percent.
Michigan will kick off its postseason at the Big Ten Tournament, opening play against Indiana at 5 p.m. on Thursday (Nov. 7) at Maryland's Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex in College Park, Md.
