Season Review: 2025 Michigan Field Hockey
12/19/2025 2:39:00 PM | Field Hockey
• Record: 10-7 overall, 4-4 Big Ten Conference (4th place)
• Big Ten Tournament: Semifinals
The University of Michigan field hockey team posted its 16th straight winning season in 2025 and the first under the leadership of new head coach Kristi Gannon Fisher. The Wolverines earned a 10-7 record, with four wins over nationally ranked opposition, while tying for fourth place in the Big Ten standings with a 4-4 league record and reaching the conference tournament semifinals.
Team Highlights
• Michigan posted three late and dramatic comeback wins on the season, including two that featured game-winning goals in the final 30 seconds of regulation. U-M scored twice in the fourth quarter in its wins against No. 20 Wake Forest (2-1, Aug. 31) and Stanford (3-2, Sept. 14). The Wolverines tallied the game-winning goal with :27 left against the Demon Deacons and :08 left against Stanford -- after tying the game off a penalty corner with just 1:02 left in the latter game. Graduate student Abby Tamer scored both game-winners on tips off hard passes from outside the circle.
The Wolverines also earned a 2-1 comeback win at home against No. 15 Rutgers (Oct. 5). Junior Juliette Manzur tied the game off a corner tip with time expired in the third quarter before Tamer again posted the game-winning goal with just 2:07 remaining in the fourth.
• Michigan outscored its opponents 28-15 in the second half this season and 14-6 in the fourth quarter.
• U-M posted is greatest single-game goal output in 45 years with its 13-0 win over Bellarmine in its 2025 home opener (Sept. 7). U-M earned goals from nine players, including a hat trick from sophomore Dru Moffett. The effort tied for the second-most goals in a game in Michigan's 53-year program history. Michigan's program record is 14, recorded in a 14-0 win against Olivet in 1980, while there has also been one other 13-goal game, a 13-0 win against Adrian in 1977.
• The Wolverines welcomed back more than 100 field hockey alums and 100 family members and friends for its celebratory MarciaPalooza and Alumni Weekend (Oct. 3-5). Pankratz was honored on the field at halftime against Penn State with members of the 1996 team, her first team, and 1997 team, her first Big Ten Championship team. Michigan defeated the Nittany Lions 2-1 and won by the same margin against No. 15 Rutgers two days later.
• The Wolverines opened the Big Ten Tournament with a dramatic 2-1 double-overtime win against No. 17 Rutgers in the quarterfinals (Nov. 6). Junior Abby Burnett converted on an attack penalty corner, ramping her shot off a Rutgers defender's stick and high into the top-left corner of the cage for the game-winning tally at 75:22. It was the Wolverines' lone overtime game of the season.
• Michigan held opponents to just eight total goals off penalty corners this season, including three across two games against NCAA champion Northwestern, and a slim conversion rate of 10.5 percent (8-for-76).
Individual Highlights
• Tamer became the 16th Wolverine player to earn multiple NFHCA All-America citations with her second-team selection. She led the Wolverines in scoring with eight goals, three assists and 19 points. Tamer was a unanimous selection to the All-Big Ten first team for the second year in a row and was named to the Big Ten All-Tournament Team. Tamer finished her collegiate career with 33 career goals, 26 assists and 92 points.
• Graduate student Claire Taylor earned the first accolades of her collegiate career with All-Big Ten first team and NFHCA All-West Region second team selection. She was a four-year fixture in the Wolverine backfield and served as U-M's center back in 2025, contributing to a defensive unit that allowed just 1.5 goals, 9.4 shots and 4.5 corners per game. Taylor also posted six points off a goal and four assists as one of U-M's primary stick stoppers on the attack corner unit, including four points at the Big Ten Tournament to earn a spot on the Big Ten All-Tournament Team. Taylor appeared in 74 career games with Michigan, starting 67, and registered two career goals and 13 assists.
• Manzur, an All-Big Ten second-team honoree, ranked second on the team in scoring with five goals, five assists and 15 points -- either surpassing or matching her career high in all three categories -- despite missing the last five games with injury. She played a key role in all three of U-M's comeback wins, netting the game-tying goals against Rutgers with time expired in the third quarter and in the fourth quarter against Wake Forest -- and contributed the Wolverines' first goal in their 3-2 comeback at Stanford. With her marker against Wake Forest, she recorded U-M's first goal of the season for the third consecutive year.
• Freshman Maxine Rogge was the first Wolverine freshman to garner All-Big Ten honors since Lauren Thomas in 2012 with her second-team selection and was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team. She started all 17 games this season as Michigan's center midfielder and posted three goals and five assists as one of U-M primary corner strikers.
• Redshirt sophomore Hala Silverstein and graduate student Caylie McMahon split time in the Wolverine cage this season, combining for a 1.47 goals-against average and .716 save percentage. Silverstein led Michigan with a 1.25 GAA and career-best .766 save percentage -- up from her .677 percentage the previous season.
• Redshirt junior Zoë Bormet was named Michigan's female nominee for this year's Big Ten Jackie Robinson Community & Impact Award. Bormet is a 2025-26 Team Impact Fellow -- also acting as lead for Michigan field hockey's match (Charlotte) -- and serves on the SAAC community engagement board as well as the T. Wall Foundation, which works with more than 2,000 special needs families annually around Ann Arbor and surrounding communities. She was previously named Michigan Athletics' 2024-25 Rachael Townsend Leadership Award winner for leading and encouraging her peers and teammates to serve.
• Gannon Fisher was honored as part of Michigan Athletics' 2025 Hall of Honor induction class on Oct. 17. As a Wolverine student-athlete (2000-03), Gannon Fisher was a two-time All-American, the 2003 Big Ten Player of the Year and a member of the Wolverines' 2001 NCAA field hockey national championship team. She still ranks among the top 10 in every major Michigan career scoring category with 37 goals, 26 assists and 100 career points. Among the three other field hockey inductees, she joins her sister, Kelli, in the Michigan Hall of Honor.
Honors and Awards
Abby
Tamer
Claire
Taylor
Abby
Burnett
Juliette
Manzur
National Field Hockey Coaches Association
All-America (Second Team): Abby Tamer
All-West Region (First Team): Abby Tamer
All-West Region (Second Team): Claire Taylor
Senior Team: Abby Tamer
Big Ten Conference
All-Big Ten (First Team): Abby Tamer (unanimous), Claire Taylor
All-Big Ten (Second Team): Abby Burnett, Juliette Manzur, Maxine Rogge
Freshman Team: Maxine Rogge
Sportsmanship Award: Emmy Tran
All-Tournament Team: Abby Tamer, Claire Taylor
Academic All-Big Ten
Sofia Abraham, So., Business Administration
Eva Bernardy, So., Business Administration
Zoë Bormet, Sr., Psychology
Abby Burnett, Jr., Biology
Esmée de Willigen, Jr., Business Administration
Aurora Gery, So., LSA Undeclared
Maddie Grand, So., Mechanical Engineering
Natalie Machiran, So., Movement Science
Payton Maloney, Jr., Communication & Media
Juliette Manzur, Jr., Psychology
Zoe Martin, So., Business Administration
Caylie McMahon, Gr., Master of Business Analytics
Natalie Millman, Jr., Business Administration
Dru Moffett, So., LSA Undeclared
Anjolie Norton, So., LSA Undeclared
Hala Silverstein, Jr., Business Administration
Abby Tamer, Gr., Master of Sport Management
Claire Taylor, Gr., Master of Management
Emmy Tran, Sr., Information
Cami Wiseman, So., Business Administration
