LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – Centre College forward Teresa Johnstone and Rhodes College midfielder Charlie Wagner headline an impressive list of past standouts named to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference's 30th Anniversary field hockey team. Complete Release
No longer a conference-sponsored sport, field hockey was played in the SCAC from 2004 through the 2011 season and the fourteen former student-athletes selected to the team represent the best of the best from that era.
SCAC FIELD HOCKEY – 30TH ANNIVERSARY TEAM
- Allison Baccich, Forward, DePauw University
- Lindsey Gurkovich, Forward, Rhodes College
- Teresa Johnstone, Forward, Centre College
- Hilary Mast, Forward, Rhodes College
- Sarah Riffle, Forward, DePauw University
- Claiborne Buckingham, Midfielder, University of the South
- Caroline Carlin, Midfielder, University of the South
- Barbara Parks, Midfielder, Centre College
- Charlie Wagner, Midfielder, Rhodes College
- Jennifer Bohnert, Defender, Centre College
- Sally Faulkner, Defender, Centre College
- Regan McLaughlin, Defender, Rhodes College
- Becca Rojek, Defender, DePauw University
- Ann Guagliardo, Goalkeeper, Centre College
Johnstone, one of just four players in league history to earn First-Team All-SCAC honors for four years, had 36 career goals (second all-time in SCAC history) and 17 career assists (fourth all-time) and was the league’s all-time leading scorer with 89 points (now second) when she finished her career in 2008. She had the game-winning goal in the 2005 championship game to lead Centre to its only SCAC tournament title and in 2007, was named the league’s Co-Offensive Player of the Year after scoring a league-high 26 points. She also earned Second Team NFHCA All-America honors that season, becoming the first player since the SCAC began to recognize the sport as an officially-sponsored conference sport to earn AA honors from that organization.
Wagner, another four-time All-SCAC First Team honoree, is the only player in league history to earn NFHCA All-Region honors four times and is the only two-time All-American, picking up third team honors as a junior and second team honors as a senior. She finished her career with 18 assists (third all-time) and is one of six players who had three career assists in SCAC Tournament play. Wagner’s overtime assist in the 2009 title game propelled Rhodes to its first conferment title since 2006 and her assist in the second half of the 2010 championship game led to the game-tying score and an eventual overtime win, giving the Lynx back-to-back conference titles.
Joining Johnstone as forwards on the All-Anniversary team are Allison Baccich and Sarah Riffle of DePauw University and Hilary Mast and Lindsey Gurkovich of Rhodes.
Baccich finished her career with 33 goals and 74 points (both third all-time in SCAC history), culminating with earning Co-Offensive Player-of-the-Year honors as a senior in 2006. In addition to earning First Team All-SCAC honors three consecutive years, Baccich was also named First Team NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region those same years (2004-06) – one of just four players in league history to earn three or more First Team All-Region nods over their career.
Riffle is one of just two players in league history to win multiple Player-of-the-Year honors, earning Offensive POTW 2008 and 2009. She was also selected First Team NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region those same two seasons. Her 32 goals and 72 career points both rank fourth, respectively, on the SCAC all-time charts. She earned an invite to the NFHCA Division III Senior Game in 2009.
Mast joins Riffle as a two-time Offensive POTY award winner, taking top honors in 2004 and sharing the honor with Baccich in 2006. Mast scored 25 goals and assisted on 15 more in her career, finishing with 65 total points (fifth in SCAC history). She scored the only goal in the inaugural SCAC championship game in 2004 to lead Rhodes to a 1-0 shutout of Sewanee. Mast, who earned First Team NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region honors in 2004, 2005 and 2006, was selected Third Team All-American her sophomore year (2004) by womensfieldhockey.com.
Gurkovich is the league’s all-time leading scorer, finishing her four years at Rhodes with category topping totals of 39 goals and 26 assists for 104 points. She was clutch in SCAC tournament play, scoring the game-winning overtime goal in the 2009 title game and assisting on the game-winner in the 2010 championship game in leading the Lynx to back-to-back conference titles. Gurkovich earned Second Team NFHCA All-Great Lakes honors as a sophomore in 2008 and was named to the First Team in both 2009 and 2010.
In addition to Wagner’s selection at midfielder, Claiborne Buckingham and Caroline Carlin of University of the South-Sewanee and Barbara Parks of Centre also earned slots on the All-Anniversary team at that position.
Buckingham, Sewanee’s only four-time First Team All-SCAC honoree, was the league’s Newcomer of the Year in 2005 and Co-Defensive POTY a year later as a sophomore. The defensive-minded midfielder also contributed on the offensive side of the field, scoring 15 career goals, and assisting on 16 others (tied for seventh in SCAC history). She was selected First Team NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Carlin, a three-time All-SCAC First Team selection, finished her career with 25 goals (tied for seventh all-time in SCAC history) and 54 points (tied for 10th). Perhaps the biggest goal of her career came in the 2008 SCAC championship match as she pushed home the game-winner midway through the second period to give Sewanee its only SCAC Field Hockey title. Carlin earned First Team NFHCA All-Great Lakes honors in 2009 and 2010.
Parks earned All-SCAC First Team honors in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and was the league’s Newcomer-of-the-Year in 2009. She averaged 0.44 assists per game for her career – the highest average in league history – and her 22 assists are the second most in SCAC history. Parks finished with 56 career points (seventh best in SCAC history) – the second-highest career total (behind Johnstone) of any Centre College player. She earned NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region honors in 2009 (Second Team) as well as 2010 and 2011 (First Team).
Four defenders were also selected to the All-Anniversary team: Jennifer Bohnert and Sally Faulkner of Centre, Becca Rojek of DePauw and Regan McLaughlin of Rhodes.
Bohnert was a two-time All-SCAC First Team selection and three-time NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region honoree – earning First Team honors in 2010 and 2011. As a senior, she was the league’s Co-Defensive POTY and was one of just two players in the league to earn an invitation to the NFHCA Division III Senior Game. The Colonels led the league in goals-against-average two of her four years in Danville, including the 2010 season when they posted the lowest GAA in league history (0.68).
Faulkner was a three-time All-SCAC First Team selection as well as a three-time NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region honoree (Second Team in 2007 and 2008 and First Team in 2009). She was also part of two Centre teams that led the league in GAA (2007 and 2008). Faulkner chipped in offensively from her mid-defensive position, scoring 12 goals and adding four assists in her four years at Centre.
DePauw’s Rojek earned All-SCAC First Team honors in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region accolades in 2007 (Second Team) and 2009 (First Team). DePauw led the league in goals-against-average her freshman year as well as defensive shutouts her senior season with nine – the second-highest single season total in league history.
McLaughlin only played her freshman and sophomore seasons in the SCAC – but made a huge impact, nonetheless. She was the league’s Co-Defensive POTY in 2011 and played a vital role on Rhodes teams that won conference championships in both 2010 and 2011. She assisted on the final goal scored in SCAC field hockey history as Rhodes cruised to a 4-0 victory over Centre in the 2011 title game. McLaughlin, who was an NFHCA All-Great Lakes Region selection in 2010 (Second Team) and 2011 (First Team), went on to earn Third Team All-America honors as a senior.
Centre’s Ann Guagliardo was selected as the All-Anniversary goalkeeper. The only four-time First Team All-SCAC goalkeeper in league history, Guagliardo posted a career 1.37 goals-against-average (ninth in SCAC history) and capped her four years in Danville by earning SCAC Defensive POTY honors as a senior in 2007. Among her career highlights, which includes NFHCA First Team All-Great Lakes Region honors in both 2005 and 2007, Guagliardo allowed just one goal during the 2005 SCAC tournament in leading the Colonels to their only conference field hockey title.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will be announcing 30th Anniversary teams in 19 sports throughout the 2020-21 academic year. The SCAC was formed in 1991 after a reorganization of its predecessor, the College Athletic Conference (CAC). The CAC dates to 1962 with four charter members: Centre College, Southwestern @ Memphis (now Rhodes College), Sewanee-The University of the South, and Washington & Lee (Va.) University. Washington (Mo.) University joined the CAC later that same year.
The SCAC was formed to provide an association through which the member institutions may encourage organized competition in intercollegiate sports among teams representative of their respective student bodies. Members of this conference share a commitment to priority of the overall quality of academic standards and quality educational experiences.
