UAlbany's Michele Polizois Earns America East Conference Field Hockey Player of the Week Award

Courtesy: UAlbany Sports Information

Cambridge, Mass. – University at Albany’s Michele Polizois has been chosen the America East Conference field hockey player of the week, as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon. It is the first weekly honor for both players this season.

Polizois recorded three goals, the first hat trick in the America East this season, and added an assist in Sunday’s 6-2 win over Hofstra. Polizois scored her first goal of the game on a penalty corner just over five minutes into the contest. Two minutes later, she converted a penalty stroke, her first of the season, placing the ball into the upper left corner of the cage. The senior midfielder tallied her third goal of the game less than a minute before halftime on a penalty corner to give the Great Danes a 4-1 advantage at the break. Polizois added her first assist of the season on UAlbany’s final goal of the game. She led the Great Danes with 12 shots on goal in two games last week.

UAlbany (3-1), ranked 19th nationally in the NFHCA Preseason Poll, will return to action over the weekend, as the team visits the West Coast to take on California on Saturday and Stanford the following day. Both teams are receiving votes in the NFHCA national poll.