COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- Junior forward Caitlin Hoover was named to the 2025 National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division III All-American First Team, becoming the 14th different Diplomat to achieve this honor, while it's the 20th time F&M has earned a first-team spot. 

Caitlin Hoover's 2025 campaign featured one of the best offensive seasons in Franklin & Marshall field hockey history, leading to a selection to the NFHCA Division III All-American First Team. Earlier this month, she earned her second NFHCA All-Region V First-Team appearance. In November, she was named the Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Year with a second consecutive season on the conference's first team. Across Division III, she ranked sixth in goals per game (1.28) and seventh in points per game (2.94), leading the Centennial Conference in both categories plus game-winning goals (7). In program history, it was the second-best goals per game and points per game mark behind Becky Willert's 2011 campaign (1.33 GPG, 3.00 PPG). Her 56 points were the third-most in a single season, while her 24 goals ranked fourth. Across 19 games played, she scored at least a point in 16 games, with 14 multi-point games and eight-multi goal games. The season included a run of 15 consecutive games with at least a point. Hoover recorded three hat-tricks in 2025, breaking the program's career hat-trick record in the process with five total. She collected the Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week Award four times. It's the fourth time F&M had won the Offensive Player of the Year award after Erin Coverdale (2017, 18) and Lily Mynott (2019) won the award across three consecutive seasons. Hoover is F&M's 14th player named to the NFHCA All-American First Team, while it's the 20th overall time that a Diplomat was named to the first team. She is the 23rd overall player named an All-American, while it's the 37th time a player from F&M was named an All-American. 

The No. 14 Franklin & Marshall field hockey team (15-4, 8-2 Centennial Conference) wrapped up the 2025 season with an appearance in the Centennial Conference Tournament Semifinals for the fourth consecutive season and team's best overall winning percentage (.789) since the 2019 season. Among Centennial Conference teams, F&M ranked first in scoring average (3.28) and scoring margin (2.07), slotting in the top 25 in both categories nationally. The Diplomats spent ten consecutive weeks ranked in the Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III national Coaches Poll, ending at No. 14 with a season-best rank of No. 13.