LANCASTER, Pa.- The No. 14 Franklin & Marshall (14-5, 7-3 Centennial Conference) landed five players on the 2026 All-Centennial Conference Field Hockey Team, led by Caitlin Hoover securing Offensive Player of the Year honors for the second-consecutive season. She was a first-team selection alongside Megan Dadio and Meghan Dole, Hannah Fitzgerald earned a second-straight second team spot, while Maya Rorick is on the honorable mention team in back-to-back years.

A 20-goal, 41-point season for senior forward Caitlin Hoover earned her Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Year award for the second-straight season. Hoover, a returning National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) First Team All-American, ranks tied for the Centennial Conference lead in goals (20) and points (41). Nationally, she is tied for 13th in goals per game (1.11) and 29th in points per game (2.31). Hoover had six games with multiple goals, while she extended her program hat-trick record to seven with a pair of three-goal performances in September against Susquehanna and Montclair State. She surpassed current assistant coach Erin McCormick '20 to set two more program records in career goals and points. She established the new goals record in a 4-0 win over McDaniel in September, while she passed McCormick for points in October's 2-0 victory over Bryn Mawr. While she is the program standard setter for goals (63), points (143), and hat-tricks (7), she also ranks second in points per game (1.88), second in goals per game (0.83), tied for 12th in assists (17), and tied for 21st in assists per game (0.21). 

Junior midfielder Megan Dadio made it three-straight years as an all-conference player, landing on the first team in back-to-back seasons. Dadio, F&M's primary penalty corner injector, is tied with Hannah Fitzgerald for the most assists in the Centennial Conference (8), while she ranks tied for seventh in goals (8), and eighth in points (24), setting new career bests in all categories. She provided the game-winning assist in five of F&M's 2026 victories while providing the assist to Hoover's record-setting 138th point to establish a new program record. Dadio set a new career-best of three goals and six points in F&M's 5-2 win over Washington College, her first career hat-trick, to become 23rd Diplomat with at least one hat-trick.

Senior goalkeeper Meghan Dole landed the All-Centennial Conference First Team goalkeeper spot after producing the strongest season from anyone guarding the cage in the conference. She was a first-team player and rookie of the year in 2023, while she earned a spot on the honorable mention team in 2024. This season, she leads the Centennial Conference in goals against average (0.68) while sharing the lead for save percentage (.809). Nationally, she ranks sixth in goals against average and tied for 24th in save percentage. She ends her career tied for the second most wins (50) in program history, while she has the sixth-most shutouts (23), ninth-best goals against average (1.09), 13th-best save percentage (.790) in F&M field hockey history.

Senior forward Hannah Fitzgerald is a repeat on the All-Centennial Conference Second Team following a season where she tied with Dadio for the most assists in the conference (8). She also ranks tied for 11th in points and tied for 21st in goals (5). Fitzgerald starred in the Diplomats' attack in the later stages of the season, registering ten of her 18 points in the final four games of the season that included a career-best five-point performance (2 goals, 1 assist) in a 3-1 win over No. 14 Swarthmore in the regular season finale. She became one of now six Diplomats tied for the single-game assists record when she tallied three assists in October's 5-2 win over Washington College. Fitzgerald ends her career tied for the seventh-most assists (22), 12th in assists per game (0.27), 19th in points 66, and 27th in points per game (0.89).

Junior midfielder Maya Rorick secured back-to-back appearances on the Centennial Conference Honorable Mention team. Rorick maintained her consistent presence in both defense and in transition while providing two goals and four assists in attack, setting new career highs in both categories. She recorded one goal and one assist apiece in two contests including F&M's 4-0 win at Susquehanna to open the season plus the team's 5-2 win over Washington College in October.  

The No. 14 Franklin & Marshall field hockey team wrapped up the 2026 season with a 14-5, 7-3 Centennial Conference record, securing a fifth-consecutive appearance in the Centennial Conference Tournament semifinal. The Diplomats spent every week in the NFHCA Division III Coaches Poll this year, peaking at No. 7 in the poll's second week. Among Centennial Conference teams, they rank second in scoring average (2.58), goals against average (0.79), and scoring margin (1.79).