Cornell freshman Rebecca Block was named Ivy League field hockey Rookie of the Year, becoming the program's third recipient and its first since Hannah Balleza in 2010.
Junior Uma Käding earned first-team All-Ivy honors, while Block and senior Rease Coleman made the second team, according to Cornell's announcement of the postseason awards. Senior Julia Ramsey received honorable mention, and senior Emma Poplyk was Cornell's Academic All-Ivy selection.
Block makes an immediate impact
Block started all 16 contests after being named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association preseason watch list before her collegiate debut. She finished second on the team with 40 shots and 24 shots on goal, and third with five goals and 11 points.
Her first game produced two goals, including the winner, and an assist in a 5-0 victory over La Salle. Seven of her eight shots were on goal. She also scored against Brown, Harvard on a penalty stroke, and New Hampshire.
Block led Cornell with 899 minutes played. She logged a season-high 63 minutes against Princeton and played all 60 minutes in nine other games.
Käding leads the attack, Coleman supplies assists
Käding moved up from last year's second team after leading Cornell with 10 goals, 23 points, 56 shots and 34 shots on goal. She led the Ivy League and ranked 29th nationally with 0.69 goals per game, and stood second in the league and 41st nationally with 1.50 points per game.
She appeared in all 16 games, starting 15, and moved into 10th place in Cornell history with 27 career goals. Like Block, she was on the NFHCA preseason watch list.
Käding earned Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors after scoring and assisting on the winner in a 3-2 victory over No. 15 Yale. She also scored game-winners against Columbia and Colgate, scoring twice in each game.
She scored in eight games, including against La Salle, Indiana, Brown, Princeton and Dartmouth. Her season-high 11 shots, eight on goal, came in the opener against La Salle.
Coleman led the Ivy League and ranked third nationally with 0.94 assists per game. Her 15 assists rank third on Cornell's single-season list and brought her career total to 30, fourth in program history.
Coleman finished second on the team with 17 points and ninth in the league in points per game. She played all 16 games, starting 15, and had assists in 10 contests.
She recorded two assists against La Salle, Columbia, Brown, Colgate and New Hampshire. Her four-point performance against New Hampshire included a goal and two assists in a 6-1 win.
Ramsey adds to record-setting career
Ramsey's honorable mention followed the same recognition in 2025, making her and Coleman two-time All-Ivy selections. She holds Cornell's career assists record with 43 and ranks ninth in program history with 69 career points.
A preseason watch-list selection, Ramsey started all 16 games and had two goals and eight assists for 12 points. Her 0.50 assists per game ranked fourth in the league and 39th nationally.
She earned Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honors after helping hold nationally ranked Yale to two goals on 15 shots and nine penalty corners. She also assisted on two penalty-corner goals in Cornell's 3-2 win.
Ramsey scored the winner with 1:06 left in a 3-2 victory at Penn and added an assist while playing the full game. She also scored at Bucknell and had assists against Columbia, Brown, Colgate, Princeton and Dartmouth.
Poplyk, a cognitive sciences major, played all 16 games with a career-high 11 starts and 658 minutes. She played all 60 minutes in wins over La Salle and Penn, assisted in the victory at Yale and at Dartmouth, and took four shots, three on goal.
Harvard's Sage Piekarski and Princeton's Pru Lindsey shared the league's Offensive Player of the Year award. Princeton's Ottilie Sykes was Defensive Player of the Year, and Harvard earned Coaching Staff of the Year honors. The All-Ivy second team was expanded because of ties in voting.
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