Wake Forest Athletics
Field Hockey Adds Iowa Transfer Jessy Silfer
5/7/2015 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
By Erika Carrubba, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeHockey)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Head coach Jennifer Averill announced the addition of Jessy Silfer to the Wake Forest field hockey team for the 2015 season. Silfer joins the Demon Deacons after two seasons at Iowa.
With SIlfer, Wake Forest will have a total of seven newcomers on the 2015 roster. She joins Emily Adamson, Megan Anderson, Taylor Brennan, Brittany Dickinson, Jule Grashoff and Cat O'Connor who were announced earlier in the year.
The recruiting class will join a talented program that went 14-7 last season, winning the program's fourth ACC Championship, their first since 2006, and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, the 14th appearance in school history.
Jessy Silfer - Defender - Cazenovia, N.Y. - Cazenovia High School (Iowa)
Played two seasons at Iowa ... Started all 39 games in two seasons at Iowa ... Scored one career goal ... Earned one Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor in 2013 ... Twice named to NFHCA National Academic Squad and Gladiator SGI/NFHCA Division I Scholar of Distinction ... Selected to compete in 2014 U.S. U21 Championship ... Prior to Iowa served as 2012 team captain for Cazenovia Central High School, earning the Most Outstanding Player Award and NFHCA Regional All-America honors... named the 2011 Cazenovia Defensive MVP... led her team to two New York State Class C Field Hockey championships and three New York State Section III Class C titles... two-time all-state, two-time New York State all-star team, two-time All-Central New York team, and two-time Onodaga High School League first team selection... four-year Scholar Athlete... three-year National Honor Society member... 2012 U.S. Lacrosse High School Academic All-American team honoree
