2025 Field Hockey Roster
Zimmer, Maddie
Jersey Number 8
Maddie Zimmer
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Hershey High School
- Hometown:
- Hershey, Pennsylvania
Bio
Awards:
- 2024 NFHCA Player of the Year
- 2024 NFHCA All-Senior Team
- 3x NFHCA First Team All-American (2021, 2022, 2024)
- NFHCA Third Team All-American (2020-21)
- 4x NFHCA All-West First Team (2020-21, 2021, 2022,2024)
- 4x First Team All-Big Ten (2020-21, 2021,2022, 2024)
- Big Ten Freshman of the Year (2020-21)
- 2x NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2021, 2024)
- 2x NCAA All-Tournament Team (2021,2024)
- Big Ten Freshman of the Week (3/1/21)
- 2x Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2022, 2023)
- 4x Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- 4x NFHCA National Academic Squad (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (10/28/2024)
- B1G All-Tournament Team (2024)
Career Highs:
- Goals: 2 (3x- last vs. Saint Joseph's, 11/24/24)
- Assists: 2 (3x - last vs. Richmond, 8/31/25)
- Points: 5 (2x, last vs. Saint Joseph's, 11/24/24)
- Shots: 9 (at Penn, 9/16/22)
- Shots on Goal: 6 (at Penn, 9/16/22)
2024
- Fifth in the Big Ten with 32 points (10 Goals, 12 Assists)
- Ranked 39 th in Division I with 1.33 points per game
- Tied for 26 th in Division I with .5 assists per game
- Started in all 24 games for Northwestern's National Championship season
- Rallied two goals, one assist, and five shots with three on goal in 6-1 win over UMass (9/1)
- Scored game winning goal in the 2-0 victory against No. 5 Duke (9/6)
- Notched an assist for the game winning goal and fired four shots in a 1-0 win vs. No. 17 Boston College (9/8)
- Scored a goal and tallied two shots on goal in a 5-0 win over No. 4 Iowa (9/20)
- Fired a shot on goal in a 3-2 win against No. 16 Princeton (9/29)
- Tallied assist and fired two shots with one on goal in 4-0 win over Rutgers (10/4)
- Contributed a goal and an assist and fired four shots with all four on goal in 7-2 win vs. No. 19 Penn State (10/6)
- Scored a goal in 3-2 win against No. 9 Harvard (10/13)
- Tallied an assist and two shots on goal in 11-1 win over UC Davis (10/20)
- Contributed an assist in 2-1 overtime victory at No. 7 Michigan (10/25)
- Rallied a goal and an assist in 5-0 win at Michigan State (10/27)
- Fired two shots on goal in 2-1 win over No. 4 Ohio State (11/1)
- Scored a goal in 2-0 win over Rutgers (11/8)
- Contributed two assists and fired three shots with two on goal in 9-2 win against Miami (OH) (11/15)
- Tallied an assist for the game-winning goal to advance to the Final Four in 3-2 overtime victory against No. 8 Virginia (11/17)
- Recorded an assist for the game-winning goal in 1-0 win over No. 14 UMass to advance to the National Championship (11/22)
- Scored two goals and contributed an assist in dominant 5-0 National Championship victory over No. 3 Saint Joseph's (11/24)
2023:
- Olympic Redshirt
2022:
- All-American First Team
- All-Big Ten First Team
- NFHCA All-West First Team
- NFHCA Collegiate Watch List
- Scored two goals and recorded an assist while starting 23 games as a junior on Northwestern's campaign back to the national championship
- Started and fired a shot in the season opener against No. 22 Maine (2/28)
- Fired three shots, including one on goal, against No. 25 UMass (8/29)
- Scored her first goal of the season and fired three shots on goal at No. 14 Boston College (9/4)
- Scored a brilliant solo goal at Penn, dribbling from midfield to the center circle for the score (9/16) ... Also set career highs with nine shots and six shots on goal
- Fired a shot in the win over Princeton (9/18)
- Fired four shots, including one on goal, against No. 5 Iowa (9/23)
- Unleashed two shots on goal against Richmond (9/25)
- Fired four shots, including two on goal, in the overtime win against No. 6 Penn State (9/30)
- Fired five shots, includinig one on goal, in the double-overtime win against No. 6 Michigan (10/21)
- Recorded her first assist of the season on the opening goal in the Big Ten semifinals against No. 2 Maryland (11/4)
- Fired four shots, including two on goal, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against No. 25 Miami (OH) (11/11)
- Converted a shot in the penalty shootout against No. 11 Iowa in the NCAA quarterfinals (11/13)
- Fired a shot on goal in the NCAA Final Four against No. 2 Maryland (11/18)
2021:
- First Team All-Big Ten
- Named NCAA Tournament Most Valuable Player after leading Northwestern to a National Championship
- Finished fourth on the team with nine goals along with three assists
- Set a new career high with two assists against No. 12 Duke (9/3)
- Scored her first goal of the season against No. 23 Kent State (9/10)
- Contributed a goal and an assist against California (9/19)
- Scored in the win over No. 7 Maryland (9/30)
- Found the back of the net with a goal against Ball State (10/10)
- Added another goal against Ohio State (10/15)
- Posted two goals against Indiana in senior day win (10/31)
- Sealed first round win over UNC in the NCAA tournament with fastbreak goal on an empty net (11/12)
- Scored one of the 'Cats two goals in the NCAA Championship against Liberty (11/21)
2020-21:
- Led all first-years with four goals and one assist on the season
- Earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year and First Team All Big-Ten honors (4/19)
- Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week after helping the Wildcats start the season 2-0 (3/1)
- Registered a game-high five shots and found a goal against Michigan State (2/27)
- Grabbed a goal in the first game against Indiana (3/21) and registered her first career assist in the second game against Indiana (3/14)
- Sent home the game winner against Michigan (3/22)
- Added a goal against Delaware (4/30)
High School:
- Member of USA Under-21 Field Hockey National Team
- Earned first cap for USA Senior Women's Field Hockey National Team in 2019
- Former captain of USA Under-17 Field Hockey National Team
- 2018 Pennsylvania 3A State Champs
- Four-year letter winner in field hockey and lacrosse
- Named top 10 player in class of 2020 by Max Field Hockey
- Three-time Max Field Hockey All-American
- Named to 2020 Max Field Hockey All-American watchlist
- 2020 Max Field Hockey Preseason Player of the Year for Pennsylvania
- 2019 Mid-Penn Player of the Year
- First team NFHCA All-American
- Named to PA All-State in her first three years of high school
- Also named US Lacrosse All-American her junior year
Personal:
- Mother Erin was All-American in Field Hockey and Lacrosse at the College of William and Mary
- Father Scott was All-American in Soccer at University of Richmond
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Thursday, September 04
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Wednesday, April 30
Official Trailer - '50+ Years in the Making' | The Foundation: Northwestern Field Hockey
Friday, April 25
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