Puck Pentenga

Puck Pentenga, Kirsten Mansfield and Eva van Agt

Photo by: S. J. Carrera, Inc.

Photo by: S. J. Carrera, Inc.

Position:
M
Height:
5-5
Class:
Senior
High School:
Marnix College
Hometown:
Ede, The Netherlands

2018: Earned a First Team All-Big Ten selection ... Also finished on the First Team NFHCA All-West Region ... Finished her career with the third-most assists in program history (43) ... Started all 19 games and ended the year with 11 goals and 13 assists ... Assisted on all 3 goals in 3-2 win over Stanford (8/26) ... Tallied points in 5 straight games, including scoring 2 goals in a 3-2 defeat of Boston College (9/2), notching a goal and an assist in a 4-2 victory versus Kent State (9/4), and assisting on the game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over Indiana (9/14) ... Assisted on another game-winner in a 2-0 victory versus Iowa (9/21), followed by assisting on both goals in a 2-0 win against California (9/23) ... Had a goal and an assist in a 2-0 defeat of Michigan State (9/30) ... Scored the team's only goal against Ohio State (10/5) ... Piled up two goals and two assists against Ball State (10/21) ... Recorded an sissts in her final game against Michigan (10/28) ... Academic All-Big Ten.

2017: First-team All-Big Ten ... First-team NFHCA All-West Region ...Third-team NFHCA All-American ... Started all 22 games ... Ranked first on the team in assists (17) and second in goals (11) ... Finished the season with a team-leading four game-winning goals ... Posted a goal and two assists in a victory over Temple (9/8) and followed it up by assisting on both goals in a 2-1 win over Kent State (9/10) ... Collected two assists in 2-0 win vs. No. 15 Louisville (9/19) ... Tallied goal vs No. 3 Penn State (9/22), followed by assists on two goals, including game winner, in victory over No. 10 Maryland (9/24) ... Notched one goal and three assists in 6-0 defeat of Ball State (10/8) ... Scored first career hat trick, with 3 of 5 goals in victory over No. 22 Iowa (10/13), and was subsequently awarded Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week and NFCHA Division I Offensive Player of the Week ... Recorded one goal and two assists in 8-2 defeat of Michigan State (10/22) ... Tallied one goal and assisted on the game-winner in a 4-3 defeat of Rutgers in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament (10/29) ... Scored game-winning goal in overtime in a 3-2 victory over Louisville in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (11/10) ... Academic All-Big Ten.

2016: Started all 21 matches ... Ranked fourth on the team with eight assists ... Posted first goal of the season in a win over Colgate (9/11) ... Notched a goal and two assists in the second half of a victory over No. 4 Penn State (9/23) ... Collected three assists in a victory at Drexel (10/2) ... Academic All-Big Ten.

2015: Appeared in 20 matches with three starts ... Recorded assists in back-to-back wins over Central Michigan (9/12) and UC Davis (9/15) ... Notched first collegiate goal in a win over Iowa (10/2) ... Posted two assists in a comeback win at Ohio (10/25) ... NFHCA National Academic Squad.

High School: Competed on the regional level for MHC Ede for 10 years before playing with Wageningen MHC in 2014-15 ... Started playing and practicing with the first women’s team in the third highest league in 2013 at age 14 ... Scored 14 goals for Wageningen in national competition ... Team qualified for the National Indoor Championships, making it to the 5th/6th place match ... Practiced with the first women’s team, who play in the top league in Wageningen, the Hoofdklasse ... Member of the high school team for six years, helping the team to three regional championships and three national semifinal appearances ... Team earned one silver medal and two 3rd/4th place finishes ... Played for the district team for three years in 2010-2013, representing the top 25 players of the eastern part of The Netherlands ... Also competed in tennis, winning U18 club title in 2010 at age 12.

Personal: Born Puck Hanneke Pentenga ... Daughter of Pieter Jansen and Marian Pentenga ... Mother was an Olympic rower in quadruple sculls, earning a fourth-place finish in Barcelona in 1992 and a seventh-place finish in Seoul in 1988... Majoring in Biomedical Engineering.