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Jill Witmer - Wikipedia

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Jill Witmer

Personal information

Born

October 1, 1991 (age 33)
Lancaster, United States

Height

5 ft 2 in (157 cm)

Weight

115 lb (52 kg)

Playing position

Forward^[1]

Club information

Current club

Penn Lanco

2010–2013

Maryland Terrapins

National team

Years

Team

Caps

Goals

2013–

United States

143

Medal record

Pan American Cup

	2017 Lancaster

Jill Witmer (born October 1, 1991) is an American field hockey player. Witmer was named to the U.S. National Team in 2013 and was named to the U.S. Olympic Team in 2016.

Early life

Witmer was born on October 1, 1991, to parents Lew and Judy Witmer.^[2]^[3] Witmer grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with four siblings.^[3] She began playing field hockey at the urging of her parents. The Witmer family had built a gym for field hockey on their farm, nicknamed "the Coop."^[4] Witmer joined her first field hockey team in eighth grade. She then played for the local high school field hockey team Penn Manor even though she was home schooled.^[2]^[4] The Penn Manor team won the state championship Jill's junior year of high school.^[5]

College player

Witmer attended the University of Maryland where she played field hockey from 2010 to 2013. During her time at Maryland, the team won two national titles, in 2010 and 2011. Witmer was personally honored as a four-time NFHCA All-American and the 2013 ACC Player of the year. Witmer is among the highest scorers in the school's history, as of 2016 she is No. 4 in points with 163 and is No. 5 in goals at 67.^[6]

U.S. National Team

Witmer was named to the U.S. National Field Hockey team in the summer of 2013 while still a student at University of Maryland.^[5] Shortly after signing with the team, Witmer signed a sponsorship deal with STX, a sporting good company that sells field hockey equipment.^[7] She was part of the 2016 U.S. National Field Hockey team when the team placed third at the Champion's Trophy in London.^[6] She was then named to the U.S. Olympic team for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic games.^[1]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Pugliese, Diana (July 1, 2016). "Penn Manor's Jill Witmer, Warwick's Alyssa Manley named to US Olympic field hockey roster". Lancaster Online. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Jill Witmer Field Hockey". Team USA. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Pugliese, Diana (July 2, 2016). "Jill Witmer's family hoping to join their new Olympian in Rio". Lancaster Online. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Parish, Christopher (November 25, 2009). "Another title would add to Witmer's legend". ESPN Rise, Greater Philadelphia (November). Retrieved July 6, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Bohr, David (December 13, 2013). "Getting to know Team USA field hockey: Jill Witmer". Penn Live. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Maryland Athletics (July 1, 2016). "FORMER TERPS NAMED TO U.S. OLYMPIC ROSTER". University of Maryland. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
^ Zuk, Gina. "STX Signs USA Field Hockey Player Jill Witmer" (PDF). STX. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 25, 2017. Retrieved July 6, 2016.

External links

Jill Witmer at Olympedia
Jill Witmer at Team USA
Jill Witmer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

v t e U.S. women's national field hockey team — Olympics 2016
Players	Stefanie Fee • Melissa González • Kelsey Kolojejchick • Rachel Dawson • Michelle Vittese • Jill Witmer • Julia Reinprecht • Katie Reinprecht • Katie O'Donnell • Michelle Kasold • Katelyn Falgowski • Kathleen Sharkey • Lauren Crandall • Caitlin Van Sickle • Alyssa Manley • Jackie Briggs (GK)
Reserves	Paige Selenski • Alesha Widdall (GK)
Coach	Craig Parnham

v t e United States squad – 2018 Hockey World Cup – 14th place
1 Matson 2 Fee 5 González 9 M. Vittese 10 Funk 12 Magadan 13 Hoffman 14 Young 19 Moyer 20 Froede 21 Woods 22 Blazing 23 T. Vittese 24 Sharkey 26 Paolino 28 Van Sickle 29 Manley 31 Briggs Coach: Schopman

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