Hamden’s Craft Earns Northeast 10 Year-End Honors

HAMDEN, CT — Hamden’s Brianna Craft, a senior on the Southern Connecticut State University field hockey team, has been tabbed with year-end honors from the Northeast 10 conference after completing her final season as an Owl.

Craft earns her first set of year-end conference honors being named Second Team All-Conference in the final season of her collegiate career. She will go on record as one of the best goalkeepers in Southern Connecticut field hockey program history to date and arguably one of the best in NE10 history, SCSU officials said in a news release. Read more from SCSU below:

In her four years as a starter for the Owls, Craft captained the team for both the 2018 and 2019 season, she holds multiple program, conference and now national records. This season she collected her fourth-straight 200-plus save season finishing the year first in the conference in saves with 200 and fifth in save percentage (.791). She also garnered four NE10 Weekly Honor Roll selections.

Capping her career, Craft holds the NE10 conference record for career saves and the NCAA Division II career saves record. In addition, she holds SCSU program records for career saves, single-season saves and the single-game saves record. She is also the only goalkeeper in SCSU field hockey program history to record 200 or more saves in each of her four seasons as an Owl. Four of six feats were broken or re-broken by Craft over the course of 2019 season.

She appeared in 71 games and more than 4,000 minutes in goal for the Owls and has amassed 926 career saves.

Record-Holding Categories

SCSU Program

Career Saves: 2016-2019 – Craft's 926 saves over four years is the SCSU career record, which was previously held by Audrey Dolloff from 2012-2015 when she had 774.

Single-Season Saves: 2017 – Craft broke the single-season record during the 2017 season when she collected 266 total saves. The previous record was Audrey Dolloff who had 236 saves.

Single-Game Saves: Sept. 28, 2019 – Craft's 29-save performance against nationally-ranked Assumption tops the program record and her career-high by two saves. Both of those records were set on September 12, 2017 when she made 27 against LIU-Post.

Saves by Season – Only goalkeeper in SCSU history to have four-consecutive 200+ save seasons

2016 – 207 saves

2017 – 266 saves

2018 – 253 saves

2019 – 200 saves

Northeast 10 Conference

Career Saves: 2018—Craft's 253 during the 2018 season put her at 726 career saves, which broke a 20-year old conference record for career saves by 31 saves. The previous record was set by American International College's Erin Smith who had 695 saves between 1996-1999.

NCAA Division II

Career Saves: Oct. 15, 2019 –Craft's 12 saves against Pace put her at 867 career saves and broke the NCAA Division II field hockey career saves record previously set by Heather Long of Mansfield University between 2000-03 when she had 860.