Amber Youtz

Katie Briglia

F/D

/ Field Hockey

Photo by: Marj Light

Photo by: Ken Light

Photo by: Joseph V. Labolito/Temple University

Photo by: Ken Light

Photo by: Bill Strockbine

Photo by: Joseph V. Labolito/Temple University

Photo by: Mitchell Leff

Photo by: Paige Ozaroski

Position:
F/M
Height:
5-1
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Dauphin, Pa.

2014: Named Temple's first NFHCA First Team All-American in 22 years to cap an outstanding career for the nationally ranked Owls...Other senior year honors included being named to the NFHCA All-Region First Team, being named the BIG EAST and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year, earning BIG EAST First Team honors, BIG EAST All-Tournament Team honors and Preseason All-BIG EAST honors...Finished the season ranked second in the nation in both goals and points per game, scoring 27 goals and totaling 62 points...Her 69 career goals rank third all-time at Temple, while her 165 career points rank fourth and her 27 assists rank eighth...Over the course of the 2014 season, was the active NCAA Division I career leader in both goals and points...Recorded four hat tricks in 2014...Three-time BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week...Scored in 15 of Temple's 21 games...In a 2-0 week with 4-0 shutouts against both Georgetown and Lafayette, scored four of the Owls' goals and assisted on the other four...Honored as Temple's standout at the Philadelphia Sportswriters' Association Dinner in January, 2015.

2013: Named to the Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-America Second Team...Earned All-Region First Team honors...Led Division I for much of the season in goals per game and points per game...Named to the All-BIG EAST First Team, the Preseason All-BIG EAST Team and the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team...Twice named the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week...Finished the season with 16 goals and seven assists for 39 total points, leading the team and the conference with 2.44 points per game...Played and started in 16 games, missing four games due to a forearm injury suffered at Villanova (Sept. 20)...Scored four goals and recorded two assists in a 6-0 shutout vs. Monmouth (Sept. 14), tallying 10 total points which tied for the most in a single game by any player in NCAA Division I for the 2013 season...Recorded her fourth career hat trick in a 3-1 win vs. Providence (Oct. 11) in her first game back from injury...Scored multiple goals in five games...Scored the game-winner in overtime vs. Richmond (Sept. 8)...Concluded her junior season with 103 career points to tie for fifth all-time in program history, and her 42 career goals rank seventh all-time...Named to Temple's Director's Honor Roll for a second time for having a GPA above 3.0.

2012: Named the 2012 Atlantic 10 Offensive Player of the Year after leading the conference with 22 goals and 54 total points...Tabbed as an All-American Third Team selection by Synapse Sports...Named to the Longstretch/NFHCA Division I All-Region Second Team...A-10 First Team honoree...Named to the A-10 All-Tournament Team...Recorded 54 points to rank fifth all-time in a single season in program history, while her 22 goals rank sixth all-time in a single season in program history...Finished the season ranked seventh among all players in NCAA Division I in both goals per game and points per game...Started all 21 games...Ranked second on the team with 10 assists...Led the team with four game-winning goals...Earned two A-10 Player of the Week awards...Scored back-to-back hat tricks in wins vs. Colgate (Sept. 22) and at Bucknell (Sept. 23), becoming the first Temple player to do so since Hall-of-Famer Jane Catanzaro in 1990...Scored the game-winner in a 2-1 win at La Salle on Oct. 12...Scored the overtime game-winner in a 4-3 win vs. Lock Haven after suffering a broken nose earlier in the contest.

2011: Named to the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team...Started in all 22 games in her debut season, one of two freshmen to do so...Scored four goals to rank third on the team, also adding two assists for 10 total points...Scored the game-winning goal in a 4-0 win vs. UMass in the A-10 Tournament quarterfinals on Nov. 4...Scored in back-to-back road games at American and Saint Joseph's in early October...Named to Temple's Director's Honor Roll for having a GPA above 3.0.

High School: Four-year varsity letterwinner at Central Dauphin...Named the Mid Penn Player of the Year as a senior...First team all-state selection after earning second team all-state honors as a junior...Selected for the USFHA National Futures Tournament in 2010 and Futures Elite...Led her Key State Club team to win their NIT pool and their National Festival pool as junior...Two-time team MVP and was team captain as a senior...Also lettered for four years in lacrosse, earning first-team all-star honors.

Personal: Majoring in kinesiology...Uncle wrestled for Bloomsburg University and brother, Clayton, wrestles for Kutztown.