Melanie Kreusch

Photo by: Thom Kendall - UMass Athletics

Photo by: Thom Kendall - UMass Athletics

Photo by: Thom Kendall - UMass Athletics

Class:
Sophomore
Height:
5-9
High School:
Institut des Soeurs de Notre Dame
Hometown:
Brussels, Belgium

Photo Gallery: Melanie Kreusch

PRONUNCIATION: kursch

Kreusch With The U.S. National Program: Traveled with the U.S. U19 Team for a week-long training program in Belgium (April 4-11, 2015) ... Selected to the U.S. Young Women's National Championship (June 22-26, 2015) ... Earned a spot at the 2015 U.S. U21 Junior National Camp (June 30 - July 3) following participation in the 2015 Young Women's National Championship ... Invited to the 2016 United States Young Women's National Championship (June 28 - July 3).

2017 - Senior: NFHCA All-America Third Team ... NFHCA Northeast All-Region First Team ... Atlantic 10 Co-Defensive Player of the Year ... Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team ... Scored twice during the 8-3 season-opening victory over Holy Cross (8/25) ... Had an assist in the 2-1 win over Vermont (8/27) ... Posted her second assist of the year during the 2-1 comeback win over No. 16 Boston University (9/10) ... Scored once and dished an assist during the 4-0 win at Davidson (9/15) ... Converted one goal at Lock Haven (9/24) in the 2-1 comeback win and scored twice, including the game-winner, against La Salle (9/29) ... Scored in the 69th minute at No. 9 Northwestern (10/15) to force overtime ... Converted a pair of penalty corners against No. 19 Saint Joseph’s (10/20) ... Scored on a penalty stroke in the regular season finale against Richmond (10/27) ... Assisted on Sophie de Jonge’s game-winning goal in the Atlantic 10 Semifinals against VCU (11/3).

2016 - Junior: NFHCA All-Northeast Region First Team ... Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year ... Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team ... Atlantic 10 Preseason All-Conference ... Earned 13 points through six goals and an assist as a starter at center back in all 22 games ... Also notched a pair of defensive saves ... First goal of the year came against Columbia (9/2), the eventual game-winner ... Tallied twice at UMass Lowell (9/4) and again versus Harvard (9/18) ... Had an assist between those two-goal outings during the win over Saint Louis (9/16) ... Scored once at La Salle (10/23) ... Defensive stops came at VCU (10/7) and at No. 2 Maryland in the NCAA Tournament First Round (11/12).

2015 - Sophomore: Atlantic 10 Championship Most Outstanding Player ... Atlantic 10 All-Tournament Team ... Atlantic 10 All-Conference Second Team ... Atlantic 10 Preseason All-Conference Team ... Produced 25 points via 11 goals and three assists, the most conversions and second-highest points total among Minutewomen ... Made each of her three penalty stroke attempts ... Placed 26 of her 51 shots on-target ... Spread her scoring out across 10 of her 21 appearances ... Tallied a goal on a penalty corner and stopped one shot for a defensive save during the season-opener against New Hampshire (8/29) ... Added conversions in back-to-back games with one each at Boston University (8/30) and Northeastern (9/3) ... Scored on a penalty corner try during the 4-3 win over UMass Lowell in the 2015 Kennedy Cup (9/11) ... Helped on a UMass conversion against Dartmouth (9/13) ... Scored once and had a defensive save against Saint Joseph's (9/18) ... Added her sixth goal of the year versus VCU (10/16) ... Totaled a hat trick against Saint Joseph's (11/6) in the team's 5-2 comeback win during the Atlantic 10 Championship semifinal round ... Factored into each of the three UMass goals scored against Richmond in the shutout win over the Spiders during the Atlantic 10 Championship Game (11/7) with two tallies and an assist on the game-winning goal ... Won Atlantic 10 Championship Most Outstanding Player with 11 points over the two contests (five goals, one assist) ... Helped out on one UMass goal at No. 2 Syracuse during the NCAA Tournament First Round game on Nov. 11.

2014 - Freshman: Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year ... NFHCA Second Team All-Northeast Region ... Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team ... Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team ... Atlantic 10 All-Tournament Team ... ECAC Rookie of the Week (10/22) ... ECAC Rookie of the Week (10/8) ... Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week (10/20) ... Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week (10/6) ... Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week (9/8) ... UMass Co-Athlete of the Week (10/6) ... Led Massachusetts with 24 points earned through 10 goals and four assists ... Was tops among Minutewomen with her double-digit goals total ... Scored the game-winning goals over Maine (9/5), Saint Francis (10/5) and Lock Haven (11/7) ... Ranked tied for third in the A-10 for goals and game-winning goals, tied for fifth in points, seventh in goals per game and ninth in points per game ... Was third during league-only competition in goals (6) and goals per game (0.75) while she ranked fifth for points (13) and points per game (13) ... Started in her first collegiate game when UMass opened its 2014 slate against No. 1 Maryland (8/29) at the Nook in Lancaster, Pa ... Scored the game-winning goal in overtime on Sept. 5 when UMass defeated Maine, 3-2 ... Earned her first collegiate hat trick with three goals during the 3-2 win over Saint Francis (Pa.) on Oct. 5 ... Is the only freshman in available team game-by-game history dating back to the 2001 season with three or more goals in a single game ... Picked up ECAC Rookie of the Week, Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week and UMass Co-Athlete of the Week following her performances against Lock Haven and Saint Francis (Pa.) ... Helped out on one tally when the Minutewomen defeated Saint Joseph's, 3-2 on the road (10/10) for her third consecutive game with at least one point ... Assisted on one goal at Columbia (10/12) ... Secured one goal during the 4-0 victory over Davidson (10/17) ... Earned another assist versus Boston University (10/19) when Lauren Allymohamed scored an ovetime game-winner to seal the 2-1 win ... Scored on a penalty corner against No. 7 Syracuse (11/1) ... Converted a penalty corner for a goal during the 5-1 win over Saint Louis (11/2) ... Scored once and helped out on another UMass goal during the 2-0 shutout of Lock Haven during the Atlantic 10 Tournament Semifinals (11/7) ... Made one defensive save in the Atlantic 10 Championship Game loss at Richmond (11/8).

Before UMass: Started competing in field hockey at age five at Baudouin as part of a boys team ... Won the Lille International Tournament as part of Baudouin Mixed Team in 2007 ... Member of the Flanders Provincial Team from 2008-10 as the squad placed second in 2009 and earned the league championship in 2010 ... Member of the U15 Belgium National Team from 2010-11 and the U18 squad in 2012-13 ... Took second at the European U16 Tournament in Valencia in 2012 ... Played midfield for La Rasante in Belgium's Lady's Honors Division.

Personal: Daughter of Jean Kreusch and Teresa Nehra ... Has one brother, Mathieu ... Dual citizen of the United States and Belgium.

Career Highs & Miscellaneous Statistics
Goals: 3, twice, last at Saint Joseph's (Nov. 6, 2015)
Assists: 1, 13x, last vs. VCU (Nov. 3, 2017)
Points: 6, twice, last at Saint Joseph's (Nov. 6, 2015)
Game-Winning Goals: 7, last vs. La Salle (Sept. 29, 2017)
Multi-Goal Games: 7, last vs. #19 Saint Joseph's (Oct. 20, 2017)
Multi-Point Games: 30, last vs. Richmond (Oct. 27, 2017)
Hat Tricks: 2, last at Saint Joseph's (Nov. 6, 2015)
Defensive Saves: 1, 5x, last at #2 Maryland (Nov. 12, 2016)