Cornell University Athletics

PRIOR TO CORNELL
Pausz was a three-year letter winner and two-year captain at Point Pleasant Borough HS. ... earned first team all-state honors as a senior in 2025 ... named Shore Conference Player of the Year in 2025 ... selected to the Longstreth Senior All-American Game ... earned MAX Field Hockey First Team All-Region and NFHCA High School Second Team Regional All-American recognition in 2025 ... named first team All-Group II and First Team All-Shore Conference in 2024 and 2025 ... two-time first team All A-South Division honoree (2024, 2025) ... two-time Defensive Player of the Year by the Ocean Star (2024, 2025) ... named team co-MVP in 2025 ... placed on the NFHCA High School Watchlist and the MAX Field Hockey New Jersey Region Player to Watch list in both 2024 and 2025 ... helped lead Point Pleasant Borough to South Jersey Group II Sectional Championships in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, Shore Conference titles in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and A-South championships in 2022, 2023 and 2025 ... earned AAU Junior Olympics Silver Medal in 2022 and U16 Nexus Championship Bronze Medal in 2022 ... played club hockey with Mid-Jersey Knights, winning the Centercourt Indoor League title in 2025 with Top U19 Goalkeeper and all-star honors, and competing in National Indoor Tournaments from 2022 through 2026 ... named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad as a Scholar of Distinction.

PERSONAL
Claire Hope Pausz is the daughter of Tamara and Michael Pausz ... she has a brother and a sister ... her sister, Rachel, ran cross country and indoor and outdoor track at Georgian Court University from 2018-22 ... she is enrolled in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.