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2024 Field Hockey Roster

Eldon Lindsay/Cornell Athletics
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Eldon Lindsay/Cornell Athletics

18 Olivia Friedberg

  • Position Midfield
  • Height 5-2
  • Class Senior
  • High School Rye Country Day School (N.Y.)
  • Hometown Old Greenwich, Conn.

Biography

2024 l FIFTH-YEAR SENIOR SEASON
Appeared in 15 games with 13 starts ... ended the season with a goal and two assists for four points ... netted the game-winning goal against Dartmouth ... credited with assists against UAlbany and Colgate ... put four shots on cage in a win over La Salle.

2023 l SENIOR SEASON
Honorable mention All-Ivy League selection ... scored a pair of goals and assisted on three others for seven points ... started 14 of the team's 17 games ... tallied goals in wins over Dartmouth and Lehigh ... assisted on scores against nationally-ranked Ivy foes Princeton and Harvard, in addition to Colgate.

2022 l JUNIOR SEASON
Appeared in all 17 games, starting 16 ... scored against Bucknell (10/2).

2021 l SOPHOMORE SEASON
Played in all 17 games and started 11 ... scored once against Columbia (Oct. 2) and twice against Brown (10/23), all on tipped shots ... her second goal of the game against Brown came in double overtime as she netted the game winner to pass the Bears, 4-3.  

2020 l FRESHMAN SEASON
Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PRIOR TO CORNELL
Four-time NYSAIS League Champions (2016, 17, 18, 19); finalist (2015) ... named a Fairchester Athletic Association All-League All-Star five times (2015-19) ... also named a New England Private School Athletic Association All-Star three times (2017-19) ... featured in USA Today’s “11 Players to Watch” (2018) and “22 Players to Watch” (2019) articles ... team captain (2019) ... served as a USA Field Hockey Futures Championship representative on the New York State team (2016, 17, 18) ... also played field hockey for the AGH Field Hockey Club ... also played ice hockey: league champions (2016, 19, 20), team captain (2019, 20), MVP (2020), Greenwich Skating Achievement Award (2015) ... also played golf: USA National Junior Golf Team - Macabi Games, Israel - Team Silver medal (2017).

PERSONAL
Olivia Marie Friedberg is the daughter of Dan and Lynn Friedberg ... has two siblings, a younger brother, Henry, and a twin sister, Elizabeth, who is also on the Cornell field hockey team ... father, Dan, graduated from Cornell’s graduate school of management ... enrolled in the SC Johnson College of Business’ School of Hotel Administration.
 

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Historical Player Information

  • 18

    2020-21Freshman

    Forward
    5'2"
    18
  • 18

    2021-22Sophomore

    Forward
    5'2"
    18
  • 18

    2022-23Junior

    Midfield/Forward
    5'2"
    18
  • 18

    2023-24Senior

    Midfield/Forward
    5'2"
    18
  • 18

    2024-25Senior

    Midfield
    5'2"
    18