The No. 1-ranked Shippensburg University field hockey team scored three goals in the first eight minutes Sunday to claim its sixth national championship in school history, defeating No. 3 West Chester by a 3-0 margin in the 2021 NCAA Division II Championship Game at Millersville University’s Chryst Field at Biemesderfer Stadium.Shippensburg (20-0) achieved its first undefeated season in the NCAA era (1980-present) and first since an 11-0-2 campaign in 1977. SU has now won 11 consecutive NCAA Tournament games dating back to 2016, including eight straight under fifth-year head coach Tara Zollinger.“I’d like to congratulate West Chester on a terrific season, and I’d like to congratulate our team, and our leadership group from our senior class who made a decision at the end of our last season that they were going to do everything in their power to make the adjustments that we needed to make to bring the national championship home to Shippensburg,” Zollinger said.With Sunday’s historic victory, Shippensburg became the first team to win a national championship with an undefeated record since 2010 (Massachusetts Lowell, 24-0) and the first team to win the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship and the NCAA Division II National Championship in the same season since the 2015 East Stroudsburg Warriors. Read More>
Full story, victory video, and photo galleries online at: UNDEFEATED NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: Field Hockey completes perfect season with 3-0 win over West Chester – Shippensburg University Athletics (shipraiders.com)
