2023 Field Hockey Roster

Peter Fukumae

12 Bente Baekers

  • Position Forward
  • Height 5-4
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Rijswijk, Netherlands
  • High School Wateringse Veld College
  • Prev School Northwestern

Biography

As a Senior at Northwestern (2022):
  • All-American First Team
  • NFHCA West Player of the Year
  • All-Big Ten First Team
  • 3x Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (8/30, 9/12, 9/17)
  • NFHCA Division I Offensive Player of the Week (9/14)
  • NCAA All-Tournament Team
  • NFHCA All-West First Team
  • NFHCA Collegiate Watch List
  • Ranked second in the nation with 25 goals (tied fourth most in a season in Northwestern history) and 58 points (fifth most in Northwestern history)
  • Scored a career-high four goals in season opener against No. 22 Maine
  • Posted three points against No. 18 Duke with a goal and her first assist of the season (9/2)
  • Became just the second player in Northwestern history to score 75 career goals with her first of two goals against Richmond (9/25)
  • Scored her 80th career goal against Michigan State, becoming the second player in program history and fifth player in Big Ten history to reach that milestone (10/14)
  • Became the country's first player to reach 20 goals in 2022 with a score against No. 21 Ohio State (10/16)

As a Junior at Northwestern (Fall 2021):
  • All-American First Team
  • NFHCA All-West First Team
  • All-Big Ten First Team
  • Led the National Champion Wildcats and ranked second in the conference with 45 points (t-9th most in program history) and 18 goals (t-18th most in program history)
  • Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (9/13)
  • Seventh Wildcat to eclipse 50 career goals
  • Achieved her fifth career hat trick and recorded an assist against No. 25 Maine (9/12)
  • Recorded her second hat trick of the season and assisted another goal against Ball State (10/10)
  • Posted another hat-trick against Michigan State (10/17)
  •  Scored a game-winning goal in overtime against Harvard to send the Wildcats to the National Championship game (11/19)

As a Sophomore at Northwestern (Spring 2021)
  • All-American First Team
  • NFHCA All-West Region First Team
  • Led the team with 15 goals on the season, in addition to five assists
  • Earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors (4/19)
  • Contributed two goals in NCAA win over Delaware (4/30)
  • Recorded the lone goal against Iowa in the NCAA quarterfinals (5/2)

As a Freshman at Virginia (2019)
  • All-American Second Team
  • Earned NFCA First-Team All West Region Honors
  • Named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and First-Team All-Big Ten after leading the conference in shots (99), goals (28) and points (59)
  • Ranked third in the nation in goals per game and points per game
  • Her 28 goals scored in a season are tied for second-most in program history and the most ever scored by a Wildcat rookie
  • Received six Big Ten weekly honors, named Freshman of the Week five times and Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week once
  • Notched four hat tricks, including back to-back in victories at No. 12 Ohio State (9/20) and Miami (9/22), then against Kent State (10/20), and a fourth in the Big Ten Tournament first round win over Rutgers (11/17)

High School/Club
  • Played for HDM, her club team, for 13 years
  • The squad won the 2015 and 2018 Indoor National Championships

Personal
  • Daughter of Ann and Fred Baekers
  • Born in Rijswijk, South-Holland, Netherlands

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