{"id":273800,"date":"2026-08-28T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273800\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:52:08","slug":"field-hockey-boasts-three-on-2026-nfhca-collegiate-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273800\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Hockey Boasts Three on 2026 NFHCA Collegiate Watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) announced its 2026 Collegiate Watchlist on Thursday morning, which recognizes field hockey student-athletes who have\u00a0strong potential to receive NFHCA All-Region and All-American consideration this season. The University of Pennsylvania field hockey team is excited to have three student-athletes\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/field-hockey\/roster\/reese-czajkowski\/26232\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26232\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Czajkowski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/field-hockey\/roster\/victoria-manzur\/26236\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26236\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Manzur<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/field-hockey\/roster\/riley-thomson\/24527\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24527\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Thomson<\/a>\u2014receive this recognition.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCzajkowski comes to University City this season from Bucknell, where she was named a Second-Team All-Patriot League honoree as a sophomore. She finished last season with the Bison ranked second on the team with 10 goals and 22 points, and\u00a047th in the nation in goals per game (0.59).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nManzur joins the program\u00a0in 2026 as a freshman from Mareil-Marly, France, where she\u00a0played more than 30 international matches with the French national team. Most recently, she won the Championnat de France Elite Division in 2025, and claimed titles at the Championnat de France in 2020, 2022, and 2024 at the U16 and U19 levels.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThomson enters her junior season having played in all 16 games for the Quakers in both the 2025 and 2024 seasons. During the 2025 campaign, she recorded one goal and four assists for six points, and in the offseason was selected to compete with the Scotland U21 Junior World Cup team.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Quakers kick off the 2026 season September 4 at North Carolina.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the latest on Penn field hockey, follow @PennFieldHockey on X and on Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) announced its 2026 Collegiate Watchlist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-273800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}