PHILADELPHIA - After qualifying for the BIG EAST Tournament for the first time since 2016, the Temple field hockey team will face the No. 1 seed UConn Thursday afternoon in the semifinal round of the tournament.
Scouting Temple
> The Owls are 8-9 after the conclusion of the regular season, improving on its 2019 regular-season record of 7-10.
> Temple is on a three-game winning streak, sweeping Villanova and topping La Salle 4-0 to close out the regular season.
> Junior Nienke Oerlemans and graduate student Veronika Novakova lead the team with four goals each, while Taylor Alba (3), Kerrie Lorenz (2), and Cassie Romanczuk (2) round out the multiple-goal scorers.