Danbury, CT – The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) has announced that Hofstra University sophomore Simca Schoen has been named Corvias ECAC Division I Field Hockey Defensive Player of the Week for the week ending September 27.

It is Schoen's second honor of the week after being named the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week on Tuesday.

Schoen, a native of Hamburg, Germany, tallied three goals and four assists in the Pride's three victories last week that boosted the Hofstra win streak to six games.

The 2014 CAA Rookie of the Year and All-CAA second team selection assisted on Hofstra's third goal of the game, by Claudia Marin Samper, in the Pride's 3-2 win at Fairfield on September 23.

Two days later at home against Quinnipiac, Simca recorded a career-high six points and tied her previous bests of two goals and two assists to lead the Pride to a 6-3 victory over the Bobcats. She tallied the second and fourth Hofstra goals of the contest and assisted on goals by junior Colby Hussong and Marin Samper.

In the final Pride contest of the week on Sunday, Schoen opened the scoring just 5:04 into the game and assisted on the second goal of the contest, by fellow German Charlotte Loehr, in Hofstra's 4-1 victory over Yale.

Schoen now has six goals and six assists on the season. 
 
Hofstra, which is ranked 21st in the first NCAA Division I RPI of the 2015 season, returns to action on Friday, October 2 when the Pride host the Pioneers of Sacred Heart University at 3 p.m.
 
The ECAC is the nation's largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with more than 300 Divisions I, II, and III colleges and universities. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service organization, sponsors nearly 100 championships in 37 men and women's sports and assigns more than 4,400 officials in 12 sports. The ECAC also administers nine affiliate sports organizations and six playing leagues, and through the public relations arm of the conference, more than 5,000 student-athletes in 25 sports are recognized annually. Finally, the ECAC serves as the primary conference for select members in the sports of men and women's ice hockey and men's lacrosse.