2023 Field Hockey Roster
Roster
Celina Riccardo
- Position:
- Midfield
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- High School:
- Downingtown West
- Hometown:
- Downingtown, Pa.
2023: Earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors … Academic All-Big Ten honoree … Voted team captain … Preseason All-Big Ten … Voted team MVP … Started all 16 games … Finished the season with a career-high 46 shot attempts, while adding two goals … Ranked fourth on the team in total points (5) … Scored her first goal of the season on a penalty shot in the 3-1 loss to Rutgers (10/15) … Picked up her second goal in the 2-1 loss against Miami (OH) (10/22) … Grabbed an assist in the season-finale 4-0 victory over Ball State (10/29).
2022: NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad ... Academic All-Big Ten selection and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Played and started in all 18 games … Finished the season with a career-high in points (10) off two goals and a career-high six assists … Had an assist in the 5-2 win over UC Davis (9/2) … Had two assists in a 7-2 loss at Maryland (9/25) … Had two assists in a 5-3 victory at Ball State (10/9) … Had an assist against Northwestern (10/14) … Scored her first goal of the season with the game-winning goal in overtime against Indiana (10/16) … Had a goal in a 3-2 victory at Central Michigan (10/18).
2021: Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten selection … NFHCA National Academic Squad … Selected to participate in the 2022 Senior Nexus Championship (NXC) in Virginia Beach … Played and started all 15 games in the Spartan backfield.
2019: Defender who saw action in all 18 games .. Led all freshmen in starts with 17 ... Tallied her lone assist of the season on a break away pass to Lia Sinisi in a 3-1 win over Ball State (9/22) in East Lansing .. Registered eight shots on the season, including seven shots on goal ... Finished with three shots on goal in Big Ten play ... Awarded Rookie of the Year award at team’s Award Banquet.
Prior to MSU: Named to All-Conference for four years at Downingtown West High School ... Named All-Area for all four years ... Honored as First Team All-State as a senior ... Four-time conference champion ... Second Team All-Chesmont as a freshman ... First Team All-Chesmont as a sophomore, junior and senior ... State Runner-up as a junior with a 25-1 team record ... Member of WC Eagles Field Hockey Club for 11 years ... Ranked as a Top 50 recruit by MAX Field Hockey.
Personal: Daughter of Janet and Jeff Riccardo ... Born on October 18, 2000 in Downingtown, Pa. ... Has four sisters, Romea, Ciana, Rosina and Silvana, and three brothers, Bronzo, Chase and Landry ... Her sisters Romea and Ciana play field hockey at North Carolina ... Her mother played lacrosse at West Chester ... Her father coached field hockey for 28 years ... Communication major.
