2025 Field Hockey Roster
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Jersey Number 14
Lilian Knorr
- Position:
- Midfield
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem
- Hometown:
- Berlin, Germany
2025 (Sophomore): Appeared in 15 games and started in 14 games for MSU… Finished with one goal, one assist, three points, 14 shots and eight shots on goal… Recorded her only assist of the season and two shots against Merrimack (9/13). Notched her only goal of the season in an 5-1 win over Ball State (10/14).
2024 (Freshman): NFHCA National Academic Squad honors as well as Scholar of Distinction kudos … Started all 18 games in the Spartan midfield ... Was tied for the team’s top-scoring first-year player with four goals and two assists (10 points) ... Ranked second on the team overall in goals and fourth in points... Opened her MSU career with a pair of assists at UC-Davis (8/30) ... Scored her first career goal at home against Colgate (9/15) ... Scored the game-winner in a 2OT victory at Ball State (9/29) ... Delivered MSU’s lone goal in a 3-1 decision against Maryland (10/11) ... Scored MSU’s second goal in a road victory at Central Michigan (10/13).
Prior to MSU: An eight-time Berlin champion and six-time East German Champion with her club, also winning three North-Eastern German titles … Captured indoor German championships in 2018 and 2022 … Won a German championship with her Berlin state selection team in 2019 … Also played one year at Napier Girls High School in New Zealand.
Personal: Daughter of Martina Muengersdorf and Thomas Knorr … Has one brother, Moritz … Graduated from Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem in 2023 … Grandfather, Ralph Knorr, was the field hockey captain at the Berlin hockey club and captured a German championship … Earned a biology award for outstanding performance and engagement … Lists Usain Bolt as her favorite professional athlete.
2024 (Freshman): NFHCA National Academic Squad honors as well as Scholar of Distinction kudos … Started all 18 games in the Spartan midfield ... Was tied for the team’s top-scoring first-year player with four goals and two assists (10 points) ... Ranked second on the team overall in goals and fourth in points... Opened her MSU career with a pair of assists at UC-Davis (8/30) ... Scored her first career goal at home against Colgate (9/15) ... Scored the game-winner in a 2OT victory at Ball State (9/29) ... Delivered MSU’s lone goal in a 3-1 decision against Maryland (10/11) ... Scored MSU’s second goal in a road victory at Central Michigan (10/13).
Prior to MSU: An eight-time Berlin champion and six-time East German Champion with her club, also winning three North-Eastern German titles … Captured indoor German championships in 2018 and 2022 … Won a German championship with her Berlin state selection team in 2019 … Also played one year at Napier Girls High School in New Zealand.
Personal: Daughter of Martina Muengersdorf and Thomas Knorr … Has one brother, Moritz … Graduated from Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem in 2023 … Grandfather, Ralph Knorr, was the field hockey captain at the Berlin hockey club and captured a German championship … Earned a biology award for outstanding performance and engagement … Lists Usain Bolt as her favorite professional athlete.
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