It’s been an eventful and unpredictable field hockey season here at TopOfTheCircle.com. You have had a preseason Top 10 bounce back from an unexpected midseason defeat, a cadre of private-school teams all beating each other, and more teams which have won their first major trophies this season, whether a sectional or a state final.
Leading the line in our Top 10 is a dominant, skilled, and smart Uxbridge (Mass.) side which not only won its fifth straight state championship, but won each and every game on its schedule by at least three. Too, the Spartans beat all three 2024 state champions (Andover, Watertown, and Somerset-Berkeley) by a combined score of 18-1. That is a performance which is worthy of the likes of Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) during that team’s glory years.
I invite you to watch some of Uxbridge’s work, especially, the semifinal game against Watertown (and if you don’t yet have the NFHS Network, you should). In that game, the team doesn’t just pass and shoot the ball, they craft possessions, plays, and goals. They’re that good.
This is the last Top 10 of the regular season; this will form the basis of our final Top 50 which will be published in December. The Top 10 here are not guaranteed to be in the same order in the Top 50.
This week’s honorary RightToRightIsRight.com No. 11 Team of the Week is Husson College. The Eagles, coached by Kaitlin Dolloff, won the 2025 ECAC Championship with a 4-1 win over Goucher College. It is the program’s first major trophy since the program began in 1997.
1. Uxbridge (Mass.) 23-0
Season complete: The Spartans won their fifth straight state championship with a 3-0 win over Sandwich (Mass.) and ascends into the firmament of all-time quality sides thanks to its senior class
2. Villanova Academy of Notre Dame de Namur (Pa.) 22-1
Season complete: Beat Newtown Square Episcopal Academy (Pa.) 4-2 in the PAISAA final; the lone loss for the Irish was a 1-0 defeat at Pottstown Hill School (Pa.)
3. Louisville Sacred Heart (Ky.) 28-0-1
Season complete: The Valkyries won KHSAA state final with a 3-1 win over The Christian Academy of Louisville (Ky.) in a dominating season which saw them beat state champions from Illinois, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during their campaign
4. Emmaus (Pa.) 27-1
Season complete: The Hornets won their 16th PIAA championship with a 3-2 win over Doylestown Central Bucks West (Pa.); the only loss Emmaus had this season was against Downingtown (Pa.) West
5. Newtown Square Episcopal Academy (Pa.) 19-3
Season complete: Episcopal had an amazing season end in the PAISAA final; the lone losses that EA had were to Academy of Notre Dame
6. Malvern Villa Maria (Pa.) 22-3
Season complete: The Hurricanes gave Emmaus (Pa.) all they could handle in the PIAA Class AAA semifinals, but lost in extra time
7. Summit Oak Knoll (N.J.) 22-1
Season complete: The Royals took a dominating 5-0 result over Cherry Hill Camden Catholic (N.J.) in the NJSIAA Non-Public final; the only defeat on Oak Knoll’s schedule was to Emmaus (Pa.)
8. Yorktown Tabb (Va.) 23-0
Season complete: The Tigers had a mighty struggle against a game Poquoson (Va.) in the VHSL Class 3 state final, but Kira Trader turned the tide with her midfield play
9. St. Louis John Burroughs (Mo.) 23-1
Season complete: The Bombers, after an overtime thriller against St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.) won the state championship with a no-doubt 5-0 win over St. Louis St. Joseph’s Academy (Mo.)
10. Palmyra (Pa.) 23-3
Season complete: Won PIAA Class AA final with a 3-2 win over defending champion Lititz Warwick (Pa.); Madelynn Witt had a brace for the Cougars
11. Husson College 9-7
Two quick first-quarter goals by Averi Baker and Faith Tillotson set the tone for the Eagles in their ECAC victory over Goucher
Who’s out: None
And bear in mind: La Jolla Bishop’s School (Calif.) 23-2, Davis (Calif.) Senior 14-2-1, Los Angeles Harvard-Westlake (Calif.) 15-4-1, Los Gatos (Calif.) 21-1, Greenwood Village Cherry Creek (Colo.) 17-2, Darien (Conn.) 19-2-1, Branford (Conn.) 17-2, Stamford Immaculate (Conn.) 19-3-1, Wilmington (Del.) Friends 17-1, Smyrna (Del.) 18-1, Winnetka New Trier (Ill.) 24-3-1, Louisville (Ky.) Assumption 20-6-1, The Christian Academy of Louisville (Ky.) 15-9-2, Belfast (Maine) 18-0, Portland Cheverus (Maine) 17-0-1, Leonardtown (Md.) 19-1, Baltimore Bryn Mawr (Md.) 11-4, Annapolis St. Mary’s (Md.) 11-3-1, Andover Phillips Academy (Mass.) 18-0, Concord Middlesex (Mass.) 16-4, Walpole (Mass.) 21-1-1, Somerset-Berkeley (Mass.) Regional 22-1, Ann Arbor Pioneer (Mich.) 15-6-1, St. Louis John Burroughs (Mo.) 24-1, Bedford (N.H.) 17-1-1, New Hampton (N.H.) School 16-3, West Long Branch Shore Regional (N.J.) 24-1-1, Mullica Hill Clearview (N.J.) 21-3, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.) 19-5, Cherry Hill Camden Catholic (N.J.) 18-7, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake (N.Y.) 20-1-1, Windsor (N.Y.) Central 19-1, Rye (N.Y.) Country Day School 14-3-1, Whitney Point (N.Y.) 20-0-1, Charlotte (N.C.) Country Day School 20-0-1, Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons (N.C.) 20-0, Worthington Thomas Worthington (Ohio) 21-2-1, Pottstown Hill School (Pa.) 15-6, Lititz Warwick (Pa.) 23-6, Duncannon Susquenita (Pa.) 22-2, Doylestown Central Bucks West (Pa.) 20-5-1, Providence Moses Brown (R.I.) 17-0-2, Houston Kinkaid (Tex.) 17-3, South Burlington Rice Memorial (Vt.) 17-0, Montpelier (Vt.) 17-0, McLean Langley (Va.) 22-1, Gloucester (Va.) 20-3, Virginia Beach Frank W. Cox (Va.) 18-4, Richmond Trinity Episcopal (Va.) 19-1-1, Milwaukee Divine Savior Holy Angels (Wisc.) 9-1
