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Jersey Number 21
Cato Geusgens
- Position:
- Defense
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Wassenaar, Netherlands
- High School:
- Rijnlands Lyceum
- Prev School:
- Virginia
As a Senior at Virginia (2022):
As a Junior at Virginia (Fall 2021):
As a Sophomore at Virginia (Spring 2021)
As a Freshman at Virginia (2019)
High School/Club
Personal
- Played in 19 games with 16 starts
- Scored three goals with four assists for 10 points
- Scored a goal off a penalty corner at Northwestern (9/11)
- Scored two goals, including the game-winner, in the 3-0 victory against Syracuse (9/23)
- Had assists in three-straight games against Liberty, North Carolina and Kent State
- Had an assist in the ACC Championship match against North Carolina (11/4)
- All-ACC Academic Team
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
As a Junior at Virginia (Fall 2021):
- Appeared in 15 games with six assists
- Had the assist on back-to-back game-winning goals at Ohio State (9/19) and Wake Forest (9/24)
- Also had an assist in the regular-season game against Maryland (10/07)
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
As a Sophomore at Virginia (Spring 2021)
- Started all 18 games
- Assisted on both goals in the 2-1 win over Wake Forest in the ACC Quarterfinals (11/5)
- Had the assist on the game-tying goal that forced overtime against North Carolina (4/9)
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
As a Freshman at Virginia (2019)
- All-ACC Academic Team
- Led the team with eight goals
- Finished her freshman campaign with 17 points
- Member of a backline defense that registered seven shutouts
- Named the ACC Defensive Player of the week (Oct. 15).
- Was also named the Synapse Sports NCAA Division I National Rookie of the Week (Oct. 15)
- In addition to the game-winner against Miami, also scored game-winning goals against Yale and at Syracuse
- Appeared in all 23 games with 22 starts
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
High School/Club
- Has been playing hockey since the age of six for Hockey Club HGC in the Netherlands, including spending the past two years playing for its A1 team
- In 2017-18 in the Super A league, won the outdoor championship and finished in second place at nationals
- Won an outdoor championship in 2013-14 in the top league with the C2 team after winning an indoor championship the year before with the D1 team
- Also plays tennis
- Spent two years volunteering at Meet and Move Camp, a sports camp for refugee children aged six to 12
Personal
- Parents are Anneke Geusgens and Paul Geusgens
- Has a younger brother, Martjin
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