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Hannah Melchiorre Season 2017

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PositionMIDFIELDER/FORWARD
Height5-5
YearFreshman
HometownThunder Bay, Ontario

2019 / AS A JUNIOR

  • Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup Semifinalist
  • CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
  • Academic All-District First Team
  • Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Is the second player in program history to be named an Academic All-American and the second to earn multiple academic all-district accolades
  • Played in all 20 matches with 19 starts and led the team with four goals and three game-winning goals, was second with 12 shots on goal and was third with eight points and 22 shots while playing 1,320 minutes
  • Started both matches in the Big Ten Tournament and had a shot and played 70 minutes while shutting out top-seeded and No. 7-ranked Wisconsin in a 1-0 victory on Nov. 3
  • Scored the game-winning goal at Indiana and played 52 minutes as the Boilermakers kept the Golden Boot for a fifth consecutive season with a 2-1 win on Oct. 27
  • Played a season-high 92 minutes and had three shots at No. 22 Rutgers on Oct. 17
  • Had a season-best four shots, two on goal, against Ohio State on Oct. 10
  • Scored a goal against No. 11 Kansas on Sept. 8
  • Netted the game-winning goal in a 3-0 win at DePaul on Aug. 29
  • Recorded the game-winning goal in a 4-0 victory against Toledo on Aug. 25
 

2018 / AS A SOPHOMORE

  • CoSIDA Academic All District Second Team
  • Played in all 18 games, starting 10
  • Accumulated 980 minutes on the season for an average of 54 minutes per game
  • Second on the team with four assists
  • Placed seven of her 10 shots on goal
  • Three of four assists came in conference play
  • Assisted the game-winning goal in the 1-0 victory at Georgia (8/30)
  • Notched assists in back to back games vs Ohio State and Rutgers
  • Recorded a match-high two shots at Iowa (9/20), both of which were on frame
 

2017 / AS A FRESHMAN

  • Started all 19 games, one of three freshmen to do so
  • Contributed to 10 scores with four goals and six assists
  • First freshman in program history to score in each of the first two games
  • Assisted on goals by Andrea Petrina and Kylie Hase in the Indiana State win to give her six points in her first three games
  • First freshman since 2014 to account for Purdue’s first goal of the season and the first freshman to score in a season opener since 2011
  • Also scored vs. Dayton and Michigan State
  • Recorded assists in Big Ten games vs. Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Iowa
  • Her six assists were the most by a Purdue freshman since 2013
  • Averaged 72 minutes per game, logging a season-high 93 in the draw at Indiana
 

HIGH SCHOOL

  • Played soccer, basketball and volleyball while attending Shattuck St. Mary's, a boarding school in Faribault, Minnesota
  • Played as many as six sports early on SSM, including badminton, cross country and track & field
  • Also played for the Thunder Bay Chill club team
  • Two-time Athlete of the Year while competing in the six different sports
  • Recorded 16 goals and 11 assists as a senior
  • In 41 total games as a junior, including non-league action, finished with 36 goals and 18 assists
  • Four-year honor roll student
  • Earned the top academic score for grade 10
  • Cum laude society
 

PERSONAL

  • Majoring in biochemistry
  • Parents are Angelo and Kate Melchiorre
  • Has a younger brother, Benjamin
  • Mother, Kate, played field hockey at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
  • Father, Angelo, was a rower at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
  • Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Senior
2020-21

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Junior
2019

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Sophomore
2018-19

MIDFIELDER/FORWARD
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Sophomore
2018

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