Indiana University
#1 Northwestern
Indiana Heads North to Take on No. 1 Northwestern
9/24/2025 2:30:00 PM | Field Hockey
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. –––– Indiana Field Hockey is set to travel to Evanston for a matchup with Northwestern on Friday, Sep. 26 at 4 p.m. ET.
WEEKEND REWIND
• Indiana Field Hockey fell to Iowa on Friday, Sep. 19 and Sunday, Sep. 21. The Cream and Crimson fell in tight battles to Iowa 3-2 on Friday afternoon and 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.
• Friday's contest contributed to each team's conference record while Sunday was a non-conference game.
• Three separate Hoosiers contributed goals on the weekend: Charlotte Glasper (4), Mijntje Hagen (2) and Celia Arroyo Cabezudo (6).
• In Sunday's game, Inés Garcia Prado made her third defensive save of the 2025 season.
• The Hoosiers took 27 shots throughout the weekend. Fourteen of those shots were shots on goal. Iowa took 19 total shots and 13 shots on goal.
AT THE MIDPOINT
• Indiana's game against Northwestern will be the Hoosiers' second Big Ten game of the season.
• Indiana's conference record currently stands at 0-1 while this Friday's game will be Northwestern's first Big Ten competition of the season.
• Inés Garcia Prado is tied for sixth in the Big Ten conference with 14 points on the 2025 campaign.
• Garcia Prado leads the conference with three defensive saves.
• Mijntje Hagen is third in the Big Ten in assists with seven in eight games.
• The Hoosiers have nine games remaining at the halfway point of the season. Four of the games will be played at Deborah Tobias Field while five will see IU on the road.
CONNECTIONS TO HOME
• There are both international ties and local ones featured in Indiana's weekend matchup with Northwestern.
• In this weekend's game, nine players will represent the Netherlands. This includes IU's Keke Sluiter, Kiki Oomens, Mijntje Hagen and Northwestern's Ilse Tromp, Kate Janssen, Annika de Haan and Maja Zivojnovic.
• The east coast will be represented in Evanston on Friday.
• Kate Longo (Indiana) and Emilie Kirschner (Northwestern) are from North Carolina. Morgan Qualls (Indiana), Ella Kokinis (Northwestern) and Piper Borz will represent Maryland. Goalkeeper Sadie Canelli (Indiana) and Lindsey Brown (Northwestern) will represent Massachusetts.
QUICK STATS
• Ten Hoosiers have scored a goal this season: Celia Arroyo Cabezudo, Mijntje Hagen, Anna Mozeleski, Molly Stutte, Lily Freeman, Charlotte Glasper, Theresa Ricci, Hannah Riddle, Ava Winner and Inés Garcia Prado.
• Arroyo Cabezudo leads scoring for the Hoosiers with six goals while Mozeleski, Garcia Prado and Glasper each have four.
• Sixteen Hoosiers have taken shots this season. Garcia Prado leads the squad with 27 shots, followed by Stutte with 24 shots.
• Hagen leads IU in assists with seven. Garcia Prado has recorded six assists.
• Sadie Canelli leads the goalkeepers with 16 saves on the season.
• Canelli has recorded two shutouts during the 2025 campaign.
• Arroyo Cabezudo is tied for second amongst all freshmen nationally with six goals scored this season.
SCOUTING THE COMPETITION
• Indiana will travel north to take on No. 1 Northwestern on Friday, Sep. 26 for their second Big Ten game of the year.
• This will be Indiana's third ranked opponent of the 2025 campaign. IU played No. 8 Boston College in the second game of the season and No. 11 Iowa last weekend.
• Northwestern stands at 8-0 with a 4-0 win over Delaware and besting Villanova 5-0.
• Ilse Tromp is Northwestern's leading scorer with eight goals on the season.
• This will be the 30th all-time matchup between Indiana and Northwestern. Northwestern leads the all-time series 19-10. The last time IU and Northwestern played was in 2024.
• Northwestern won the 2021 and 2024 national championships and were runner-ups in 2022 and 2023.
OVERTIME TIDBITS
• Indiana's Inés Garcia Prado, Emma Thompson and Mijntje Hagen were named to the Big Ten's preseason Players to Watch list.
• Senior Emma Thompson, a captain in 2024, is once again a team captain in 2025. Junior Inés Garcia Prado was voted in as a team captain for the Hoosiers as well.
• Indiana's roster bolsters a former high school duo who are once again playing together at the collegiate level. Javi Baeza and Charlotte Glasper played together at Shaker Heights High School (Ohio).
• The Hoosiers further their international talent, expanding the number of countries represented on the team. Lily Freeman and Elen Nicholls came to Bloomington from England while Keke Sluiter, Kiki Oomens and Mijntje Hagen travelled from the Netherlands. Emma Thompson is from New Zealand. Both Celia Arroyo Cabezudo and Inés Garcia Prado represent Spain in Bloomington.
