Hall of Fame
A star from day one, Rachel Brousseau (Preusser) ‘13 rewrote the Spartan field hockey record book during her time on the turf. She set career records in points (219) and goals (86) that stood for a decade and is still the program’s all-time leader in career assists with 47. At the time of induction, she holds three of the 10 highest-scoring seasons in program history. She earned NFHCA Second Team All-America honors as a senior and was named NAC Player of the Year twice while earning All-Region honors on three occasions. Her stellar play guided Castleton to its best four-year stretch in program history, with the team winning 55 games and two NAC Championships during her reign. She racked up 26 goals and 11 assists for 63 points to help the team to a program-record 17 wins and a NAC Championship in 2012, and followed up with her own record-setting season in 2013 with a then-program-record 79 points on 26 goals, while leading all of NCAA Division III with 27 assists. Her performance on the field led the Spartans to a perfect 9-0 record in NAC play that season and resulted in Castleton’s second NAC Championship in a row. A mainstay near the top of the national leader boards, she ranked among the NCAA’s top 20 in scoring three years in a row from 2011 through 2013. Her career numbers rank her 25th all-time among Division III field hockey players in total points, and her 1.29 assists per game in 2013 still stand as the fourth-most in a single season in NCAA Division III history. Following graduation, Brousseau (Preusser) earned a post-graduate degree at LeMoyne and now works as a physician assistant in her home state of New York.
