STANFORD, Calif. - Senior goalkeeper Kelsey Bing was named the Zag Field Hockey/NFHCA Division I National Scholar-Athlete, the organization announced Tuesday. Bing is the first in program history to the award, the highest academic accolade in the country.
The National Scholar-Athlete award is presented to the 2019 Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-American honoree who earns the highest cumulative grade-point average through the first semester of the 2019-20 academic year.
A mechanical engineering major with a GPA of 3.94, Bing helped lead the Cardinal to the America East Conference championship last fall, followed by a trip to the NCAA Tournament and an opening round win over Miami (Ohio). She finished her career at Stanford as a two-time All-American, three-time America East Goalkeeper of the Year and the program's all-time leader in career saves with 418 in her four years on The Farm.
Bing started all but one game in the cage for the Cardinal in 2019, making 123 saves and boasting a 1.47 GAA, along with two shutouts and a .788 save percentage, the fifth-best mark in the nation. The only game Bing missed was a Senior Night victory on Nov. 1 against UC Davis, as she competed as the starting goalkeeper for Team USA in its International Hockey Federation (FIH) qualifier on Nov. 1-2 against India.