Esther Pottebaum Season 2024

As a Freshman (2023):

• Appearing in 14 games on the season
• Tallied a goal and an assist on the year
• Scored first career-goal against Maine (Sept. 17)

Before Stanford

• Three-time first team All-Metro League (2020-22), honorable mention in 2019.
• Led Burroughs to the state championship game in 2022
• Two-time St. Louis Post Dispatch All-Metro selection (second team 2021, third team 2020)
• 2017-22 Nexus Championship selection
• Led field hockey team to top-three finishes in each season, including two runner-up placements.
• Four-year letterwinner and senior year captain at John Burroughs
• Also lettered on swimming, basketball and lacrosse teams. Led lacrosse team to third in state in 2021, earned top seed in 2023.
• MSHSAA Award of Excellence (2023)
• Recipient of St. Louis Sports Commission's Carl Fricks Sportsmanship Scholarship
• On NFHCA National Academic Squad

Personal

• Parents are Joseph and Michelle Pottebaum
• Has five siblings: John, Josh, Caleb, Micah and Grace
• Sister, Grace, plays field hockey at North Carolina
• Brother, Josh, is a safety on the football team at DePauw
• Grandfather, Don Pruett, played baseball at Yale
• Great-grandfather, Hubert Pruett, played professional baseball for the Phillies and Browns