Bio

For one season, the top three all-time scorers in the history of Goucher’s field hockey program were teammates. The year was 1992 and Renie Amoss, in her final season, produced 23 goals, while first-year players Michele Mohlman and Chrissy Czajkowski supplied the Gophers with 15 and eight goals, respectively. 

Each of the next three seasons, Mohlman and Czajkowski finished 1-2 in goals, each time in that order.

So, although Czajkowski was never Goucher’s  leading scorer in any of her four seasons, she still ranks third all-time with 38 career goals and 88 career points.

It was one season after then-Goucher head field hockey coach Andrea Bradley took a team that sometimes dressed only seven players and still managed to win a pair of games that Czajkowski was part of a large and very talented recruiting class that would lead the Gophers to appearances in the NCAA Division III Championships in 1994 and again in 1995. In her first game, which turned out to be a 4-0 victory over Hood, Czajkowski tallied a pair of goals, part of her eight-goal, four-assist performance as a freshman. That 1992 squad went 12-7 and holds the distinction of being the first field hockey team in school history to earn an NCAA Division III regional ranking.

Czajkowski came back in 1993 with eight more goals and four more assists as the Gophers again reached double digits in victories by going 10-7-1.

The 14 goals she scored, along with the three she set up with assists, helped propel the Gophers into the national spotlight in 1994 as they achieved a 15-4-1 record and claimed the first CAC title in program history. The team, which rose as high as 11th in the Division III national rankings, was the first in any sport to represent Goucher in the NCAA Division III playoffs.

In Czajkowski’s senior year, Goucher’s field hockey team went 13-4-2 under first-year head coach Kathy Frick. Even though they fell to Salisbury, 2-0, in the CAC championship game, the Gophers were back in the Division III playoffs. Their game against Lebanon Valley was still scoreless at the end of regulation and two overtime periods, but it was the Flying Dutchmen who earned the right to advance through penalty strokes.

Czajkowski, one of nine individuals who have had their jersey retired by Goucher’s intercollegiate athletics department prior to induction into the Athletics Hall of Fame, was a third-team selection on the College Field Hockey Coaches Association’s 1995 Division III All-America Team, as well as a first-team All-South Region pick that year. She, along with Mohlman and Michelle Cotter, are the only three field hockey players from Goucher to be a four-time all-conference performer as she was All-CAC first team in 1992, ’94 and ’95 and second team in 1993.

Czajkowski has remained involved in athletics since her graduation from Goucher. When she had her No. 10 jersey retired in 2002, she was in her first season as head field hockey coach at Christiana High School in Newark, Del.