A midfielder, Tori Spofford helped the Babson College field hockey team to a share of the New England Women’s & Men’s Athletic Conference regular-season championship last season. Coach Julie Ryan’s team was eliminated in the NEWMAC semifinals last fall and is looking to take things a step or two further this time around.

They got off to a 12-1 start overall (5-0 in the conference) this year. Through the first 13 games, Spofford had matched her career high with six goals; three of the six were game-winners, matching her peak in that category last year as well. The senior captain played field hockey, lacrosse, and competed in indoor track at Pentucket Regional. Her brother, Cameron, was a captain in lacrosse at Babson and her sister, Olivia, is a sophomore at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., where she rows crew.

Q. How did you get introduced to field hockey?

A. I played soccer and so many sports my whole life. Any team sport. I switched from soccer and tried field hockey freshman year of high school for the first time and loved it. I played varsity sophomore year.

Q. What do you like most about the sport?

A. Some of it is the teammates. Every single field hockey team I’ve been on there’s so much camaraderie and spirit. It’s a special bond. Maybe some of it is the sport itself. A lot of people don’t know much about it. It’s kind of like a grass-roots sport and I think it’s still growing. Soccer I grew up with my whole life and field hockey was something new and exciting to learn. There were so many things to learn. I just love it.

Q. What’s your best athletics memory from high school?

A. My favorite memory is probably game day. Any game day. I love game day — dressing up in uniform and all the hype and getting primed up and ready for the game. I still love game day. . . . There’s nothing like playing in a game, nothing like being on a team. I could probably play any sport and fall in love with it. Hopefully I fall in love with golf when I’m older. Or tennis. I always want to be playing something.

Q. What do you plan to do with your business degree?

A. I’d love to own my own store someday. I worked with the TJX Companies, Marshall’s, over the summer on an internship and they offered me a job. I recently accepted it and I’ll be working there next July in their merchandising program. Someday I’d like to be a buyer for the store. That would be so cool.

Q. What’s on your wish list for places to visit?

A. I love to travel. I went abroad to Italy last semester and studied in Florence. It was an unbelievable experience. I’d love to go back there. Or anywhere else. Portugal would be great. Or Spain. Or Ireland. I’d go anywhere.

Q. What’s your favorite place to visit in New England?

A. My grandparents have a beach house in Hull. Nantasket Beach is the best. It’s beautiful. When the tide goes out, there’s so much beach.

Q. Do you think often about the fact that you’re closing in on the end of your collegiate athletics career?

A. I can’t believe I’m a senior. It’s insane. I’ve been playing sports since I was so little, the fact that this is my last season is tough. I’ve thought of trying out for another sport in the spring semester. I still want to be on a team. It’s definitely in the back of my mind. I’d probably try to do lacrosse if I did one.

Q. What’s with the game-winning goals you keep piling up?

A. I think my best games are the tough ones. Those are the ones where I really try to pour it on, I guess. I feel like I’ve got to bring the energy.

Allen Lessels

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