QBSN Athlete of the Week: Stephanie Hasher

QBSN Athlete of the Week: Stephanie Hasher
By Ben Dias, QBSN Staff Writer

This week’s QBSN Athlete of the Week honors are awarded to Stephanie Hasher (Bayport, N.Y.) of the Quinnipiac women’s rugby team.

Over the course of the inaugural women’s rugby season at Quinnipiac, the senior outside center has been at the front of the Bobcats attack. During the Bobcats home-opener win against MetNY opponent Marist 23-7, Hasher led the offensive attack, running in two tries for a total of 10 points in the game. With their second-consecutive victory, the Bobcats improve to 2-2 overall and 2-1 in MetNY action.

Quinnipiac thwarted any thoughts of a second half comeback early on, as Hasher ran in her second try on the afternoon just three minutes into the half to increase the Bobcats lead, 18-0.

The first home win and second consecutive win for the Bobcats was all about hard work. 

“It feels fantastic,” head coach Becky Carlson said. “I know the girls were relatively nervous before the game. This kind of proves that hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

“These girls have only been playing the game for six months and they’ve just played a team that is relatively all veteran,” Carlson said. “I’m very proud of how they pulled it together. I said to them at halftime, two words came to mind collective effort. Typically the game is won and lost in the forwards and the backs decide by how many. They both came together as a unit and it was fantastic.”

Hasher led a Bobcats attack that has been coming along and making progress after two consecutive wins over SUNY-New Paltz 15-5 and now over Marist.

“Hasher has been instrumental in our wheelhouse department, where she is the one expected to take the ball to the outside,” Carlson said. “She did well.” 

 “It’s huge,” Hasher said of getting the first win on home turf. “We’ve been working so hard and this is our time to show everybody what we’ve been working on. We wanted to prove to everybody that we could do it, we’re a team.”

 “I’ve been waiting 10 years to see something like this … rugby at Quinnipiac now looks like a marketable product,” Carlson said.