Hilcoff was hired as the Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach in July of 2024.
Hilcoff held an Olympic Sports Nutrition Internship at Clemson during the Fall 2023 semester where she engaged in active sports nutrition shadowing and was tasked with gaining further knowledge in ways to fuel athletes of various sports for peak performance.
During the summers of 2019 and 2021 she spent her time as a Camp Counselor and Lacrosse instructor at Camp Metaponi in Naples, Maine. There she upheld responsibilities for campers while gaining listening and problem-solving skills along with preparing new lacrosse-related daily activities.
Her coaching experience extends to working with LaxMania Club Lacrosse in Jupiter, Florida during the summer of 2020. Her responsibilities included organizing and instructing practices and games while teaching new skills to players and guiding young women while establishing excitement for the athletes around the sport.
A successful Division I scholar-athlete, Hilcoff spent two seasons at Clemson University following her transfer from the University of Oregon.
Throughout her combined five seasons, two at Clemson and three at Oregon, she played in a total of 69 games, 168 goals, 29 assists for 197 points with 293 shots on goal, 0.771 shots on goal percentage, and a 0.442 shooting percentage. Defensively she finished her career with 212 draw control wins with 45 ground balls and 20 caused turnovers.
In 2024 she was named a Preseason All-American Honorable Mention after she led the Tigers with a career-high 51 goals the following year in 2023. Her senior year was the Tiger’s inaugural season in which Hilcoff scored the first goal in Clemson Lacrosse history in just under 40 seconds of the program’s first game.
During her three seasons at Oregon, Hilcoff was named Second Team All-Pac 12 during her sophomore (2022) and junior (2021) years. During her time in Eugene, Oregon she became the fastest player in Ducks history to record 100 career goals in which she scored 101 in 37 career games.
Since 2021 Hilcoff has also appeared for the Israeli National Team in which she competed at the 2022 World Games as her team finished 5th place in the world amongst over 100 competing countries.
She has earned both an NFHS Coaching Certification and an NFHS Strength and Condition Certification from Clemson University.
A Jupiter, Florida native, Hilcoff earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Physiology from the University of Oregon in 2022. She is currently working towards her Bachelor of Science in Health Science with a concentration in Preprofessional Health Studies at Clemson University in which she is expected to graduate in August 2024.
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