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Claire Brush is in her first season as an assistant coach with the University of Michigan field hockey program. A two-time Michigan graduate, Brush was a five-year letterwinner (2016-20) and two-time team captain for the Wolverines.
Brush spent five seasons as a UMFH student-athlete (2016-20), twice serving as a Wolverine team captain and the team's recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2019, '20). She appeared in 64 games in maize and blue, starting 34 in the backfield over her final two seasons, and contributed to a defensive unit that allowed just 1.16 goals, 7.83 shots and 3.99 corners per game over a five-year span. During her tenure, Michigan captured three Big Ten regular-season titles and two tournament titles and twice advanced to the NCAA Final Four, earning national runner-up honors in the spring season of 2021.
An Ann Arbor native and Pioneer High School graduate, Brush was the 2015 MLive Michigan Field Hockey Player of the Year and a two-time All-State selection and helped lead Pioneer to three state championships. She started playing field hockey in middle school with Pinnacle Field Hockey Club under former Michigan head coach Nancy Cox and has herself helped coach field hockey with Pinnacle over the last eight years.
Brush is currently the chairperson of Great Lakes Regional Field Hockey, a non-profit organization first established in 2019 to serve and support the growth of field hockey at the local level throughout the Great Lakes Region of the Midwest. She has been a field hockey umpire since 2021 and elevated to NCAA Division I and Division III games last fall. Off the field, she has spent the last four years working in sales and account management for American Axle & Manufacturing in Detroit.
A four-time NFHCA Collegiate National Academic Team and Academic All-Big Ten honoree, Brush earned her bachelor's degree in economics, with a minor in sustainability, in 2020 and added a Masters of Management degree from the Ross School of Business in 2021.
