Her mom, Sunny Hilliard, played softball at Texas. Her dad, Dave Webster, played football at Kent State. “It was always in the back of my mind to play both in college.” “From second grade I was playing both sports,” she says. But the Badgers did not have a field hockey program, and Webster really wanted to play field hockey again.
In 2021, as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, she and her team won a national championship and she was honored as the Frozen Four’s most outstanding player. Louis to Faribault, Minnesota, to play for prestigious Shattuck-St. As a hotly recruited teenage prospect, she moved from St. Webster was then known as an elite ice hockey forward. When Makenna Webster entered the NCAA’s student-athlete transfer portal in 2022, she had a clear objective: She wanted to find a school where she could be a two-sport athlete.
