Lynchburg senior Allie Weir scored four times Saturday in a 12-0 field hockey win over Sweet Briar to break the 33-year-old NCAA Division III career record for goals.

Weir has 121 tallies in her four seasons, surpassing Patricia Wilde’s record of 120 set for Bates in 1976.

Weir tied the record early in the second half, then tapped in a feed at 54:10 to become the Division III career record holder.

“It feels good to break the record,” she said. “I tried to not think about it, but there was a little pressure. After the third goal, I really hoped I’d break it today on homecoming – and with my parents, my grandma, my aunt and two cousins watching.

“Now we are looking forward to the next step, more team goals. We’d love to win our fourth straight Old Dominion Athletic Conference title and play in the NCAA tournament again. This is a good, experienced team, and I think we can go really far.”

Weir, whose younger sister Jenny is a teammate, said recently in a Richmond Times Dispatch interview that she chose Lynchburg because she could play field hockey while pursuing a career in nursing.

“I know this: I’m very happy where I am,” she replied when asked how she might have fared in an NCAA Division I program. “I never think about ‘might have’ and ‘could have’ because this is what is. I never think about other paths because this is the path I’ve chosen.”

Weir added two assists to her four scores Saturday and now stands just 25 points shy of the five-year-old Division III career points record of 297, held by Danae Chambers of Messiah. She broke the 10-year-old ODAC career points record with the showing against Sweet Briar.