Northern
Division
4-22
Jelena Maljkovic, St. Francis College
Jelena Maljkovic the St. Francis College senior captain, 2003 All American
Honorable Mention and All conference selection did everything she could
this past weekend at the CWPA Northern Championships. Despite the Terriers
losing three tough contests, the standout senior playing in her last
collegiate tournament saved her best performance for last.
Jelena in
four games scored a total of 14 goals, half her teams total for the
weekend. She also added 5 assists and 16 steals. In addition to these
numbers she also drew 10 ejections with four coming in the final game
victory over Queens College (8-7). Perhaps her most remarkable feat
is that she played every minute of each of the four grueling tournament
games.
4-8
Kate Chambers, Hartwick College
Junior Driver Kate Chambers led the Hartwick College women’s water polo
team to a first place finish at the ECAC Championship last weekend at
Brown University. She was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament
and was honored as an ECAC First Team All-Tournament selection.
Chambers registered four
goals, one assist, three steals and three drawn kick-outs in a 10-5
victory over Wagner College in Saturday’s opener, and followed with
two goals, two assists, two steals and two drawn kick-outs in an 11-4
triumph over George Washington University. In Sunday’s championship
game, Chambers tallied one goal, three steals and two drawn kick-outs
in a 7-6 overtime victory over Brown University.
4-1
Kaitlin Kelley, Iona College
Senior two-meter set Kaitlin Kelley led the Iona Gaels to a 3-1 record
this week. She tallied 12 goals, two assists, four steals and 11 kickouts
drawn in four games.
Kelley was perfect four goals
for four shots in Iona's shutout win against St. Francis on Saturday.
She also drew two kickouts and dished out one assist. She scored another
goal and drew two kickouts in the Gaels loss to Hartwick Saturday evening.
On Sunday, Kelley scored three goals and drew two kickouts to lift the
Gaels past Queens 8-7. Kelley helped the Gaels avenge an earlier season
loss to Wagner by scoring four goals, tallying one assist and drawing
four kickouts in their 10-8 win.
3-25
Jennifer Shoemaker, Iona College
Goalie Jennifer Shoemaker led the Iona College Gaels to a 3-0 record
this weekend. The senior co-captain gave up only eight goals in 2.5
games for a 3.2 goals against average.
Shoemaker made seven saves
in the Gaels' 10-2 win over NYU, allowing just one goal in two quarters
of action. In the Gaels' 11-2 win over Siena College, Shoemaker matched
her previous seven saves while also making two steals and assisting
on a goal. Shoemaker ended the week with a 8-5 win over Villanova. She
had another solid showing, blocking five Wildcat shots and holding them
scoreless in the fourth quarter.
3-18
Sheri Johnson, Hartwick College
Senior utility Sheri Johnson led the 15th-ranked Hartwick College women’s
water polo team to a 3-3 record last week. She tallied 22 goals, 13
steals and four drawn kick-outs in six games for the Hawks (16-8). In
addition, Johnson broke the school record for goals in a game with eight
against University of California at Davis on Saturday.
Johnson had four goals, three
steals and two drawn kick-outs in a 15-4 triumph over California State
Hayward on Thursday. She contributed four goals and one steal in a 15-2
victory over University of California at Santa Cruz, and registered
one goal and one steal in a 7-6 loss to San Jose State on Friday.
Johnson opened Saturday’s
play with a school-record eight goals in a 13-11 loss against University
of California at Davis. She had three goals and four steals in an 11-9
victory over Santa Clara, and finished with two goals and two steals
in a 10-6 loss to University of California at Berkeley.
3-4
Kate Chambers, Hartwick College
Junior driver Kate Chambers led the Hartwtick College women’s water
polo team to a 5-0 record last week – including three victories over
top 20 teams. In five games, Chambers totaled six goals, seven assists,
nine steals and six drawn kick-outs.
She opened
the week with one goal, two steals and two drawn kick-outs in a 7-5
triumph over No. 16 Brown University on Monday. Chambers tallied one
assist and one steal in a 13-3 victory over Slippery Rock in the opener
of the Bucknell University Invitational on Saturday. She then registered
two goals, one assist and two steals in an 8-7 sudden-death overtime
win over No. 9 Indiana University.
On Sunday, Chambers had two
goals, one assist and two steals in a 9-3 triumph over Bucknell. She
contributed one goal, four assists, four drawn kick-outs and two steals
in an 11-9 victory over 19th-ranked Princeton University.
2-19
Sheri Johnson, Hartwick College
Senior utility Sheri Johnson led the 18th-ranked Hartwick College women’s
water polo team to a 3-2 record last week. Johnson, the 2003 CWPA Northern
Division Player of the Year, had 13 goals and one assist in five games
for the Hawks (4-5). She opened the week with four goals in a 13-8 triumph
over California State San Bernardino, and registered one goal and one
assist in an 8-4 victory over 20th-ranked California Baptist. Johnson
scored two goals in a 12-6 loss against No. 1 University of Southern
California. She had three goals in a 9-4 loss to No. 7 Loyola Marymount
University, and scored three goals in an 11-4 triumph over University
of Redlands. Johnson was an AWPCA honorable-mention All-American in
2003.
2-12
Vanessa Malik, Hartwick College
Senior utility Vanessa
Mailk contributed seven goals, seven drawn kick-outs, three steals and
one assist for the Hartwick College women’s water polo team (1-3) at
the UC San Diego/Arena Women’s Water Polo Invitational over the weekend.
On Saturday, Malik had three
goals and two drawn kick-outs in a 9-7 loss to UC San Diego. She registered
one goal, one steal and one drawn kick-out in an 8-7 victory in double-overtime
against Arizona State.
Malik had one goal and three
drawn kick-outs in an 8-5 loss to UC Davis on Sunday. She had two goals,
one assist, one steal and one drawn kick-out in an 11-7 loss to UC Irvine.
Northeastern
Division
4-22
Diana Livermore, Brown University
Diana scored three goals and drew four ejections in the Northeastern
Championship Game versus Harvard. She also had three steals in the
game. In the two other games that she played over the weekend, Livermore
tallied five goals and drew a four-meter penalty as Brown won the
Northeastern championship.
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4-8
Keira Heggie, Brown University
Keira led the Brown Bears to a second Place Finish at the ECAC Championship,
losing only the final to Hartwick in overtime by a score of 7-6.
Against Princeton in the semi-finals, Keira made 14 saves and had
5 steals. In the championship match, Keira recorded 9 saves and
2 steals. Keira was also named to the All-Tournament First Team.
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4-1
Margaret Minnick, Connecticut College
Senior goalkeeper Margaret Minnick led the Connecticut College Camels
to a perfect home record this weekend as they defeated Siena, Utica
and Marist Colleges. Minnick recorded 18 saves and allowed only
6 goals in the two point Siena victory. Against Utica she pulled
in 13 saves, allowing only 4 to cross the line, and had two assists
as CC rolled 11-4. In the final game of the weekend, against a Marist
team that had defeated CC in their last game of 2003, Margaret was
the difference-tallying 11 saves and two steals in a come from behind
5-4 thriller. Minnick recorded two of her saves in the final minute
of play, the last one sealing the win and the perfect weekend for
Connecticut.
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3-25
Teresa Codini, Harvard University
In the three games played at Hartwick on March 20th, Teresa led
Harvard with 9 goals scored and 7 steals. For the season, Teresa
now leads Harvard's team in both goals (40) and steals (40), and
is second in ejections-drawn (23).
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3-18
Tina Codini, Harvard University
During the four games played at Harvard against Brown and Connecticut
College on March 13th and 14th, Tina was Harvard's leading scorer
with 6 goals and was second on the team in assists (5) and second
in steals (6). In Harvard's 5-4 victory over Brown, Tina scored
2 goals including the game winner in the 3rd quarter.
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3-4
Jeanie Ward-Waller, Brown University
Jeanie Ward-Waller led the Bears defensively to a 3-0 record this
past weekend at the Brown Invitational, shutting down opponents
at two-meters and racking up 10 steals. She also scored two goals
and drew four exclusion fouls over the course weekend. In the 7-5
loss against Hartwick on 2/23, she tallied one goal and one drawn
exclusion.
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2-19
Diana Livermore, Brown University
Diana Livermore led Brown in scoring this past weekend with eight
goals in three games at the Princeton Invitational. Livermore also
recorded eight steals and drew five ejections. The Bears went 3-1
on the weekend, with victories over Marist, George Washington and
Wagner.
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2-12
Keira Heggie, Brown University
Keira Heggie was named MVP of the Ivy Championships last weekend
and led Brown to a first place finish with an 8-1 win over Harvard
in the final game. She finished with 33 saves, 13 steals and a 4-meter
penalty block in the Championship Game. Brown also defeated Penn
18-4 and Dartmouth 17-1 en route to the title game.
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1-29
Jillian Jefferds, Marist College
Freshman
Jillian Jefferds had an outstanding debut at the University of
Michigan Invitational this past weekend. Jefferds scored her first
two collegiate goals in against Michigan State on Saturday and
added two more later in the day against No. 17 Arizona State.
Against Eastern Michigan on Sunday, Jefferds recorded three goals
and closed out the tournament by scoring a goal against No. 10
Michigan.
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Southern
Division
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4-16 Jess Wells,
Villanova University
Goaltender Jess Wells turned in a great performance for the Wildcats
in a 10-3 victory over St. Francis on Tuesday, April 6. Wells made
11 saves and posted a 78.6 save percentage. She also added to assists
and jumpstarted the Villanova counter attack, all game long.
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3-11
Kim Pare, Villanova University
Sophomore Kim Pare scored 20 goals and assisted on 4 more in five
games for Villanova last week. Pare chipped in five steals and 10
drawn ejections on the defensive end. Pare's scoring accounted 47%
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2-19
Meg Blitzer, Bucknell University
Junior Meg Blitzer had three goals and one assist in Bucknell's win
over 9-7 victory over Wagner College. Over the course of three games
at the Princeton Invitational this weekend she scored eight goals as
the Bison went 2-1 to open the 2004 season.
Western
Division
4-22
Shana Welch, University of Michigan
Freshman Shana Welch led Michigan to its third straight CWPA Division
Championship title. Welch started the weekend with a hat trick
on three-for-three shooting against Salem International in the
second round. In the semifinal against Washington & Jefferson,
Welch notched her 10th hat trick of the season on three-for-three
shooting and added two steals. She also broke a U-M record with
her 49th goal of the season. Then in the title game against No.
10 Indiana, Welch paced the Wolverines with a pair of goals, scoring
her 50th and 51st goals of the season. Over Michigan's three games
at the tournament, Welch scored eight goals and added two steals.
4-16
Krista Peterson, Indiana University
Junior Krista Peterson led the Hoosiers in an impressive showing
against the United States National Team. Team USA downed IU, 15-5
in the fifth game of their 2004 College Tour as they prep for
the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Peterson netted a hat
trick to lead the Hoosier charge as she was 3-of-4 shooting. Peterson
helped the Hoosiers take a 2-1 advantage over the defending World
Champions in the opening period of play. The five goals scored
by the Hoosiers were the second most given up by Team USA on the
tour. The Portland Ore., native also had a steal and a kickout
earned in the match against the 2000 Olympic silver medallists.
4-8
Shana Welch, University of Michigan
Michigan freshman Shana Welch continued to lead the Wolverines
offensively at the Fluid Four Challenge on April 3. Welch posted
two of her most complete games of the season, starting the tournament
with a pair of goals, an assist and a steal against No. 7 Loyola
Marymount. Then against No. 20 Cal State-Northridge, Welch notched
her ninth hat trick of the season with four goals and also added
an assist, two steals and a drawn ejection. Over U-M's two games,
Welch totaled six goals, two assists, three steals and a drawn
ejection. Through 33 games this season, she leads the Wolverines
with 43 goals and 40 steals, becoming the first Michigan player
to record a 40 goals-40 steals season.
4-1
Kara Woolley, Indiana University
Freshman
Kara Woolley turned in an outstanding effort in five CWPA Western
Division matches over the weekend. Woolley helped the Hoosiers
to a 5-0 mark, while scoring 12 goals, dishing out eight assists
and making eight steals. She shot 85.7-percent on 12-of-14. Woolley
now ranks fourth on the team in goals with 18.
Woolley
helped the Hoosiers to a school record 21 goals in a victory over
Salem International. The Fresno, Calif., native netted her second
career four-goal game against the Tigers. She also had a career-high
tying three steals against SIU. Woolley recorded two more hat
tricks on the weekend in wins over Penn State-Behrend and Washington
& Jefferson.
Also
against Penn State-Behrend, Woolley equaled a school record with
five assists. She now holds the mark with two other girls and
is the first since 2002 to accomplish the feat. Woolley also had
a pair of steals in the victory over the Behrend Lions and helped
the Hoosiers establish another school record for team steals in
a game with 26.
3-25
Kandace Waldthaler, Indiana University
Junior
Kandace Waldthaler turned in a stellar performance for the No.
12 Hoosiers at the Aloha Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Fairfield,
Calif., native scored 13 goals in six games as the Hoosiers went
3-2-1 and finished third in bracket 'A' of the Classic.
Waldthaler netted three
hat tricks on the weekend and scored a least two goals in five
of the six matches. In the Hoosiers two collegiate match-ups against
No. 2 Stanford and No. 6 Hawaii, Waldthaler continued her scoring
barrage. She scored five goals on only five shots in the two matches
and converted both four-meter penalty shots she attempted.
For the year, Waldthaler
ranks second on the Hoosiers with 20 goals. Over her last eight
collegiate matches, she has scored 16 goals, including four hat
tricks.
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3-18
Tara Braden, Penn State Behrend College
Tara
Braden, a former defender playing her first year in the goal,
has accumulated 58 saves in six games, with an average of 8.29
saves per game. After the returning goalie chose to pursue other
opportunities, Tara was asked to pick up the goalie position the
day before the first game at Salem International. As the team
captain she opted for what would be best for the team and decided
to learn the position.
In
an overtime loss to Salem International, Tara tallied 7 saves
and 2 steals from the deep-end cage. During a loss to Mercyhurst
College she tallied 17 saves, including one blocked penalty shot
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3-11
Betsey Armstrong, University of Michigan
Despite playing
only 35 minutes over U-M's three games, junior goalkeeper Betsey Armstrong
put up very impressive numbers at the CWPA Western Division weekend
on March 6, leading the Wolverines to a 3-0 conference record. Armstrong
started the day with four saves and one goal allowed against Slippery
Rock. She then put up a Michigan-record 24 saves in a 4-1 victory against
No. 10 Indiana. Over the weekend, Armstrong had 28 saves in 35 minutes,
two goals allowed, a 1.60 goals against average and posted a .933 save
percentage.
3-4
Betsey Armstrong, University of Michigan
Junior goalkeeper
Betsey Armstrong turned in five outstanding performances this past week,
all against Top 10 competition. Armstrong started the week with 12 saves
and one steal against No. 4 Long Beach State. In the opening round of
the UC Santa Barbara Invite, she had 10 saves, one assist and allowed
only two goals in a 3-2 victory over No. 7 Loyola Marymount. With the
win, Michigan advance to play No. 1 Southern Cal where Armstrong had
14 saves, one assist and one steal. In the second day of the tournament
Armstrong posted 14 saves against No. 5 San Diego State and had 17 saves
and one assist against No. 10 Hawaii. Over Michigan's five games during
the week, Armstrong totaled 67 saves, three assists and two steals while
boasting a .698 save percentage.
2-19
Sheetal Narsai, University of Michigan
Junior Sheetal
Narsai turned in four outstanding all-around games to lead the Wolverines
to a 4-0 mark at the Princeton Invitational. Narsai started the weekend
with two goals on two shots, one assist and one steal against George
Washington. Against No. 17 Brown, Narsai had one goal, two assists,
a pair of steals and one drawn ejection. She also became the first Wolverine
to top 100 steals in her career against the Bears. On Sunday, Narsai
opened the day with a goal, one assist, one steal and one drawn ejection
against No. 19 Princeton. She wrapped up the tournament with a two-goal
performance against Wagner. In that game she also added one assist and
two steals. Throughout the tournament, Narsai totaled six goals, five
assists, six steals and two drawn ejections.
2-12
Casey Kerney, University of Michigan
Junior Casey
Kerney led the Wolverines against the top competition in the country
against UC Santa Cruz and in the Stanford Invitational. Kerney started
the weekend with a pair of goals and drew a four-meter penalty against
UC Santa Cruz. Against No. 3 Stanford, she had a pair of drawn ejections,
but came back to have a very strong performance in a 7-4 victory against
No. 12 San Jose State. Kerney scored her 10th career hat trick and also
had three steals in the game. The next day, she turned in her best game
of the tournament against No. 9 Hawaii. In that game, Kerney had another
hat trick, two assists, three steals and two drawn ejections.Over the
weekend, Kerney scored eight goals, had three assists, seven steals,
and five drawn ejections, including a four-meter penalty.
1-29
Betsey Armstrong, University of Michigan
Junior goalkeeper
Betsey Armstrong led the Wolverines to a perfect 4-0 record at the Michigan
Invite, including victories over No. 9 Indiana, 4-2, No. 14 UC San Diego
(6-2) and No. 17 Arizona State, 8-5. Armstrong posted 10 or more saves
in every contest she played, including 15 saves in the game against
the Hoosiers. Over the weekend, she totaled 38 saves, held opponents
to 2.67 goals per game and boasted an 82.6 save percentage. Armstrong
also tallied one assist and four steals from her goalkeeping position.
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