Northern
Division
February
19, 2007 - Kristen Hudson (Fr., Wellington, New Zealand/Sacred Heart)
Hartwick
College
Hudson led
the Hawks to a 4-0 record at the University of Maryland Terrapin Invitational
posting 10 goals, 11 assists and 10 steals in the contests. The freshman
netted three goals against George Washington University in a 16-3 victory;
three goals against Princeton University in a 7-5 win; two goals against
Bucknell University in a 16-9 win, and two goals, including the game-winner
as time expired in a 12-11 come-from-behind win over Indiana University.
On the year, she has 40 goals for Hartwick.
February 26, 2007 - Sarah Glick (Fr., Bonita, CA/Bonita Vista)
Brown
University
Glick led
the Bears with three goals in a 13-7 loss to #13 Hartwick College as
the freshman leads the Bears in scoring against varsity teams with 10
goals in four games.
March 5, 2007 - Caitlin Fahey (Sr., Bellevue, WA/Seattle Prep)
Brown
University
Fahey was
named Second Team All-Tournament at the ECAC Championship as the senior
two-meter had four goals, five assists, four steals and three ejections
drawn, as the Bears finished in second place to Princeton University.
For the season, she has eight goals in seven games against varsity competition,
good for fourth on the Bears. She leads the team with 16 steals and
is tied for the lead with 10 assists.
March 12, 2007 - Lauren D'Antonio (Jr., Oceanside,
NY/Oceanside)
Utica College
D'Antonio made 50 saves and
collected three steals at the Penn State University Behrend Tournament
during 12 quarters of action. In a 10-6 loss to PSU-Behrend, she made
19 saves to keep the Pioneers in the game. Her 50 saves this weekend
pushed her into third in career stops at Utica with 149.
March 19, 2007 - Stephanie Laing (Fr., Ann Arbor, MI/Pioneer)
Brown University
Laing had 56 saves with 34
goals against, a .622 save percentage and 5.67 goals against average
while leading Brown to a 4-2 record as the Bears knocked off Slippery
Rock University (11-2 W), Indiana University (8-4 W), #17 the University
of Michigan (9-8 W) and Harvard University (8-3 W), while falling to
#11 Loyola Marymount University (11-6 L) and California Baptist University
(6-5 L). Against Harvard
in Brown's first Northern Division varsity game of the year, he stopped
11 of 14 shots she faced before stopping six shots versus Slippery Rock
and six versus Loyola Marymount with two steals. She concluded her week
by making double-digit saves in three consecutive games as the Bears
handled Indiana (12 saves), fell to Cal Baptist (10 saves) and knocked
off #17 Michigan (11 saves) at the University of Michigan Invitational.
March 26, 2007 - Elizabeth Balassone (Sr., Los Altos,
CA/Menlo)
Brown University
Balassone led the Bears in
scoring in three of four games over the weekend at the Aztec Invitational
hosted by San Diego State University. Versus the #4 ranked Aztecs, she
recorded two of Brown's three goals in a 12-3 loss with a pair of steals
and a drawn ejection. In a 10-4 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges,
she tallied four markers with three ejections drawn before scoring twice
with in an 8-7 overtime victory against Pomona Pitzer Colleges. She
concluded the weekend with two goals and four ejections drawn in a 9-7
victory over California State University-Bakersfield to rack up 10 goals,
eight ejections drawn and two steals in four games.
April 2, 2007 - Elizabeth Alonzo (So., Hilo, HI/Hilo)
Hartwick College
Alonzo improved her record
to 4-0 this season in goal by posting a career-high 17 saves in a 18-2
victory over Gannon University while recording two assists and two saves.
In victories over Queens College (12-3 W) and Utica College (12-1 W),
she notched five goals, an assist and four steals, including a hat-trick
versus Utica.
April 2, 2007 - Paige Lansing (Sr., Newport Beach, CA/Newport Harbor)
Brown University
Lansing scored
eight goals with three assists and four steals with an ejection drawn
in four games last week after scoring 12 goals in her first 17 contests.
Versus California Baptist Univeristy, she tallied two assists and three
steals with a goal as her lone score gave her team a 7-6 lead early
in the fourth quarter after trailing the entire contest as Brown recorded
a 9-7 victory. Her biggest game of the week came against then #15 Long
Beach State University as she recorded a hat-trick, including the game-winning
goal with 1:39 left in regulation, in a 9-8 upset. Later in the week,
she tallied half of her team's offense with three goals in a 12-6 loss
to #6 University of California-Irvine before concluding Brown's West
Coast swing with a goal, an assist, a steal and an ejection drawn in
an 8-4 loss to #15 University of California-San Diego. For the season,
Lansing is fifth on the team with 20 goals in 21 contests.
April 9, 2007 - Ellen Sevigny (Jr., Mount Desert, ME/University
of Southern California)
Hartwick College
Sevigny posted
eight points in two games last week, including seven goals as Hartwick
defeated #19 Brown University (16-5 W) and Harvard University (12-3
W) in CWPA Northern Division action. Against Brown, she netted four
goals and tallied three steals as the Hawks improved to 20-7 on the
year. On the season, Sevigny has 37 goals and 15 assists for 52 points
in 23 games, and has added 21 steals with 15 kickouts drawn as the Hawks
have clinched the #1 seed for the Northern Division Championship on
April 21-22 at Connecticut College.
April 16, 2007 - Alexis Blaxberg (Jr., Pinecrest, FL/Gulliver Prep)
Brown University
Blaxberg
led Brown with 11 goals and 10 steals in four Northern Division wins
last week. She also tied for second on the squad with four drawn ejections.
Blaxberg led the Bears in scoring with three goals against Connecticut
College in a 19-3 win, and with four goals against Utica in a 20-2 victory.
She also led the Bears in steals with four against the Camels and with
three thefts in a 13-3 win over Queens. On the season, Blaxberg has
22 goals in 26 games, good for sixth on the Bears, and her 23 steals
are third on the squad.
April 16, 2007 - Kirsten Hudson (Fr., Wellington, New Zealand/Sacred
Heart)
Hartwick College
Hudson helped
Hartwick to a 3-2 West Coast swing with 18 goals, eight assists, nine
steals and eight kick outs drawn. Her best game of the week came against
California Baptist University as she tallied six goals, including two
in overtime, to help lead Hartwick to a 12-10 victory. The freshman
netted four goals against Claremont Mudd Scripps in a 19-7 win, and
added three against Pacific in a 21-10 victory. Further, she scored
three of the Hawks' five goals against #4 Hawaii in a 9-5 loss and scored
twice against #3 USC in a 19-5 defeat. Currently, Hudson has 68 goals,
38 assists, 106 points and 42 steals on the season in 26 games.
April 23, 2007 - Kirsten Hudson (Fr., Wellington, New Zealand/Sacred
Heart)
Hartwick College
Hudson posted
eight goals and six assists, as well as seven steals in three appearances
as Hartwick went 4-0 and captured the Northern Division Crown last week.
The freshman scored four goals in the title game as Hartwick downed
#18 Brown 18-6 and added three goals in the squad's 24-7 victory over
Harvard. In her 29 appearances this season, she has 76 goals, 120 points
and 49 steals. The honor marks the third time Hudson has garnered Player
of the Week accolades this year as she was previously recognized on
February 19 and April 16.
April 30, 2007 - Kirsten Hudson (Fr., Wellington, New Zealand/Sacred
Heart)
Hartwick College
Hudson scored
five goals and handed out six assists to lead the Hawks to the 2007
Eastern Championship at Princeton University on April 28-29. She tallied
two goals and two assists against Harvard University in a 16-1 first
round victory, before tacking on three goals and two assists in a 15-7
victory over Indiana University in the second round. In
the title game versus the host Tigers of Princeton University, she handed
out two assists to help her team to an 8-6 victory, an NCAA tournament
bid and the program's second consecutive Eastern title.
The honor
marks the fourth time Hudson has garnered Player of the Week accolades
this year as she was previously recognized on February 19, April 16
and April 23.
Southern
Division
February 26, 2007 - Anna Gossett (Jr., Collegeville, MD/Hill School)
University
of Maryland
Gossett made
17 saves and allowed four goals in 64 minutes of play as Maryland recorded
wins over Iona College (8-2 W) and Villanova University (8-2 W) to finish
out a 4-0 weekend at the Bucknell Invitational. Against Wagner College
in an 11-9 win, she made three saves in the fourth period to preserve
the win for the Terrapins. She added four saves with two goals allowed
in three periods against Villanova and finished the weekend with eight
saves and two goals allowed in a complete game victory against Iona.
March 5, 2007 - Julie
Jacoby (Jr., Coral Gables, FL/Ransom Everglades)
George
Washington University
She was outstanding
in net for the Colonials last week, totaling 57 saves to lead the women's
water polo team to a 3-1 mark. She set a school-record for saves in
a single game with 22 as George Washington avenged an earlier loss to
Villanova with a 16-6 defeat of the Wildcats in their home pool on Saturday.
She also made 17 stops in an 11-7 victory over Siena and 10 blocks in
a 12-6 win versus Queens (NY). She began the week with eight saves in
a narrow loss to Maryland in GW's home opener on Wednesday. Jacoby is
averaging 12.1 saves per game for the 4-8 Colonials, one of the highest
saves averages in the country.
March 12, 2007 - Samantha
Shaughnessy (Sr., Burlingame, CA/St. Ignatius Prep)
Princeton
University
The senior
began the weekend by contributing a goal, assist and three steals in
a 15-12 win over Bucknell University. A night later, she was the surprise
starter in goal as she filled in for Princeton's usual starter, junior
Natalie Kim, who was sick. Shaughnessy and the Tigers defense tightened
things up as Princeton won 8-4 over the University of Maryland. Shaughnessy
stopped 12 of the 16 shots she faced in the game and the four goals
scored against Princeton was a low for the season. Prior to the game,
Shaughnessy had only played half of a quarter of goal in her collegiate
career, that coming earlier this season.
March 19, 2007 - Meagan
Gins (Jr., Albuquerque, NM/Valley)
Bucknell
University
A 2006 All-America
honorable mention selection, she had 10 goals, six assists, four steals
and 18 ejections drawn in six games in California last week as the Bison
downed California Baptist University (13-12 W 3OT), the University of
Redlands (10-6 W), Claremont Mudd Scripps Colleges (13-8 W) and fell
to #11 Loyola Marymount University (12-3 L), #5 the University of California-Irvine
(15-6 L) and #19 California State University-Northridge (13-8 L). Against
Cal Baptist, she netted three goals and added two steals while drawing
six ejections, before tacking on a goal and two assists with a pair
of steals versus Redlands. She continued her dominance against CMS as
she scored three goals and handed out two assists with a game high four
ejections drawn before netting an assist and a drawn ejection versus
Loyola Marymount. She concluded her week and Bucknell's California trip
with two goals, an assist and three drawn ejections against UC-Irvine
and a goal and an assist with three ejections drawn versus Cal State-Northridge.
Overall, she moved
into second on Bucknell's career goals list with 167, 31 shy of Meg
Blitzer's program record.
March 26, 2007 - Elizabeth
Hopkins (So., Coronado, CA/Coronado)
University
of Maryland
Hopkins led
the Terrapins to a 4-4 record as Maryland voyaged to the West Coast
to face #1 Stanford University (19-5 L), #17 Santa Clara University
(13-9 L), Sonoma State University (15-8 W), California State University-Monterey
Bay (11-8 W), #9 University of California-Davis (12-3 L), Pacific University
(12-7 W), #8 San Jose State University (10-6 L) and University of California-Santa
Cruz (9-2 W). She scored
twice versus Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz, and added a hat-trick against
Sonoma State, four goals versus California State University-Monterey
Bay and solo scores against UC-Davis and Pacific to finish the week
with 14 goals in eight games.
April 2, 2007 - Natalie
Kim (Jr., Palos Verdes, CA/PV Peninsula)
Princeton
University
Kim led Princeton
to a 2-0 record during the week with road wins over the University of
Maryland (11-6 W) and George Washington University (13-3 W) on March
31 by recording 18 saves in six quarters. Versus Maryland, she stopped
12 shots in three quarters while allowing five goals to pick up the
win before notching six saes in three quarters with two goals allowed
against George Washington. On the year, she is 10-4 with a 55.9 save
percentage as she has 124 saves with four assists and 27 steals for
the Tigers.
April 16, 2007 - Karina
Reyner (Sr., Miami Beach, FL/Miami Beach)
Princeton
University
Reyner scored
seven goals as Princeton concluded the regular season with a 17-7 record,
including a 6-0 mark in CWPA Southern Division competition, as she scored
four goals versus Bucknell University in a 12-9 win and three goals
in a 10-7 victory over George Washington University. On
the year, she has 43 goals on 106 shots in 24 games with 19 assists,
48 steals, 41 ejections drawn and a block.
April 23, 2007 - Shannon
Simerly (Fr., Miami, FL/Gulliver Prep)
University
of Maryland
Last weekend
in the Southern Division Varsity Championship Tournament, Simerly posted
nine goals to lead the Terrapins to the division title. Against Bucknell
University in the first round, she posted five goals as Maryland rolled
to a 14-6 victory over the Bison before tallying four goals in a 9-8
victory against Princeton University in the title game. On the year,
Simerly has 52 goals in 31 games as she is averaging 1.69 goals per
game.
April 30, 2007 - Natalie
Kim (Jr., Palos Verdes, CA/PV Peninsula)
Princeton
University
Kim led Princeton
to a 2-1 record and the tournament title game at the Eastern Championship
hosted by the Tigers as she finished with 30 saves in three games. Against
the University of Maryland in the first round, she recorded 13 saves
in a 11-7 win, before posting five saves in a 4-3 victory versus the
University of Michigan to advance to the title tilt. Versus
Hartwick College in the title game, she made 12 saves as the Tigers
fell to the Hawks 8-6.
Western
Division
January 31, 2007 -- Shana Welch (Sr., Larkville, PA/Wyoming Valley West)
University
of Michigan
Shana Welch helped the Wolverines
begin 4-0 on the season for the third time in four seasons, tallying
a four-game total of 12 goals and four assists at the Michigan Kick-Off
Invitational on January 27-28. She opened the weekend on January 27,
scoring four goals and one assist in a 12-5 season-opening win over
Marist College. Welch continued her hot hand against No. 20 the University
of Indiana in the evening affair, netting one goal and adding two assists
despite a blanket of defense covering her throughout the game in a 12-7
Wolverines' victory. She continued her dominance on January 28 scoring
six times on eight shots with an assist to aid a 15-8 over Colorado
State University. In a 15-10 victory over UC-Santa Cruz to conclude
the weekend, Welch collected three points on a goal and two assists
and drew two ejections. The honor marks her third Player of the Week
award in the last two seasons as she garnered the weekly honor on February
9 and March 9 during the 2006 season.
February 12, 2007 -- Leah Robertson (Fr., Newport Beach, CA/Newport
Harbor)
University
of Michigan
Robertson opened the Triton
Invitational with five steals and four drawn kickouts to go along with
a goal and assist in a win over Cal State Northridge. In game two on
Saturday, Robertson earned six steals against UC Davis for her third
straight game with five or more thefts. She also tallied a goal and
an assist and a drawn KO. In Michigan's first game on Sunday, Robertson
scored once and recorded two steals and three drawn kickouts against
UC Santa Barbara. Later that day, she tallied three points on a goal
and two assists, while also notching five steals and three drawn kickouts
against UC San Diego. Overall on the weekend, Robertson tallied eight
points on four goals and four assists, and forced 18 steals and nine
drawn ejections.
February 19, 2007
-- Kristen Davis (So., Villa Park, CA/Villa Park)
University
of Michigan
Davis backstopped
the 16th-ranked Wolverines to a perfect 4-0 record at the Terrapin Invitational
on February 17-18 as she recorded 29 saves, five assists and three steals.
She began the weekend with seven saves, one assist and a steal in a
10-8 win over No. 17-ranked Prinecton University. She followed that
up on Saturday night, blocking a career-high ten shots in a 10-7 win
over host the University of Maryland. On Sunday, Davis knocked away
seven shots and added three assists and a steal in a 16-7 win over George
Washington University and helped the Wolverines cap the weekend with
an 11-7 victory over Bucknell University, making five saves and recording
an assist and a steal.
February 26, 2007 -- Julie Hyrne (So., Sunnyvale, CA/Archbishop Mitty)
University
of Michigan
Hyrne began the weekend with
a pair of goals in a near-upset of #7 Loyola Marymount University on
February 22 in a 9-7 loss. Two days later on the first date of competition
at the Anteater Invitational, she contributed a goal, steal, drawn kickout
and field block in a close 8-7 loss to #11 Arizona State University.
On Sunday, Hyrne was back at it, scoring a goal and adding a steal and
two drawn kickouts in a 10-6 loss to #15 Long Beach State University.
In the weekend finale, she set a school record with 10 points in a 13-8
win over #14 UC San Diego. The sophomore tallied six goals -- the second-highest
tally in school history -- and a career-high four assists. She also
had a career-best four steals and drew two ejections. Hyrne has scored
in 16 of 17 games this season for the Wolverines and is tied for the
team lead in goals with 29.
March 5, 2007 -- Shana Welch (Sr., Larkville, PA/Wyoming Valley West)
University
of Michigan
A Co-Player
of the Week with Gannon University's Kat Bucceri, Welch scored seven
goals and added two assists in a near upset of #4 the University of
Hawaii as the Wolverines fell 16-15. She also contributed a team-high
four steals and drew two ejections in the game. The honor marks her
second Player of the Week award as she was previously recognized on
January 31st for tallying a four-game total of 12 goals and four assists
at the Michigan Kick-Off Invitational on January 27-28.
March 5, 2007 -- Kat Bucceri (Sr., Falls Village, CT/Suffield Academy)
Gannon University
A Co-Player of the Week with
the University of Michigan's Shana Welch, Bucceri scored 27 goals and
handed out nine assists in give games as Gannon won the Utica Invitational
by knocking off Utica College (17-2 W, 18-4 W), St. Francis College
(14-5 W, 16-3 W) and Carthage College (16-5 W) to open the season 5-0.
March
12, 2007 -- Amanda Thompson (Fr., Erie, PA/McDowell)
Grove City College
She scored nine goals in five
games as the Wolverines downed Penn State University-Behrend (19-5 W),
Queens College (11-6 W), Utica College (9-2 W) and Carthage College
(7-5 W), and fell to Siena University (3-2 L). Against Queens and PSU-Behrend
she notched hat-tricks with three goals before adding two goals and
five steals versus Utica and a goal and an assist with three steals
versus Carthage.
March 19, 2007 -- Mary Chatigny (So., Palm Springs, CA/Palm Springs)
University of Michigan
Chatigny tallied five goals
and eight assists in five games at the Wolverine Invitational (March
16-18) to move into fourth on the team scoring with 16 goals and 25
assists. Chatigny started the weekend by notching a goal and two assists
with a steal in a 14-3 win over Grove City on Friday. She then led U-M
to a 12-6 win over Wagner on Saturday morning with a team-high five
points (3 goals, 2 assists) and added a steal on defense. The point
total tied a career high. In the evening against #11 Loyola Marymount,
Chatigny led the team in points against with three helpers in a 10-7
loss. On Sunday, she earned an assist against both Cal Lutheran and
Brown as the Wolverines knocked off the Kingsmen 13-3 and fell to the
Bears 9-8. She also earned a steal and a drawn kickout against Cal Lutheran,
while contributing a theft against Brown.
March 26, 2007 -- Brooke
Zimmerman (Jr., Calgary, Alberta, Canada/Riffel-Regina)
Indiana University
Zimmerman led Indiana to a
6-0 week as the Hoosiers knocked off Gannon University (9-7 W), Mercyhurst
College (14-2 W), Penn State University-Behrend (17-1 W), Grove City
College (14-4 W), Slippery Rock University (16-9 W) and Washington &
Jefferson College (19-7 W) to set-up an April 7 game in Bloomington
versus #18 University of Michigan to decide the Western Division regular
season champion and the #1 seed for the Western Division Championship
on April 21-22 at Michigan. Last week she tallied 13 goals to raise
her single season scoring total to 70 goals, three shy of the all-time
IU single season record of 73 set by Kristin Stanford in 2003. She opened
the weekend with one goal against Gannon, and rattled off hat-tricks
versus Mercyhurst, Penn State Behrend and Slippery Rock before tallying
a goal against Grove City and a pair of markers at Washington and Jefferson.
Zimmerman's six goals
raised her career total to 116 as she ranks seventh on the all-time
list at Indiana.
April
2, 2007 -- Jane
Wilson (Fr., Newberg, OR/Veritas School)
Grove City College
Wilson led Grove City to a
6-0 weekend at the Carthage Invitational in Kenosha, Wisconsin as she
finished with 18 goals, three assists and 20 steals in six matches with
wins over Colorado College (14-7 W), Penn State University -Behrend
(16-1 W), Carthage College (11-3 W), Wheaton College (8-0 W), Washington
& Jefferson College (6-3 W) and Macalester College (12-3 W) as the
Wolverines raised their record to 12-14 on the year. In the tournament's
opening date of competition, she scored four goals and handed out a
pair of assists before tallying four goals in Grove City's triumph over
CWPA Western Division rival PSU-Behrend. She concluded the day by scoring
a career-high five goals with an assist and six steals in the Wolverines'
11-3 win over host Carthage. She concluded the weekend by scoring three
goals in the team's win over Wheaton (Ill.), tallying a goal and four
steals as Grove City downed CWPA archrival Washington & Jefferson
and registered a goal and six steals in the squad's victory over Macalester.
April 9, 2007 -- Brittany
Estrada (Jr., Coronado, CA/Bonita Vista)
Indiana University
Estrada set a her career high
with three goals, including the winning tally with 1:42 remaining in
the first overtime session, as Indiana University defeated rival #17
University of Michigan 9-7 in overtime on Saturday, April 7 in the Counsilman-Billingsley
Aquatic Center. She picked up her first goal of the game just one minute
into the second frame and then tied the score at 4-4 with 50 seconds
remaining in that period on her second tally. The
win clinched the #1 seed in the Western Division Championship for Indiana
as the Hoosiers will travel to the University of Michigan on April 21-22
for the division tournament.
April 16, 2007 -- Alicia Sutton (So., Erie, PA/McDowell)
Washington & Jefferson
College
Playing with a broken thumb,
Sutton led her team in goals (six), assists (eight) and steals (eight)
versus Mercyhurst College (8-4 L), Gannon University (11-9 L) and Slippery
Rock University (11-8 L) as W&J clinched the seventh seed for the
Western Division Championship tournament set for April 21-22 at the
University of Michigan.
April 23, 2007 -- Julie Hyrne (So., Sunnyvale, CA/Archbishop Mitty)
University
of Michigan
Hyrne tied for the team lead
in points over the weekend while leading the Wolverines to their sixth
straight Western Division championship following a thrilling 8-6 overtime
win against Indiana University. She opened the weekend with two points
in limited time in a 19-2 win over Washington & Jefferson, and also
added a steal. Later in the evening, Hyrne exploded for eight points
on six goals and two helpers in a 21-5 in over Slippery Rock. She also
had a steal and drew a team-high three ejections in the contest. In
Sunday's championship, Hyrne scored both overtime goals in the second
overtime to complete Michigan's two-goal comeback and hand the Wolverines
another division crown. She also contributed two steals and a team-best
three assists. As a result of her nine-goal, three-assist weekend, Hyrne
is now tied for the team lead in goals with 79 on the season. The
award marks the second time this season Hyrne has been named the Player
of the Week as she previously earned the honor on February 26.
April 30, 2007 -- Brooke
Zimmerman (Jr., Calgary, Alberta, Canada/Riffel-Regina)
Indiana University
Zimmerman led Indiana to a
2-1 week and third place at the Eastern Championship as she finished
with six goals in wins over Brown University (9-8 W) and the University
of Michigan (5-3 W) and a loss to 2007 Eastern champion Hartwick College
(15-7 L).
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