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Women's Lacrosse All-Ivy -- 2012
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Princeton Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- There was little doubt in the
Ivy League coaches’ minds about the making of the 2012
All-Ivy First Team, as nine of the 11 selections were
unanimous.
The League awards, however, were tougher to vote on, but for the
second-straight year a Dartmouth player took home Ivy League Player
of the Year after senior midfielder Sarah Plumb
(Wellesley, Mass.) earned this year’s award. The Big Green
was unable to match last year’s feat of sweeping Player and
Rookie of the Year, as the latter went to Princeton freshman
Erin McMunn (Westminster, Md.), who becomes the
first Tiger to earn that particular honor since Holly
McGarvie in 2006.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Plumb led Dartmouth in points (44), goals (33), assists (11), draw
controls (71) and caused turnovers (15) and was second on the team
in groundballs (27). The 2012 Tewaarton Award nominee leads the
League and ranks seventh in the nation in draw controls per game.
She scored at least three goals on six separate occasions,
including six against Yale on March 3, and tallied at least five
points in four games. Plumb leads the League with three gamewinning
goals, against Yale, No. 4 Duke and No. 7 Penn.
This season Plumb has set Dartmouth single-game, single-season and
career records in draw controls with nine, 71 and 145,
respectively. Her single-season and career totals are also Ivy
League records. The award marks the second time in program history
that Dartmouth has won consecutive Player of the Year honors. The
Big Green previously accomplished the feat in 2000 and 2001 when
Jacque Weitzel and Suzy Gibbons
were the recipients.
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
McMunn wasted no time making her presence felt for the Tigers,
with five points on two goals and three assists in her first career
game, a 16-3 win over Villanova. McMunn went on to set a Princeton
freshman record with 30 assists, which also marked the second-most
in Tigers history. She felt comfortable doing the scoring herself
as well, with 18 goals of her own for 48 points on the year.
McMunn tallied at least five points on four occasions, including
seven against Temple on April 4 in which she set a Princeton
single-game record with six assists. She led her squad with six
games of at least three assists, including that record-setting
performance against the Owls. McMunn led all Ivy freshmen in
assists and finished second in the League overall, ranking 25th in
the nation with 2.0 assists per game. She ranks third nationally
among freshman in assists and assists per game.
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
The first team is littered with returners, including Plumb, who
earned her third All-Ivy award, her second first team honor and her
first unanimous decision. Cornell attack Jessi
Steinberg (Suffern, N.Y.) received her third-consecutive
unanimous first team honor and Penn senior Erin
Brennan (Garden City, N.Y.) took home her fourth All-Ivy
honor, her third first team accolade and her second unanimous
selection.
The other unanimous selections were Penn junior midfielder
Maddie Poplawski (Springfield, Mass.) and senior
goalie Emily Leitner (Darien, Conn.), Princeton
senior midfielder Cassie Pyle (Alexandria, Va.)
and senior defender Lindsey deButts (Alexandria,
Va.), Cornell senior defender Cacki Helmer
(Manilus, N.Y.) and Harvard senior defender Ellen
Gleason (Binghamton, N.Y.).
A pair of attackers, Princeton junior Jaci
Gassaway (Longmeadow, Mass.) and Columbia junior
Kacie Johnson (Wilton, Conn.), earned their
second-straight All-Ivy honors after being named to the honorable
mention and second teams in 2011, respectively.
Brennan was Penn’s best offensive player, finishing with 26
points on 16 goals and 10 assists in Ivy action, all team-highs.
She scored at least three goals in six games, including hat tricks
against four Ivy opponents. Brennan tallied seven assists against
Rutgers on March 7, the highest single-game total in the League
this season.
Steinberg led the League in points per game during Ivy play,
averaging 4.29 per contest. She finished the regular season second
in goals (22) and goals per game (3.14) in League action, and tied
for fourth in assists (eight) and assists per game (1.14). She is
Cornell’s fifth three-time first-team All-Ivy winner and
first since Courtney Farrell and Katherine
Simmons (2006-07-08).
Gassaway finished with 23 points on 15 goals and eight assists in
Ivy play. She scored hat tricks against three Ivy opponents,
including six against Brown. Gassaway took her frustrations on
missing the Ivy League Tournament out on No. 8 Penn State, posting
six points on five goals and one assist in the Tigers’ 13-12
overtime victory.
Johnson was a bright spot during a tough season for Columbia,
finishing with 28 points on 17 goals and 11 assists in Ivy play and
73 points on 41 goals and 32 assists overall. She led the League in
points overall and finished second in points per game in Ivy games
(4.00).
Poplawski was a force offensively and defensively, scoring 14
goals while forcing a team-best seven caused turnovers in League
contests. Overall, Poplawski led the team with 53 draw controls and
ranked 17th in the country with 4.42 draw controls per game. She
earned her second-straight All-Ivy honor after being named
Honorable Mention in 2011.
Pyle scored 23 of her 38 goals in League games, leading her team
in that category. She also led the League in goals during Ivy play.
Five of the seven games in which she scored at least three goals
came in a League contest, including five against Columbia. The
award marks her second All-Ivy honor after she was named to the
second team as a junior.
deButts earned her third-straight first-team All-Ivy honor and her
second unanimous selection. She becomes Princeton’s
first three-time first team honoree since Theresa
Sherry (2002-03-04). In 2012, deButts finished with 34
groundballs, including 16 in Ivy action.
Gleason’s second-straight All-Ivy honor was also her first
on the first team. She is the first unanimous Crimson selected
since Jennfer VanderMeulen in 2010. Gleason was a
key defender for Harvard, which allowed a League-low 54 goals in
Ivy action. She grabbed 13 groundballs, 10 of which came in
conference play.
After two-straight years on the Honorable Mention team, Helmer
finds herself a unanimous selection to the first team, the first
Cornell defender to be honored this way since Tissy
O’Connor in 2009. Helmer led her team with 19
groundballs and 17 caused turnovers in League play and ranked
seventh in the nation in groundballs (3.07) and eighth nationally
in caused turnovers (2.0).
Leitner is the first unanimous selection at goalkeeper since the
Quakers’ Sarah Waxman received the honor in
2007. Leitner earned her second-straight All-Ivy recognition after
being named to the second team in 2011. She went 6-1 in Ivy play
with 43 saves and an 8.45 goals against average.
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY
The second team features the 2011 Ivy League Rookie of the Year,
Dartmouth sophomore Kristen Giovanniello (Old
Brookville, N.Y.), who was a first team selection in 2011. Another
2011 first-team All-Ivy recipient, Harvard senior midfielder
Melanie Baskind (Framingham, Mass.), earned second
team honors in 2012, marking her third-straight All-Ivy
recognition.
The Big Green placed four players on the second team, including
Giovanniello, senior attack Kirsten Goldberg
(Cockeysville, Md.) and a pair of senior defenders in
Georgia Bird (Summit, N.J.) and Hilary
Smith (Bronxville, N.Y.). Brown’s two 2012 All-Ivy
recipients appear on the second team in senior attack Kaela
McGilloway (Sea Cliff, N.Y.) and sophomore defender
Erin Roos (Wilmette, Ill.).
Cornell junior attack Caroline Salisbury
(Middletown, Md.) and midfielder Shannon McHugh
(Manilus, N.Y.) join Harvard junior midfielder Danielle
Tetreault (Guilderland, N.Y.) and Columbia senior defender
Amanda Goodhart (Alexandria, Va.) to round out the
rest of the second team.
McMunn appears on the honorable mention team, as does Harvard
freshman goalkeeper Kelly Weis (Garden City,
N.Y.), a two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week this
season. Harvard junior attack Jennifer
VanderMeulen (Liverpool, N.Y.) received her third-straight
All-Ivy honor after being named to the first team in 2010 and 2011.
Yale’s lone All-Ivy recipient appears on the honorable
mention squad in senior attack Caroline Crow
(Davidsonville, Md.), who led the Bulldogs with 17 goals and 21
points in Ivy play.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Sarah Plumb, Dartmouth, Sr. (Wellesley, Mass.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Erin McMunn, Princeton, Fr. (Westminster, Md.)
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY (13)^
A – * Erin Brennan, Penn, Sr. (Garden City,
N.Y.)
A – Jaci Gassaway, Princeton, Jr.
(Longmeadow, Mass.)
A – Kirsten Goldberg, Dartmouth, Sr.
(Cockeysville, Md.)
A – Kacie Johnson, Columbia, Jr. (Wilton,
Conn.)
A – *Jessi Steinberg, Cornell, Sr. (Suffern,
N.Y.)
M – Melanie Baskind, Harvard, Sr.
(Framingham, Mass.)
M – *Sarah Plumb, Dartmouth, Sr.
(Wellesley, Mass.)
M – *Maddie Poplawski, Penn, Jr.
(Springfield, Mass.)
M – *Cassie Pyle, Princeton, Sr.
(Alexandria, Va.)
D – *Lindsey deButts, Princeton, Sr.
(Alexandria, Va.)
D – *Ellen Gleason, Harvard, Sr.
(Binghamton, N.Y.)
D – *Caroline “Cacki” Helmer,
Cornell, Sr. (Manilus, N.Y.)
GK – *Emily Leitner, Penn, Sr. (Darien,
Conn.)
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY (14)^
A – Caroline Crow, Yale, Sr.
(Davidsonville, Md.)
A – Kaela McGilloway, Brown, Sr. (Sea
Cliff, N.Y.)
A – Erin McMunn, Princeton, Fr.
(Westminster, Md.)
A – Caroline Salisbury, Cornell, Jr.
(Middletown, Md.)
A – Courtney Tomchik, Penn, So. (Arnold,
Md.)
M – Micaela Cyr, Harvard, Jr. (Lexington,
Mass.)
M – Katie Kirk, Cornell, Sr. (Annapolis,
Md.)
M – Shannon McHugh, Cornell, Sr. (Manilus,
N.Y.)
M – Danielle Tetreault, Harvard, Jr.
(Guilderland, N.Y.)
D – Georgia Bird, Dartmouth, Sr. (Summit,
N.J.)
D – Amanda Goodhart, Columbia, Sr.
(Alexandria, Va.)
D – Erin Roos, Brown, So. (Wilmette,
Ill.)
D – Hilary Smith, Dartmouth, Sr.
(Bronxville, N.Y.)
GK – Kristen Giovanniello, Dartmouth, So.
(Old Brookville, N.Y.)
HONORABLE MENTION (13)
A – Jennifer VanderMeulen, Harvard, Jr.
(Liverpool, N.Y.)
M – Meredith Cain, Penn, Jr.
(Pittsburgh)
M – Paige Cuscovitch, Columbia, So.
(Longmeadow, Mass.)
M – Erin Slifer, Princeton, Fr. (Mt. Airy,
Md.)
D – Tayt Foussadier, Penn, Fr.
(Turnersville, N.J.)
D – Mariel Jenkins, Harvard, Jr. (Belle
Mead, N.J.)
D – Caroline Rehfuss, Princeton, Jr.
(Latham, N.Y.)
GK – Kelly Weis, Harvard, Fr. (Garden City,
N.Y.)
*unanimous selection
^expanded due to ties in the voting
