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Princeton University Athletics
Four Tigers Named to IWLCA/USLacrosse Mid-Atlantic All-Regional Team
May 18, 2005 | Women's Lacrosse
May 18, 2005
Four Princeton women's lacrosse players--Lindsey Biles, Katie Lewis-Lamonica, Elizabeth Pillion, and Lauren Vance--have been named to the IWLCA/USLacrosse Mid-Atlantic All-Regional first team in voting announced Wednesday.
All four of those players are now eligible for the IWLCA/USLacrosse All-America teams, which are released next Sunday in conjunction with the NCAA championship game at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Biles, the 2005 Ivy League Co-Player of the Year, led the Tigers with 55 goals and 71 points, her second straight season with those exact impressive numbers. A first-team All-Ivy pick and a semifinalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy, she finished her career second all-time at Princeton with 175 goals and 221 points. Her 55 goals were, for the second straight season, one shy of equaling the program single-season record of 56 set by Cristi Samaras in 1998.
Lewis-Lamonica was the 2005 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, scoring 28 goals as a freshman and finishing among the team leaders in draw controls, ground balls and caused turnovers. A second-team All-Ivy pick for the Tigers, she scored five goals against Maryland May 4.
Pillion, a first-team All-Ivy selection, missed much of Princeton's final four regular-season games with a hamstring injury but still finished the year with 27 goals and 38 points. She had six goals against Penn State early in the season, three against Maryland in the NCAA tournament and led Princeton in draw controls despite missing those games.
Vance, the Tigers' top defender, was also a unanimous first-team All-Ivy choice along with Biles and Pillion. She led Princeton field players with 49 ground balls in 2005 and was also the team leader in caused turnovers with 36.
Only five teams were represented on the 16-player first-team All Mid-Atlantic group. Northwestern and Penn State each had five, Princeton had four and Notre Dame and Duquesne each had one. 32 players in all three regions (North, Mid-Atlantic, South) earned either first-team or second-team all-region honors. Princeton finished the 2005 season with a 13-5 overall record, falling to top-seeded Northwestern by an 8-6 score in an NCAA quarterfinal game in Evanston, Ill., this past Sunday. The Tigers reached the NCAA tournament for the eighth straight season and the 15th time in program history.