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Lussi Named Ivy Offensive Player of the Year as Five Tigers Earn All-Ivy
November 12, 2014 | Women's Soccer
Princeton sophomore Tyler Lussi is the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Year and one of five Tigers to earn All-Ivy League honors, the league office announced Wednesday.
The league split Player of the Year awards into Offensive and Defensive for the 2013 season, and Lussi is the first Tiger to win one of those awards since the split. Lussi is the ninth Tiger to win an Ivy League Player of the Year award and second in three years, including Jen Hoy '13 in 2012. It is the seventh time a Princeton player has earned an Ivy League Player of the Year award in Julie Shackford's 20-season tenure, which came to an end this season. Since 2001, Princeton players have earned Ivy League Player of the Year honors in seven of 13 seasons.
Lussi scored more than twice as many goals as any player in the league on the season, putting in 18 goals to match the second-most scored in a season in Princeton program history. Lussi also led the league in shots (78), points (39), points per game (2.44), goals per game (1.12) and game-winning goals (five).
Lussi also ranked highly across Division I in many of the same categories. Through last weekend's games, Lussi was No. 2 in the nation in goals per game, No. 3 in the nation in points per game, No. 6 in the nation in total goals, and No. 9 in the nation in total points.
At the midway point of her Princeton career, Lussi is tied for fifth in program history with 28 career goals, more than halfway to record-holder and current assistant coach Esmeralda Negron '05. Her 63 points are seventh in program history, also more than halfway to Negron, who holds the record at 112.
Lussi is also halfway to an achievement that teammate Lauren Lazo reached upon the Ivy League's announcement, as Lazo's first-team All-Ivy League recognition is the fourth all-league honor of her career. Lazo is the first Tiger to earn four All-Ivy honors since Diana Matheson '08, and Lussi earned honorable mention all-league a year ago.
Lazo and Lussi were both unanimous first-team all-league honorees, two of three such players across the league to achieve first-team honors with every possible vote. Together with Gabrielle Ragazzo, Princeton received three first-team all-league nods as the 11 spots on the league's first team were divided among four schools: Princeton (three), Harvard (three), Yale (three) and Dartmouth (two).
Lazo, who was a second-teamer a year ago, a first-teamer in 2012 and an honorable mention as a freshman, had eight goals and 10 assists, giving her 26 assists for her career to tie Matheson for the program's all-time high. Her 10 assists were the second-most in a season in program history behind the 12 that Negron had in 2004, and her 28 career goals are tied with Lussi for the fifth-most in program annals. Lazo's 82 career points are the fifth-most all-time in a Princeton player's career.
Ragazzo, a defender and senior classmate of Lazo, started all 15 games in which she played, earning All-Ivy League honors for the first time in her career.
Two members of Princeton's freshman class were honored, with defender Natalie Larkin and midfielder Vanessa Gregoire earning second-team All-Ivy and honorable mention recognition, respectively.
Larkin started all 15 games in which she played and tallied six assists, tallying three of those in Princeton's final non-conference game against North Carolina State on Nov. 4. Gregoire's nine points, on a goal and seven assists, were good for fourth on the team. Gregoire also had a three-assist game, with hers coming against Harvard on Oct. 25.
Princeton finished the season 7-6-3 overall and 3-3-1 in the Ivy League, staying in the race for a share of the league title until the season's final day. Through last weekend's games, Princeton ranked 29th in the nation in scoring offense, 16th in total assists and sixth in assists per game.
The full list of Ivy League honorees is below:
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Tyler Lussi, Princeton (So., F – Lutherville, Md.)
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Elise Wilcox, Yale (Sr., GK – Seattle)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Dani Stollar, Harvard (Fr., M – Honolulu)
COACH OF THE YEAR
Ray Leone, Harvard
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY
Corey Delaney, Dartmouth (Jr., F – Chatham, N.J.)
*Tyler Lussi, Princeton (So., F – Lutherville, Md.)
*Midge Purce, Harvard (So., F – Olney, Md.)
Meg Casscells-Hamby, Harvard (Sr., M – Winter Park, Fla.)
*Lauren Lazo, Princeton (Sr., M – Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Meredith Speck, Yale (Sr., M – Rockville Centre, N.Y.)
Muriel Battaglia, Yale (Sr., D – Hinsdale, Ill.)
Jackie Friedman, Dartmouth (Jr., D – Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.)
Alika Keene, Harvard (Jr., D – Mount Dora, Fla.)
Gabrielle Ragazzo, Princeton (Sr., D – Jacksonville, Fla.)
Elise Wilcox, Yale (Sr., GK – Seattle)
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY
Melissa Gavin, Yale (Sr., F – Duxbury, Mass.)
Coleen Rizzo, Columbia (Sr., F – Needham, Mass.)
Claire MacManus, Cornell (Sr., M – Rosemont, Pa.)
Erin Mikolai, Penn (Jr., M – Quakertown, Pa.)
Kaitlyn Moore, Penn (Sr., M – San Leandro, Calif.)
Natalie Ambrose, Columbia (Fr., D – Sisters, Ore.)
Bailey Gary, Harvard (So., D – Davis, Calif.)
Natalie Larkin, Princeton (Fr., D – Washington)
Maclaine Lehan, Brown (Fr., D – Shrewsbury, Mass.)
Kerry Manion, Columbia (Fr., D – Westlake Village, Calif.)
Tatiana Saunders, Dartmouth (Sr., GK – Rye, N.Y.)
HONORABLE MENTION
Caroline Growney, Cornell (Jr., F – Albuquerque, N.M.)
Lucielle Kozlov, Dartmouth (Jr., F – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Charlotte Beach, Brown (Jr., M – New Haven, Conn.)
Ellie Crowell, Cornell (So., M – Hamburg, N.Y.)
Victoria Goode, Columbia (Sr., M – Wildwood, Mo.)
Carly Gould, Brown (So., M – Hampton Falls, N.H.)
Vanessa Gregoire, Princeton (Fr., M – Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada)
Dani Stollar, Harvard (Fr., M – Honolulu)
Haley Washburn, Harvard (Jr., M – Folsom, Calif.)
Erika Garcia, Harvard (Sr., D – Carson City, Nev.)
Anastasia Gillen, Brown (Sr., D – San Clemente, Calif.)
Carlin Hudson, Yale (Fr., D – Berkeley, Calif.)
Charlotte Tate, Cornell (Jr., D – Westlake, Ohio)
Laura Thurber, Dartmouth (Sr., D – Belmont, Mass.)
Kalijah Terrili, Penn (Jr., GK – Bronx, N.Y.)
* Unanimous Selection