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Slifer and Sailer Earn Major Awards and Five Earn All-Ivy Honors
April 30, 2015 | Women's Lacrosse
PRINCETON, N.J. (4/30/15) - Princeton senior Erin Slifer has been unanimously selected as the 2015 Ivy League Midfielder of the Year and Chris Sailer was named the inaugural Coach of the Year as the league office announced the All-Ivy League teams this afternoon.
Earning first-team all-Ivy honors were Slifer, sophomore attacker Olivia Hompe and junior defender Liz Bannantine. Senior Erin McMunn and sophomore Anna Doherty were named to the second team.
In addition to being the unanimous Midfielder of the Year, Slifer was a unanimous selection to the first team. This is the second straight season Princeton has had a unanimous selection for Midfielder of the Year, as Sarah Lloyd earned the honor last year. Slifer was named the National Player of the Week twice this season and was a three-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week. She leads the team in points with 55 on 36 goals and 19 assists, and has a team-high 22 ground balls. She adds 12 caused turnovers and 19 draw controls. Slifer had four six-point games this season and scored four or more goals six times. Slifer currently ranks 14th on Princeton's all-time scoring list with 163 points, is third in assists with 70 and is eighth in draw controls with 100. Slifer was a first-team all-Ivy selection as a junior and honorable mention as a freshman.
Another unanimous first-team selection is Hompe. Hompe is Princeton's leading goal scorer with 39 goals and 15 assists to rank second on the team in points with 54. She adds 24 draw controls, 19 ground balls, and seven caused turnovers. Hompe is currently riding a 14-game goal-scoring streak and scored her 100th career point on Saturday against Brown. She is just the fourth player in Princeton history to reach 100 points as a sophomore. The Tigers are 6-0 when Hompe scores more than two goals this season and had her best Ivy League outing against Harvard when she scored five times. Hompe was named the league's Offensive Player of the Week on April 20.
Bannantine has earned two previous second-team all-Ivy honors and makes an appearance on the first team this year. A defender, Bannantine has started in 14 games and has 13 ground balls, eight caused turnovers and eight draw controls. Her best outing of the season, statistically, game against No. 13 Penn State when she picked off a pass with 16 seconds left and Princeton up one goal. It was her third caused turnover of the game, while she also won three ground balls.
McMunn finishes her career with a mention on the Ivy League teams each season. The 2012 Ivy League Rookie of the Year was also the 2013 Ivy League Attacker of the Year. McMunn is third on the team in scoring with 35 points on 22 goals and 13 assists in 13 games. She has 22 draw control wins, nine ground balls and six caused turnovers. McMunn is this week's Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week, her fifth career weekly honor. She currently ranks fourth all time in scoring at Princeton with 208 points on 124 goals and 84 assists. She is just the sixth Tiger in history to reach 200 points. This season she became the program's all-time assist leader and has 84 assists, while also ranking 10th in career draw controls with 98.
Doherty earns her first Ivy League honor as a member of the second team, incidentally along with her sister Christina of Yale. Doherty has scored 18 goals and three assists for 21 points. She leads the team in caused turnovers with 15, has the second-most draw controls on the team with 25, while adding 17 ground balls.
This is the first year the Ivy League is honoring a Coach of the Year and it goes to none-other-than Hall of Fame coach Chris Sailer. This is Sailer's 11th Ivy League title at the helm of the Princeton program. She won her 350th career game this season in a 17-12 win over Harvard. Including this year's selections, Sailer has now coached 13 Ivy League Players of the Year and 86 first-team All-Ivy selections.
Princeton won the Ivy League title outright on Saturday with a 14-8 victory over Brown, to finished with a perfect 7-0 conference record. At 12-3 overall, the Tigers are ranked No. 11 in both national polls this week.
ATTACKER OF THE YEARTory Bensen, Penn (Sr., A – Darien, Conn.)
MIDFIELDER OF THE YEAR
*Erin Slifer, Princeton (Sr., M – Mt. Airy, Md.)
DEFENDER OF THE YEAR
Meg Markham, Penn (Sr., D – Manhasset, N.Y.)
COACH OF THE YEAR
Chris Sailer, Princeton
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY
*Tory Bensen, Penn (Sr., A – Darien, Conn.)
*Olivia Hompe, Princeton (So., A – New Canaan, Conn.)
Jaclyn Leto, Dartmouth (Jr., A – Chatham, N.J.)
Marisa Romeo, Harvard (So., A – Syracuse, N.Y.)
*Lindsay Toppe, Cornell (Sr., A – Bedford, N.Y.)
*Amie Dickson, Cornell (So., M – Greenwich, Conn.)
*Erin Slifer, Princeton (Sr., M – Mt. Airy, Md.)
Audrey Todd, Harvard (Jr., M – Baltimore)
Liz Bannantine, Princeton (Jr., D – Baltimore)
Emma Ford, Harvard (So., D – Skaneateles, N.Y.)
Meg Markham, Penn (Sr., D – Manhasset, N.Y.)
*Lucy Ferguson, Penn (Sr., G – Montclair, N.J.)
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY^
Nina Corcoran, Penn (Jr., A – Point Lookout, N.Y.)
Kerri Fleishhacker, Yale (Sr., A – Manhasset, N.Y.)
Caroline Joy, Columbia (So., A – Baltimore)
Erin McMunn, Princeton (Sr., A – Westminster, Md.)
Emily Tripodi, Cornell (Jr., A – Syracuse, N.Y.)
Frances Bird, Dartmouth (Sr., M – Summit, N.J.)
Anna Doherty, Princeton (So., M – Bernardsville, N.J.)
Christina Doherty, Yale (Sr., M – Bernardsville, N.J.)
Julia Glynn, Harvard (Fr., M – Manhasset, N.Y.)
Sarah Hefner, Cornell (Sr., M – Bel Air, Md.)
Taylor Quinn, Columbia (So., M – Radnor, Pa.)
Lely DeSimone, Penn (Jr., M – Airmont, N.Y.)
Alyssa Dibona, Brown (Sr., D – Media, Pa.)
Tayt Foussadier, Penn (Sr., D – Turnersville, N.J.)
Claire MacManus, Cornell (Sr., D – Rosemont, Pa.)
Victoria Moore, Yale (So., D – Concord, Mass.)
Kelsey Gedin, Columbia (Fr., G – Kinsale, Va.)
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Jane Gion, Brown (Sr., A – Northfield, Ill.)
Sarah Byrne, Dartmouth (Sr., M – West Hartford, Conn.)
Tory Waldstein, Harvard (Jr., D – Needham, Mass.)
Erin Mullins, Yale (Sr., G – Garden City, N.Y.)
*-unanimous selection
^-second team expanded to 17 due to ties in the voting