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Princeton University Athletics
Nine Players Named All-Ivy League
May 01, 2018 | Women's Lacrosse
Four Tigers captured first-team All-Ivy League honors and Chris Sailer was named co-Coach of the Year as the league office announced the All-Ivy League women's lacrosse teams this afternoon.
Freshman Kyla Sears, junior Elizabeth George, senior Ellie McNulty and junior Alex Argo were named first-team selections, with sophomore Tess D'Orsi, senior Camille Sullivan and freshman Sam Fish taking second-team honors. Defenders Marge Donovan and Nonie Andersen captured honorable mention honors.
Freshman attacker Kyla Sears leads the Tigers with 69 points, with 53 goals and 16 assists in 15 games. She is the top freshman scoring threat in the nation, averaging a top-ranked 4.60 points per game, and is 19th among all players. Her 53 goals this season rank sixth in Princeton single-season history, while she ranks ninth in points in a season. She is the all-time freshman scorer in Tiger history, surpassing a record of 59 that stood for 23 years. Sears also has 12 ground balls, nine caused turnovers and seven draws. In Ivy League action, she led the league in goals with 31 in seven games with three game-winning goals and an average of 5.57 points per game. Sears also holds the Ivy League record for freshman points in a season. Sears has scored in every game this season and has at least a hat trick in 11 of 15 games.
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Fellow attacker Elizabeth George has tallied 32 goals and six assists for 38 points in 13 games. She has net three-game winning goals, is fourth on the team in draws with 32 while adding eight ground balls and seven caused turnovers. In league action, George had 21 points in seven games, scoring 19 times. She has six games with a hat trick of better with a career-high six goals and one assist in the regular-season finale at Columbia.
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Ellie McNulty is fourth on the team in points with 31 as a midfielder, scoring 24 times and adding seven assists. She is second on the team in draws with 55, has caused 12 turnovers and has 25 ground balls. McNulty currently ranks fifth all-time at Princeton in draw controls with 111, and has the third-most in a single season this year with 55. In league play, McNulty won 29 draws and had 18 points in seven games. She matched her career high of seven draws in a win at Harvard in April.
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Junior Alex Argo anchors the defense, and she has a team-high 18 caused turnovers and is second in ground balls with 26 while winning three draws. She has helped the defense limit Ivy League teams to the second lowest goals against average.
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Tess D'Orsi is second on the team in scoring with 41 points on 30 goals and 11 assists. She twice scored five goals this year, at Temple and home against Syracuse. She had four goals and one assist in the regular season finale at Columbia.
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Midfielder Camille Sullivan is seventh on the team in scoring with 17 points. She has scored 14 goals and three assists. She ranks is third on the team in draws with 35, while adding 17 ground balls and causing eight turnovers. Sullivan recorded a hat trick at Lehigh this season and had three games in which she pulled in five draws, including in wins over Cornell and Columbia and in a one-goal loss to No. 2 Maryland.
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Sam Fish became the starting goaltender on March 31 in a win at Delaware, making a career-high 16 saves. Since that time she has posted a 6-1 record to go along with a .521 save percentage and a 10.26 goals against average. With a .507 save percentage on the season, Fish ranks 10th in the nation. In six games this year she has made double digit saves.
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Marge Donovan is Princeton's leader in draw controls with 61 and ground balls with 32. She also adds 11 caused turnovers. Her 61 draw controls are the second most in Princeton history in a single season, behind Abigail Gutstein's 67 from the 1995 season. She won a career-high nine against No. 16 Virginia and had seven in four games – two against Ivy opponents Harvard and Penn.
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Nonie Andersen has scored three goals and one assist as a defender. She has caused 10 turnovers, picked up 22 ground balls and won seven draws. Her best game of the season was in a win over Cornell, scoring on her own caused turnover, running the length of the field for the tally and won four draws.
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A US Lacrosse National Hall of Famer, Chris Sailer won her 14th Ivy League title at the helm of the Princeton Tigers this season. It marks her fifth consecutive Ivy League title. After beginning the season 4-4, Sailer has led her team on an 8-1 streak. During the year, Princeton lost a one-goal game to No. 2 Maryland and had a 14-goal win over No. 10 Penn.
Princeton hosts the Ivy League Tournament this weekend, May 4-6, at Class of 1952 Stadium. The Tigers are looking for their fourth tournament title, since the tournament was created in 2010, and second straight.
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Julia Glynn, Harvard
MIDFIELDER OF THE YEAR
Lindsey Ewertson, Columbia
DEFENDER OF THE YEAR
Natalie Stefan, Penn
GOALKEEPER OF THE YEAR
Kiera Vrindten, Dartmouth
CO-COACH OF THE YEAR
Chris Sailer, Princeton & Danielle Spencer, Dartmouth
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY ^
Victoria Kalamaras, Columbia (A)
*Ellie Carson, Dartmouth (A)
Julia Glynn, Harvard (A)
Keeley MacAfree, Harvard (A)
Gabby Rosenzweig, Penn (A)
Zoe Belodeau, Penn (A)
Kyla Sears, Princeton (A)
Elizabeth George, Princeton (A)
*Lindsey Ewertson, Columbia (M)
Joey Coffy, Cornell (M)
Katie Bourque, Dartmouth (M)
*Erin Barry, Penn (M)
Ellie McNulty, Princeton (M)
Marissa Hudgins, Brown (D)
*Natalie Stefan, Penn (D)
Alex Argo, Princeton (D)
Kiera Vrindten, Dartmouth (GK)
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY
Risa Mosenthal, Brown (A)
Emma DeGennaro, Brown (A)
Caroline Allen, Cornell (A)
Emily Rogers-Healion, Penn (A)
Tess D'Orsi, Princeton (A)
Izzy Nixon, Yale (A)
Caroline Zaffino, Brown (M)
Taylor Reed, Cornell (M)
Alex Condon, Penn (M)
Camille Sullivan, Princeton (M)
Madeleine Gramigna, Yale (M)
Kathryn Cavallo, Columbia (D)
Hannah O'Reilly, Cornell (D)
Kathryn Giroux, Dartmouth (D)
Katy Junior, Penn (D)
Sam Fish, Princeton (GK)
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Hafsa Moinuddin, Brown (A)
Alexandria Absey, Columbia (A)
Nicole Baiocco, Harvard (A)
Caroline Cummings, Penn (A)
Carolyn Paletta, Brown (M)
Marge Donovan, Princeton (D)
Nonie Andersen, Princeton (D)
Kelsey Gedin, Columbia (GK)
Mikaeila Cheeseman, Penn (GK)
Sydney Marks, Yale (GK)
^-first team expanded due to ties in the voting
