Four Tigers Tabbed Preseason All-America; Princeton Ranked Eighth

Four Princeton Tigers have earned preseason All-America status by Inside Lacrosse in the magazine's 2019 Face-Off Yearbook issue. As a team, Princeton has been picked No. 8 in the preseason rankings.

Sophomore Kyla Sears has been named to the third team, while junior Tess D'Orsi, senior Elizabeth George and sophomore Sam Fish are honorable mention.

A second-team IWLCA All-America in 2018, Sears led the Tigers in scoring with 83 points in 19 games. She scored 64 goals and 19 assists and led the nation's rookies in points per game at the end of the regular season. Sears had at least one point in every game this season and had at least a hat trick in 13 of her 19 games. Sears recorded the single season record for free-position goals with 20, had the second most goals in a single season with 64 and third most points with 83. She is the all-time Princeton and Ivy League freshmen scorer and goal scorer. Sears was also named first-team all-region, first-team all-Ivy League and Ivy League All-Tournament.

D'Orsi finished second on the team in scoring in her sophomore season with 56 points, scoring 42 goals and adding 14 assists. She became the 34th member of the Princeton Century Club, netting her 100th point against Penn in the Ivy League Championship. She was named to the Ivy League All-Tournament team and was a second-team All-Ivy League selection. During her freshman year, when she was named to the Inside Lacrosse All-Rookie Team, she finished third on the team in scoring with 51 points.

The Ivy League Tournament MVP, George is also a first-team All-Ivy selection. Last season she set the Princeton record for draw controls in a game with 11 against Columbia in the Ivy League Tournament and ranks fourth in single-season draws with 57. In 17 games she scored 43 goals and six assists and had eight games in which she scored at least a hat trick.

Fish became the starting goaltender on March 31 in a win at Delaware, making a career-high 16 saves. She went 9-2 after that point and posted a 10-4 overall record. She finished with a .495 save percentage and a 10.58 goals against average. Fish had eight games with at least 10 saves and was a second-team All-Ivy League selection.

Princeton returns more than 75 percent of its scoring from last season and nearly 80 percent of its starting lineup. The Tigers incoming class is ranked No. 8 by Inside Lacrosse with five freshmen on the Power 100 list.

The Tigers are coming off of their 14th League title, fifth straight, and 26th appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

Princeton opens the 2019 season on Saturday, Feb. 16 hosting Temple at Sherrerd Field at 1 p.m.

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