Marie McKenna

Position:
Defense
Class:
Senior
High School:
Penn Charter
Hometown:
Glenside, Pa.

Sophomore Year (2009): A unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection ... named second-team All-America by the IWLCA and first-team All-America by womenslacrosse.com ... earned first-team all-region honors ... started all 18 games ... scored three goals and one assist ... had her first career goal against Temple on March 25 and her first assist at Yale on April 4 ... scored a goal against Dartmouth on April 18 and versus Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA Tournament ... had 39 ground balls, 29 caused turnovers and 19 draw controls ... had a season-best five ground balls versus Penn State and four against Duke, Virginia, Cornell, Yale and Harvard ... won a season-high four draw controls versus Columbia and Dartmouth ... caused a season-high five turnovers at Cornell and had four versus Duke and Harvard ... defense held opponents to 8.67 goals per game, the fifth-best scoring defense in the nation.

Junior Year (2008): Earned second-team All-America honors ... named first-team all-region and all-league ... started in all 18 games ... recorded 29 ground balls and 14 draw controls ... had the second most caused turnovers on the team with 23 ... had two shots both of which were on goal ... in the season opener at Johns Hopkins she had two caused turnovers, and one ground ball and draw control each ... caused two turnovers and had one ground ball against Duke on March 8 ... picked up two ground balls and one caused turnover at Penn State on March 15 ... scooped up three ground balls, two caused turnovers and a draw control versus James Madison on March 19 ... recorded a season-high three caused turnovers versus Virginia and added a ground ball ... had two ground balls versus Yale on April 5 ... had a season-best three draw controls at Harvard on April 12, and added one ground ball ... collected two ground balls and draw controls each versus Penn on April 16 ... had two caused turnovers, one draw control and one ground ball against Dartmouth and against Temple ... recorded three gorund balls, two caused turnovers and one draw control at Brown on April 26 ... caused two turnovers and had one ground ball versus Maryland on April 30 ... collected three ground balls and two caused turnovers at Georgetown on May 3 ... had a season-best four ground balls versus Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and added two draw controls and one caused turnover.

Sophomore Year (2007): Started the final six games after returning from an off-season knee injury and subsequent surgery ... first start came at Dartmouth on April 21 ... played in 11 games ... had 12 ground balls, nine draw controls and and four caused turnovers in those six starts ... had a strong game in the NCAA tournament against Virginia, collecting three draw controls and two ground balls ... picked up four ground balls and two caused turnovers in win over Dartmouth on April 21 ... two ground balls and two draw controls against Columbia on April 27 ... had two draw controls a day later against Brown on April 28.

Freshman Year (2006): Played in all 18 games ... started 11 of the first 12 games ... among the team leaders with 23 ground balls ... had nine caused turnovers and six draw controls ... picked up four ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover in her first career game at Johns Hopkins on March 4 ... had two ground balls and two caused turnovers at Loyola on March 8 ... recorded three ground balls against both Columbia on March 29 and Yale on April 8 ... three ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover in a win over Delaware on April 25.

Before Princeton: A three-sport athlete at Penn Charter, playing basketball, field hockey and lacrosse ... named team MVP as a senior ... earned first-team all-league and honorable mention All-America honors as a senior ... scored 63 goals and had 40 assists in 2005 ... had 56 goals and 24 assists as a junior ... honored with Penn Charter Alumni Award, given to one senior on the basis of scholarship, leadership and character ... named all-league in field hockey and in basketball ... field hockey team was two-time Inter-Ac League champions.

Personal: Full name is Marie Kind McKenna ... parents are Mark and Laura McKenna ... has two brothers, Dan (Princeton '04) and Michael (Princeton '06) who both played water polo for the Tigers, and a sister Anne (Harvard '12) ... majoring in history.