Goucher Places Five on 2009 All-Landmark Team

Goucher Places Five on 2009 All-Landmark Team

Tersigni Repeats on First Team, Other Four on Second Unit

May 6, 2009

MADISON, N.J. – Players from Goucher filled five of the spots on the 2009 All-Landmark Conference Women's Lacrosse Team that was unveiled today by the conference.

Of the five, only senior midfielder Marlo Tersigni (Boston, Mass./Lawrence Academy) was a first-team selection. The others – sophomore midfielder Colleen Cole (Holliston, Mass./Northfield Mt. Hebron School), senior midfielder/defender Jenny Lucey (Newbury, N.H./Kimball Union Academy), freshman attacker Becca Smith (Leesburg, Va./Heritage) and senior goalkeeper Brittany Foster (Portland, Maine/Portland) – earned spots on the All-Landmark second team.

The All-Landmark squad is composed of a first team and a second team with 14 honorees on each one. The selections were made by position and the voting was done by the conference's six head coaches.

Tersigni, who was also a first-team All-Landmark selection in 2008, led the Gophers in assists (21), points (57), draw controls (66) and caused turnovers (41) this season and ranked second in goals (36). Nationally, she ranked seventh in caused turnovers (2.64 per game) and 10th in draw controls (4.71 per game) in Division III.

A starter in all 15 games this season, Cole tallied 35 goals and handed out 20 assists for a total of 55 points. She also controlled 40 draws.

Lucey was a repeat second-team all-conference selection. In her first three seasons with the Gophers, she scored a total of four goals, but in 2009, she was one of five players on the team with at least 25 goals.

Smith is one of three freshman to be awarded All-Landmark recognition. She needed to take only 69 shots to finish with a team-high 37 goals, a .536 shooting percentage.

Foster compliled somewhat similar statistics in 2009 as she did last season when she was the Landmark's first-team goalkeeper. She made 183 saves as a senior (up from 162), her goals-against average dropped to 12.21 (from 14.50) and her save percentage increased from .429 to .468.