2011 News

MADISON, N.J. — The Landmark Conference today announced the names of the 32 student-athletes who make up the 2011 Fall Landmark All-Academic Team, which recognizes two male and two female athletes who have excelled athletically and academically from each of the eight Landmark institutions.

MADISON, N.J. — The Landmark Conference, which is in its fifth year of competition and is comprised of eight like-minded institutions in the mid-Atlantic region, today recognized 248 student-athletes for their academic accomplishments by placing them on the on the 2011 Fall Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll. Twenty-nine of the honorees are from Goucher.

MADISON, N.J. — Goucher landed a pair of players — sophomore outside hitter Megan Chalk (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and sophomore middle hitter Trish Kallis (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) — on the 2011 All-Landmark Conference Volleyball Team, which was revealed today.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Goucher's 2011 season came to an end tonight when the Gophers played a pair of competitive sets against third-seeded Catholic in the quarterfinals of the Landmark Conference postseason tournament only to bow to the Cardinals, 3-0.

TOWSON, Md. — Playing in front of the largest home crowd in the history of Goucher's volleyball program, head coach Michael Bossom's Gophers defeated Notre Dame (Md.), 3-0, tonight.

MADISON, N.J. — Goucher's Megan Chalk (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park), who tied the school record for most kills in a four-set match when the Gophers defeated the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy on Saturday, was recognized today by the Landmark Conference as the Volleyball Player of the Week for Oct. 10-16.

CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Goucher prevailed in four of the seven sets it played against two non-conference opponents this evening, needing only three sets to put away Wesley, but bowing to Washington (Md.) in four sets.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher went into its final match this afternoon needing a win over Marymount to finish in third place in its own five-team tournament. The Gophers, however, went down in five sets and wound up in fourth behind the Saints in the final standings at the Goucher Invitational.

BALTIMORE, Md. — On the strength of a .354 attack percentage, Goucher put away Notre Dame (Md.) in four sets tonight for just its second win in its last 10 matches.

HUNTINGDON, Pa. — Goucher went four sets with Susquehanna and just three with both Catholic and Moravian while going 0-3 in the first set of Landmark Conference matches that took place this weekend.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher picked up just its second victory over McDaniel in the last 11 meetings between the in-state rivals tonight as the Gophers polished off the visiting Green Terror tonight in three sets.
UNION, N.J. — Only one of the four matches Goucher was involved in this weekend at the Cougar Classic was over in three sets. Unfortunately the outcome was the same all four times as the Gophers bowed to Ithaca in three sets and to Southern Vermont, Kean and Philadelphia Biblical in four.

TOWSON, Md. — To get over .500 for the first time all season tonight, Goucher was going to have to defeat an opponent that it hasn't conquered since 1997.

BRYN ATHYN, Pa. — Goucher needed only the minimum of nine sets to pick up three victories today that enabled head coach Michael Bossom's Gophers to get back to .500.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Goucher allowed a four-point lead late in the second set of this evening's match against Stevenson to slip away and with it went the Gophers' chances of knocking their local rival from the ranks of the unbeaten.

BALTIMORE, Md. — Goucher had a chance to come away with a split of its four matches at the season-opening Johns Hopkins Invitational, but the Gophers bowed to Meredith, 3-2, in the final match this afternoon.