Bio

Over the years, Goucher College has produced Division III All-Americans in at least five different sports, but only one student-athlete was the deserving recipient of All-America honors in more than one sport during the four years he or she attended the school: Michele (Mohlman) Dombrowski.

Dombrowski earned two letters playing basketball at Goucher and was a member of the only Goucher women's basketball team to have played in an NCAA Division III Championship. But it was in field hockey and lacrosse that she truly excelled.

She enjoyed immediate success on Goucher's field hockey team, scoring two goals against Hood in the first game of her career. In 1992, the only player on the team with more goals than the 15 she tallied as a freshman was Renie Amoss, with 23.

That would be the only season, however, in which Dombrowski wasn't the Gophers' leading scorer. She supplied 17 goals in 1993, followed that up with a 15-goal, 10-assist effort in 1994, and capped off her Goucher field hockey career with 13 goals and eight assists in 1995. Since then, no one has surpassed her career records of 60 goals and 144 points.

Dombrowski, who scored two of the goals when the Gophers captured their first Capital Athletic Conference title in field hockey in 1994 with a 3-0 triumph over Salisbury, was a first-team All-CAC forward all four seasons at Goucher. She became the first field hockey player in school history to be named a Division III All-American when she made the second team in 1994, and she moved up to the first team the following year.

In lacrosse, her achievements continued. Her 37 goals as a sophomore were the most by an individual on the team in 1994. She helped fuel runs to back-to-back CAC championships by scoring 32 goals in 1995 and 63 goals in 1996.

In 1995, she was an honorable mention on the Division III All-America Team and a first-team All-CAC midfielder; in 1996, she garnered first-team honors at the conference, region, and national levels.

Dombrowski won multiple honors in the academic arena, as well. She received the intercollegiate athletic department's Scholar-Athlete Award in 1995 and was recognized twice during her senior year by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America, as Academic All-America second team in the fall and first team in the spring. She also was selected to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

Dombrowski was named the NCAA Woman of the Year for the state of Maryland in 1996. The No. 14 jersey she wore all four seasons in field hockey and lacrosse was retired in ceremonies conducted in February 1999.