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Brown NCAC Defensive P-O-Y to Lead Sticker’s Awards
Postseason accolades rolled in for The College of Wooster’s field hockey team, which earned a share of the North Coast Athletic Conference championship, this week, highlighted by junior back Elayne Brown (West Armagh, Northern Ireland / Lurgan College) being named the NCAC Defensive Player of the Year. The league office announced its all-conference team and individual awards on Friday (Nov. 21), while the National Field Hockey Coaches Association issued the All-Great Lakes Region Team Monday (Nov. 17). Along with Brown, two other Wooster players — seniors Katie McCoy (Lancaster, Pa. / Manheim Twp.) and Julia Tryder (Lincoln, Mass. / Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) — garnered first-team recognition on both the all-conference and all-region teams. It marks the second-straight season for McCoy. Brown, an exchange student, anchored a Scot defense that shutout seven opponents and averaged 1.24 goals allowed on 10.52 shots per contest. She recorded two of Wooster’s 13 defensive saves, and also was a force on the offensive end, scoring three goals and assisting on five others for 11 points. McCoy, a midfielder, and Tryder, a back, were the other two cornerstones of the Scots’ defense (see team stats above). Along with playing a key role defensively, McCoy contributed two goals, including the lone score on a penalty stroke in a 1-0 win over rival Wittenberg University on Sept. 20, and six assists for 10 points. Tryder, who will play in the NFHCA’s Div. III North/South All-Star Game on Saturday (Nov. 22) at Lebanon Valley College, had two defensive saves as well as a career-high 11 points on three goals and five assists in 20 starts this fall. She only had two career points entering 2003.
Tryder’s identical twin sister, Alanna Tryder (Lincoln, Mass. / Lincoln-Sudbury Regional), was selected to the All-NCAC First Team for the first time in her career and lauded with second-team all-region honors for the second year in a row. The senior forward paced Wooster’s balanced offense, which saw nine players reach double figures in scoring, with 23 points on nine goals and five assists. Tryder’s 1.15 points per game ranked No. 8 in the conference this season, while she finished with 57 career points, including 25 goals. The Scots’ Angela Arnold (Columbus, Ohio / Thomas Worthington) and Lindsay Tingley (Rockville, Md. / Walter Johnson) were placed on both the All-NCAC and All-Great Lakes Region Second Teams. Arnold, a junior midfielder who received honorable mention on last year’s all-league team, picked up the second and third postseason honors of her career after being one of just four players to start all 21 of Wooster’s games, tallying six points on two goals and two assists, and playing a key role on defense (see team stats above). Tingley, a sophomore forward, also was a starter in every game and ranked second on the squad in scoring with 21 points coming on eight goals, including a hat trick at St. Mary’s (Md.) College, and five assists. Freshman forward Katy Baron (River Forest, Ill. / Oak Park & River Forest) received honorable mention on the all-conference team to round out the Scots’ award winners for 2003. Baron started all 21 games and finished third on the squad in scoring, finding the back of the cage six times, three of which accounted for game-winning goals, and passing out four assists for 16 points. As a team, Wooster went 15-6 overall for its fourth-straight year with 13 victories or more. In the NCAC, the Scots went 9-3 to tie for first-place with Oberlin College and Wittenberg University, earning the No. 2 seed for the NCAC Tournament, where they advanced to the finals but lost 1-0 in overtime at Wittenberg. |
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