Nov. 19, 2008
Center Valley, Pa.--Ten Patriot League field hockey student-athletes were honored with 2008 Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-Region honors. The All-Region teams were announced Wednesday by the NFHCA office.
Six-time defending Patriot League Champion American University placed five members on the All-Mid Atlantic Team, including three First-Team performers. Senior Irene Schickhardt, the 2008 Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year, earned First-Team honors for the third time in her career. Schickhardt finished her career ranked second in Patriot League history in career points (142), second in assists (42) and fourth in goals (50). She was named First-Team All-Patriot League selection for the third straight year and earned Patriot League Field Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year this season. She led the league and her team with 45 points and scored a team-high eight game-winning goals. Junior Anne-Meike De Wiljes and sophomore Christine Fingerhuth joined Schickhardt on the First Team. De Wiljes was named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in 2008 after registering three goals, 10 assists and two defensive saves. Fingerhuth was named Patriot League Tournament Most Valuable Player after helping the Eagles to their sixth straight title. Her selection to the All-Region team marks the second time in as many years that Fingerhuth has received the honor.
Colgate, Lafayette and Patriot League Tournament runner-up Bucknell were all represented on the All-Mid-East Region Team. Bucknell placed two members on the team, including First-Team honoree Amanda Faust. A co-captain of the Orange and Blue, Faust is the first Bison field hockey player to be a three-time all-region selection, and one of two Bison players to be a four-time All-Patriot League honoree. Earlier this year Faust was selected as a NFHCA All-Star. This past summer, Faust was selected by the Pennsylvania High Performance Training Center to represent the state on its High Performance Squad. Faust finished the season ranked third in the Patriot League in scoring (32 points), and in the top-five in goals (11) and assists (10), setting or tying personal career highs in all three categories. Faust's teammate, senior Trina Boyer, was named a Second-Team All-Region performer. Boyer, a two-time All-Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and NFHCA All-Academic Squad selection, established career-highs this season in games started (19), shots (29), points (23), goals (10) and assists (three). A first time all-conference selection, she placed fifth in the League in goals and seventh in points. Bucknell had a 6-0 record in games when Boyer scored a goal this season, and an 11-2 mark over the past two years. Boyer's 17 goals over the past two seasons are the most of any Bison player, and she led the team, and ranked third in the conference, with four game-winning goals this season.
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Lafayette also received one First-Team selection and one Second-Team selection. Senior midfielder Maggie Condon was named to the First Team, while senior defender Jaclyn DiSanti received Second-Team honors. Condon picked up her second consecutive nod after being named to the First Team last season. The Second Team distinction is a first for DiSanti. The duo was honored earlier this month when they were selected to the Patriot League All-Tournament Team. Condon, a three-time All-Patriot League First Team honoree, finished the year leading the Leopards in points (35) for the second consecutive year. Of her 15 goals this year, DiSanti had an assist on nine of them. DiSanti finished the year with 12 assists to tie for fifth among Lafayette's all-time single-season assist leaders. The mark tied assistant coach Jennifer Stone, who tallied 12 assists in 2001. DiSanti finished her senior year with 14 points, a career-high.
Colgate's Lauren Carey rounded out the Patriot League All-Region selections. Carey, a First-Team All-Patriot League selection, finished third in the League in goals (12) and fourth in points (28).
