2007 Women’s Lacrosse THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY General Information About The College of New Jersey 2007 Address: PO Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 Women’s President: R. Barbara Gitenstein Director of Athletics: Kevin McHugh Lacrosse Senior Women’s Administrator: Dawn Henderson Founded: 1855 (as New Jersey State Normal School) Media Guide Enrollment: 6,000 (undergraduates) Nickname: Lions Colors: Blue and Gold Affiliation: NCAA Division III Conference: Independent About TCNJ Women’s Lacrosse Head Coach: Sharon Pfluger Trenton State College ’82 E-Mail Address: [email protected] Office Phone: 609.771.2243 Career Record: 306-23-1 (20 Seasons) Assistant Coaches: Robin Selbst, Trenton State College ’96 Jackie Scullin, The College of New Jersey ’05 Goalkeeper Coach: Gina Carey-Smith, Trenton State College ’93 2006 Record: 15-2 (NCAA Champions) Letterwinners Back/Lost: 19/6 Starters Back/Lost: 8/4 Head Athletic Trainer: Joe Camillone Assistant Athletic Trainer: Megan Guicheteau Equipment Manager: Tom Isaac Home Field: Lions’ Stadium (AstroTurf) Capacity: 6,000 For further information regarding TCNJ women’s lacrosse, please contact: Ann King, SID Lyle Fulton, Assistant SID O: 609.771.2517 O: 609.771.2266 H: 609.883.5602 C: 518.774.6888 F: 609.771.3067 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Results and Schedule Hotline: 609.771.2682 Table of Contents Head Coach . 3 Assistant Coaches . 5 All-Americans . 6 2007 Pre-Season Roster . 7 2007 Season Preview . 8 2007 Players to Watch . 10 2006 Results . 12 2006 Statistics . 13 TCNJ Athletics . 14 Visit www.tcnjathletics.com for more information on TCNJ’s 20 athletic programs. Lions’ Stadium . 15 About TCNJ . 16 Directions to the College . 17 2007 Schedule . 18 Photos by Steve Smith of NCAA Photos Head Coach Sharon Pfluger is directing the school’s program’s second third-place finish as TCNJ women’s lacrosse program for the 21st season lost 11-8 to Amherst College in the NCAA in 2007. Under her guidance, TCNJ has earned Semifinals. The 2000 season was a banner 11 NCAA Division III Championships, five one for the Lions as the team ended its perfect NCAA Runner-Up titles, and four third-place 17-0 campaign by capturing the NCAA finishes. Throughout Pfluger’s 21-year tenure Championship, defeating Williams College, as mentor of the women’s lacrosse team, she 14-8, for the title. has compiled an amazing 306-23-1 record for a .930 win percentage at the helm of Division TCNJ advanced to the 2001 NCAA Semifinals, III’s most successful women’s lacrosse pro - but dropped an 11-10 overtime heartbreaker gram. She collected her 300th win this past to Amherst. The Lions finished the season with season as the Lions defeated visiting Colorado an overall record of 12-2, while Pfluger was College, 15-5 on April 20 as she is now one named the Brine/IWLCA Metro Regional of only three NCAA Division III coaches to Coach of the Year. In 2002, TCNJ went unde - reach that milestone. feated for 17 games before falling 12-6 to Middlebury in the NCAA Championship game, The 1986 season, her first, witnessed the Lions posting a 17-1 campaign mark. History unable to defend their 1985 NCAA crown as repeated itself in 2003, as the Lions once again they lost 12-10 to Ursinus College, the nation - sported a flawless 15-0 record before losing Sharon Pfluger al runner-up from a year ago, in the title 12-10 to eventual national champion and Year of Service: 21st game. TCNJ regained the NCAA Championship nemesis, Amherst, in the NCAA Semifinals for Trenton State College ’82 in 1987, defeating Ursinus 8-7 in overtime. a 15-1 season log. Birth Date: November 16, 1960 For leading the 16-2 Lions to another NCAA Hometown: Pompton Lakes, NJ crown, Pfluger was named the 1987 Pfluger led TCNJ to an 18-1 mark and a sec - Education: BS, Health and Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches’ ond-place finish in the 2004 NCAA Division Physical Education Association (IWLCA) Division III Coach of the III Women’s Lacrosse Championship, suffering Year. A year later, TCNJ posted a 17-2 mark a 13-11 double overtime loss to Middlebury. and became the first Division III team to win For her efforts, she was named the IWLCA back-to-back titles as the squad handed Division III National Coach of the Year. William Smith College a 14-11 loss. The Lions snapped a four-year NCAA title In 1989, the Lions faced Ursinus in the final drought as TCNJ handed top-ranked and previ - game for the fourth time since the 1985 ously undefeated, Salisbury University, a 9-7 inception of the NCAA Division III Women’s loss in the 2005 championship game in Lions’ Lacrosse Championship. This time, TCNJ Stadium. Despite starting the 2005 campaign received the short end of the stick, losing 8-6 with a 1-2 mark, the Lions rebounded with 16 to the Bears and finishing the year 17-1. The consecutive wins to garner the program’s 12th Lions ended the 1990 season with a 12-3 NCAA crown and finish with a 16-2 record. record, falling 6-5 in overtime to Ursinus in Lauren Dougher was named the IWLCA/USL the NCAA Semifinals. Division III Midfielder of the Year as well as the NCAA Tournament MVP after setting the From the 1991 season to the 1996 season, tournament record for most points with 25. TCNJ was the team to beat in Division III as Pfluger’s troops won six consecutive NCAA TCNJ matched that feat again in 2006 as titles. In that span, the Lions posted an incredi - the Lions beat undefeated and top-ranked ble 93-1 mark, including five unbeaten sea - Gettysburg College in the title game with a sons. For guiding her squads to six straight decisive 10-4 victory to finish with a 15-2 lacrosse championships, Pfluger was twice record. Dougher was again tabbed the tourna - named the Brine/IWLCA South Atlantic ment’s MVP and left her mark in the NCAA Regional Coach of the Year (1995, 1996) and record books as the all-time leading goal 25 All-Americans were produced during that scorer in tournament play with 60. time, including four Lions being named Division III National ‘Field’ Players of the Year. Acknowledged as one of the premier women’s lacrosse coaches in Division III, After mounting an amazing win streak of 102 Pfluger became TCNJ’s all-time winningest games, which spanned from April 14, 1991 coach in the sport in less than six full years until May 18, 1997, the winning stretch was at her alma mater, moving ahead of Melissa halted by a 14-9 loss to Middlebury College in Magee, her predecessor and head coach during the 1997 NCAA title game to finish the season the early 1980s. Her teams have appeared in 14-1. During the 1998 season, Pfluger took a the NCAA Tournament 20 times, advancing to sabbatical from the women’s lacrosse team. In the NCAA Division III Championship game 1999, she returned and led the Lions to the on 16 occasions. TCNJ Women’s Lacrosse 3 Head Coach continued... Four times, Pfluger has coached squads to Fame’s charter class. She is one of just two consecutive national championships. First, female coaches (Pat Summitt being the other) from the fall of 1990 to the spring of 1992, featured in the NCAA Hall of Champions’ she earned four titles. Then Pfluger followed Legends of the Game display located in that up with four more from the 1995 Indianapolis, IN. women’s lacrosse title to the 1996 field hock - ey title. She picked up two more rings as the She authored a chapter for a book edited 1999 field hockey and 2000 lacrosse teams by Cecile Reynaud, PhD entitled, “She Can were victorious and then this past spring Coach: Tools for Success from 20 Top Women added the fourth set of back-to-back crowns Coaches,” which was published by Human giving the Lions titles in 2005 and 2006. Kinetics Publishers in March 2005. Pfluger’s chapter focuses on team cohesion. Over the course of her career, Pfluger has been honored several times. During the 1991 During the fall of 2006, Pfluger will be NCAA Division I and III Women’s Lacrosse awarded the 2005–2006 Roy Van Ness Award Championships, she was the recipient of the for her accomplishments during the year. The NCAA 10th Anniversary Outstanding Service citation marks the fourth time in her career Award for her accomplishments in women’s that she has been awarded the honor by her lacrosse. Since 1989, Pfluger has served on the peers. The 2006 presentation of the award NCAA Regional Advisory Committee and marks the 20th year, the Roy Van Ness Award assisted in coaching the U.S. Women’s Lacrosse has been handed out to a Lion coach. The Squad from 1987 to 1989. She received the award is given annually to a TCNJ coach who Outstanding Achievement Award from the exemplifies the College’s ideals of dedication March of Dimes in 1990, while the and hard work. Philadelphia Sportswriters Association cited her with the Outstanding Achievement Award Pfluger was an assistant coach at Drew in both 1991 and 1992. On November 15, University in 1982 for field hockey and in 1992, Pfluger became the first woman 1984 for lacrosse, and the head field hockey honored by the Trenton Select Committee. In coach at Kean College in 1983 and at 1995, she was honored with the Bea Marwick Montclair State College in 1984, prior to her Award for outstanding support and service to return to the College.