Courtesy: Vermont Athletic Communications
BURLINGTON, Vt. ? Vermont’s Kristen Millar (Whitby, Ontario) has been named to the Canadian U-19 Women’s Lacrosse World Cup Team. Team Canada’s head coach Jen Johnson, who is also the head coach at Vermont, made the announcement today.
Millar was one of 18 players selected to the final team that will compete in the IWFLA U-19 World Championships at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario from August 4-11, 2007.
Millar, who will be a junior at Vermont in 2007-08, finished the 2007 season as the national leader in draw controls per game among Division I schools. She averaged 5.35 draw controls per game, 91 total, and enters the 2008 campaign ranked sixth all-time among NCAA leaders with 183 career draw controls. She also ranked seventh nationally in ground balls per game (3.35).
She was named to the IWLCA Division I Northeast Regional All-America Second Team for the second straight year and is the only Catamount in the program’s history to have garnered IWLCA Regional All-America honors.
One of the top players in America East, Millar led Vermont in scoring for the second straight year with 65 points (45 goals, 19, assists), one shy of tying the program’s record for most points in a single-season. Her team-leading 45 goals this season ranks fourth among the most in a single-season at Vermont. She also led the Catamounts in ground balls (57), draw controls (91) and caused turnovers (25).
Millar, an America East All-Conference First Team selection, shattered the all-time record at Vermont in draw controls in just two seasons, she set the mark last year with her 92 draw controls as a freshman, breaking the mark of 83 held by all-time leading scorer Vanessa Cox ?05.
Millar, the team’s co-MVP, led America East in total points (65), goals (45), ground balls (57) and draw controls (91).
In 2007, Millar became the seventh player at UVM to reach the 100-point milestone. She reached the mark in 28 career games, the fastest in school history and the second fastest in America East history.
Millar will be one of two Catamounts competing in the IWFLA U-19 World Championships. She will be joined by newcomer Rebecca Banyard who is a member of the Australian U-19 team. Banyard is a native of Floreat, Australia, a suburb of Perth, and will join the Vermont program for the 2007-08 season. She is the second international recruit in the history Vermont women's lacrosse program.