DURHAM, N.H. — University of New Hampshire and University at Albany, the top two teams seeds in the 2013 America East Field Hockey Championship, each took home three major awards as the conference’s top honors and all-conference teams were announced at banquet on UNH’s campus Wednesday evening. The award winners and all-conference teams were determined in a vote by the league’s head coaches who could not vote for their own team.The Wildcats’ Megan Bozek earned Defensive Player of the Year honors for the second-straight year, while UNH goalkeeper Carlie Tarbell was named Goalkeeper of the Year and their coaches, led by head coach Robin Balducci, earned Coaching Staff of the Year recognition. For Albany, Daphne Voormolen was tabbed Offensive Player of the Year and Paula Heuser earned both Midfielder and Rookie of the Year honors, becoming the first rookie to take home multiple major awards.Bozek is the second player to ever earn Defensive Player of the Year honors in consecutive seasons. The senior back, who is also a unanimous first-team all-league choice for the second-straight year, paced a UNH squad that won its fourth-straight America East regular-season crown in 2013. Powered by Bozek’s back line, UNH ranks second in America East in team goals-against average (1.72 GAA) and shutouts (5) and was even better in conference play, allowing just two goals in five league games and recording four shutouts. Bozek, who had three defensive saves, also contributed offensively with seven goals and three assists. Tarbell stood out in goal for the Wildcats all year long, but especially in the last six games to earn Goalkeeper of the Year accolades. The senior goalkeeper played every minute in goal for UNH this season, earning 12 wins. She led the conference in save percentage (.755) and shutouts (5) and ranked second in GAA (1.72). In league play, Tarbell allowed just two goals in five games and recorded four shutouts and over her last six games, all UNH wins, she allowed just one score and made 37 saves. A five-time America East Defensive Player of the Week, Tarbell is also the conference’s first-team all-conference keeper. New Hampshire’s coaching staff led the Wildcats to their fourth-straight regular-season championship and top seed for the conference tournament en route to earning Coaching Staff of the Year for the fourth-straight season. The Wildcats ran the table in America East, going 5-0 for the third time in four seasons and outscoring foes 22-2 in league games. Just the third team in conference history to win four-straight regular-season crowns, UNH, the 20th-ranked team, has won six straight games and 11 of 13 entering the tournament. Head Coach Robin Balducci, who set a new conference standard with her sixth honor, is assisted by Ross Gorham and Meg Shea.Voormolen is a repeat Offensive Player of the Year after sharing the award a year ago and is the first repeat winner in the 13-year history of the award. The senior forward, who was the MOP of last year’s America East Championship, ranks second in the league in points (39) and points per game (2.05), third in goals (15) and tied for third in goals per game (0.79) and assists (9) and tied for fourth in assists per game (0.47). Voormolen, whose output has helped Albany rank second nationally by scoring 4.32, earned Player of the Week honors on Sept. 23 after tallying 15 points in three Albany wins.Heuser is America East’s first player to claim both Rookie of the Year and another major award in the same season. Also the conference’s Midfielder of the Year, Heuser, leads America East in points (42), points per game (2.21), assists (10) and is tied for the league lead in goals (16). Heuser, a freshman, is 10th nationally in points per game and tied for 12th in goals per contest. Seventeen of her points and seven of her goals came in five league games. Heuser is a six-time America East Rookie of the Week, the most honors by any player since 1998.Voormolen, Bozek, Tarbell and Heuser are joined as first-team all-conference selections by Albany’s Corrine McConville, Fairfield’s Felicitas Heinen, Maine’s Annabelle Hamilton, Nicole Sevey and Holly Stewart and New Hampshire’s Meg Flatley and Casey Pohlmeyer. The all-conference second team consists of Albany’s Jordyn Homyak, Jaclyn Hibbs, Maxi Primus and Fiori Van Rijswijk, Fairfield’s Julie de Paeuw, Hillary Fitts and Shealyn Testa, Maine’s Francesca Rowley and Sydney Veljacic and New Hampshire’s Maegan Grew, Kellie Joyce, Hannah Richard and Melyssa Woods.de Paeuw, Heuser, Hibbs, Primus and Veljacic are also all-rookie honorees along with Maine’s Danielle Aviani and Natasha Ford, UMass Lowell’s Eleonore Agneessens and Georgia Cowderoy, New Hampshire’s Aggie Sutherland and Vermont’s Amy Grenier.Six all-conference choices are also all-academic honorees. Heinen, Homyak, Pohlmeyer, Stewart, Van Rijswijk and Voormolen are joined by Fairfield’s Val Burrma, Maine’s Becca Paradee, UMass Lowell’s Andrea Byrne and Melanie Hopkins and Vermont’s Kelly Bonner. To be eligible for all-academic, student-athletes must have sophomore athletic eligibility, attain a 3.30 minimum grade-point average and be a sigficant contributor athletically.