2007-08 Season In Review Now Available - AmericaEast.com

2007-08 Season In Review Now Available - AmericaEast.com

The 2007-08 Season in Review is now available online. Fans can view each section or download the entire document in PDF format.

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Sectional Season In Reviews:
Men's Basketball l Women's Basketball l Men's Soccer l Women's Soccer l Men's Lacrosse l Women's Lacrosse l Field Hockey l Volleyball l Cross Country l Indoor Track & Field l Swimming & Diving l Tennis l Golf l Softball l Baseball l Outdoor Track & Field l Commissioner's Cup l Academic Cup l Woman of the Year l Sportsmanship Awards l Scholar-Athletes of the Year

General Conference Notes:

? Hartford defeated Syracuse in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship. It marked the second time in as many attempts that the Hawks had won a game in the NCAA Tournament.

? Vermont earned a bid to the WNIT and defeated Dartmouth, 69-50, in a first-round game at Patrick Gym. America East is one of only four non-Football Bowl Subdivision Conferences to have received multiple bids to the postseason in women’s basketball in each of the last four years.

? UMBC won its first America East Men’s Basketball Championship with an 82-65 win over Hartford before a sellout crowd of 3,810 at RAC Arena and a national television audience on ESPN2. The Retrievers won a school-record 24 games and appeared in the NCAA Division I Championship for the first time.

? Vermont and Boston University each earned bids to the NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship as America East sent multiple teams to the tournament for the first time since 1996. Vermont defeated Dartmouth in its first round game to give America East at least one win in the NCAA Soccer Championship in six of the last seven years.

? Boston University met New Hampshire in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship as America East placed two teams into the tournament for the first time since 2000. Boston University was the No. 7 seed in the NCAA Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals, where the Terriers dropped an 8-5 decision to NCAA runner-up Penn. It marked the second time in America East history that a team had been a national seed in the tournament.

? Boston University made its third-straight appearance in the NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship after winning the America East Championship with a 2-1 victory at New Hampshire.

? UMBC played in the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship for the second-straight year where it dropped a 10-9 decision to Virginia in a first round game televised on ESPNU. UMBC won a school-record 12 games and was ranked No. 6 in the final regular season USILA poll. UMBC was one of three America East schools (Albany and Stony Brook were the others) to be nationally ranked during the season.

? UMBC’s Terry Kimener was chosen 8th overall by the Chicago Machine in the Major League Lacrosse Draft. Albany’s Jordan Levine was taken with the 10th pick by the New Jersey Pride. America East, the ACC and the Great Western Lacrosse League were the only conferences in the nation with two picks in the top 10. Albany’s Brett Queener was selected in the fifth round by the Rochester Rattlers.

? Binghamton’s Rory Quiller became the second National Champion in America East history when he won the pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Quiller won the event with a height of 18-0 ?. It marked the third time in his career that he had received All-American accolades. Quiller posted a career best 18-6 ? at the IC4A Championships in March.

? Boston University’s Marisa Ryan and Tahari James both set school records and earned All-American honors at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Ryan finished fifth in the 3,000 meters in 9:12.83 while James was sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 13.42 meters.

? Boston University advanced to the NCAA Field Hockey Championship quarterfinals with a 1-0 win over Iowa in the NCAA first round.

? Albany defeated Cleveland State, 3-0, in the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship, to become the first America East team to earn a win in the tournament.

? Stony Brook competed at the NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Ind. The Seawovles had qualified for the event by finishing second at the NCAA Northeast Regional in Boston. It marked the first time Stony Brook had qualified for the national championship meet.

? Cathy Parker of New Hampshire earned one of two at-large bids to the NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championship, where she won All-American honors after covering the 6,000-meter course in 20:53.4. It was the second-straight year that Parker had competed at the national championship meet.

? Boston University’s Tess Waresmith, the Women’s Most Outstanding Diver at the America East Championship, competed on both the one- and three-meter boards at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Columbus, Ohio. She was the first Terrier diver to qualify for the national championship meet since 1982.

? Boston University appeared in its 10th-straight NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship, traveling to No. 4 Stanford. Only Pepperdine has a longer active streak of consecutive NCAA appearances among teams from non-Football Bowl Series Conferences.

? Five America East players were chosen in the Major League Baseball Draft, led by Stony Brook’s Tom Koehler, who was selected in the 18th round by the Florida Marlins.

?Six America East athletes competed in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Des Moines, Iowa, where Ryan, James and Albany’s Luke Schoen earned All-America honors.