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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.