Photos courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications,
Princeton Athletic Communications and Yale Sports Publicity
PRINCETON, N.J. -- After a vote by the eight
Ivy League women’s soccer coaches, Princeton’s
Tyler Lussi was voted Offensive Player of the
Year, Yale’s Elise Wilcox was selected
Defensive Player of the Year and Harvard’s Dani
Stollar was named Rookie of the Year.
A Coach of the Year was voted upon for the first time in League
history, with Harvard’s Ray Leone garnering
the inaugural award.
Princeton sophomore forward Tyler Lussi
(Lutherville, Md.) led the League in goals (18) and points (39),
while also tallying three assists. Her 18 goals tied for the
second-best single season mark in Princeton history and her 39
points is the third-best single-season mark in Tigers program
history. Lussi also led the League in Ivy play with 11 goals and 23
points.
Lussi was also a unanimous first-team All-Ivy, improving upon her
honorable mention selection from last season. Lussi is
Princeton’s first Player of the Year and first unanimous
All-Ivy first team selection since Jen Hoy in
2012.
Yale senior goalkeeper Elise Wilcox (Seattle)
was stellar between the pipes all season, giving up just six goals
for a 0.50 goals against average, with 64 saves and a .914 save
percentage. She recorded a record of 4-2-4, including four
shutouts. Wilcox led the League in save percentage and goals
against average and finished second in saves.
Wilcox was even better in League action, with an Ivy-best 40
saves, .930 save percentage and a .38 goals against average. She
was also selected first-team All-Ivy, her first career All-Ivy
honor. She is the first Bulldog to receive Player of the Year
honors since Becky Brown in 2009.
Harvard freshman midfielder Dani Stollar
(Honolulu) started 12 of the her team’s 16 games, helping the
Crimson clinch the Ivy League title for the second-straight season.
Stollar scored three goals, including two gamewinners. She netted
the game’s only goal in a 1-0 win over San Francisco and then
tallied the gamewinner in a 2-0 victory over Cornell. She also
helped the Crimson limit opponents to 14 goals in 16 games.
Stollar gives Harvard consecutive Rookie of the Year honors, as
Midge Purce was the recipient last season. It
marks the first time one team earned Rookie of the Year in
back-to-back years since the Crimson accomplished the feat in 2007
(Katherine Sheeleigh) and 2008 (Melanie
Baskind).
The inaugural Ivy League women's soccer Coach of the Year honor
went to Ray Leone, who guided Harvard to its
second-straight Ivy League title. The Crimson became the first team
to successfully defend the Ivy title since it shared the 2008 title
with Princeton and won the 2009 title outright. Harvard also became
the first back-to-back outright champion since it won
three-straight from 1995-97.
Harvard, Princeton and Yale each placed three players on the
All-Ivy first team.
Crimson sophomore forward Midge Purce (Olney,
Md.) was a unanimous selection for the second-straight year after
posting 18 points on eight goals and two assists in 2014. She
finished second in the League with four gamewinners. Purce is the
first Crimson to receive first-team All-Ivy in each of her first
two years since Katherine Sheeleigh in
2007-08.
Harvard senior midfielder Meg Casscells-Hamby
(Winter Park, Fla.) finished with 10 points on three goals and a
team-best four assists en route to her fourth-straight All-Ivy
accolade and second first-team honor (2012).
Crimson junior defender Alika Keene (Mount Dora,
Fla.) started all 16 games and helped the Crimson post a 0.84 goals
against average on the year. She takes home her first career
All-Ivy honor.
Princeton senior midfielder Lauren Lazo
(Scottsdale, Ariz.) joined Lussi in receiving unanimous first-team
All-Ivy honors. Lazo led the League with 10 assists, while also
scoring eight goals for 26 points. She is a four-time All-Ivy
recipient, taking home her second first-team honor and first since
2012.
Tiger senior defender Gabrielle Ragazzo
(Jacksonville, Fla.) also was named to the first team, giving
Princeton three players on the first team for the first time since
four earned the honor in 2012. Ragazzo started all 15 games in
which she played and helped the Tigers post four shutouts on the
year.
Yale senior midfielder Meredith Speck (Rockville
Centre, N.Y.) and senior defender Muriel Battaglia
(Hinsdale, Ill.) joined Wilcox on the first team, giving the
Bulldogs three first-team recipients for the first time since
2011.
Speck tallied six points on two goals and two assists, including
one gamewinner. Battaglia tallied one assist from her defensive
position while helping the Bulldogs limit opponents to 14 goals in
16 games (0.84 GAA), with six shutouts.
Dartmouth placed two juniors on the first team in forward
Corey Delaney (Chatham, N.J.) and defender
Jackie Friedman (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).
Delaney finished second on the team with 11 points, on four goals
and three assists. She started all 17 games and tallied a pair of
gamewinners, against Penn and Harvard. Friedman finished with a
goal and two assists from her defensive spot, all while helping the
Big Green to hold opponents to just 11 games, a 0.60 GAA and nine
shutouts.
Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Penn were all represented on the
All-Ivy second team. Bears freshman defender Maclaine
Lehan (Shrewsbury, Mass.) played in every minute of every
game in her rookie campaign, helping Brown to hold opponents to 19
goals in 17 games. She is the first Bears freshman to earn All-Ivy
honors since Lindsay Cunningham was named
Honorable Mention in 2005.
Three Lions were named to the second team, as senior forward
Coleen Rizzo (Needham, Mass.) was joined by
freshmen defenders Natalie Ambrose (Sisters, Ore.)
and Kerry Manion (Westlake Village, Calif.). For
Rizzo, it marked her first career All-Ivy honor.
Penn junior midfielder Erin Mikolai (Quakertown,
Pa.) took home her second-straight All-Ivy honor after earning
first-team accolades last season, while senior Quaker midfielder
Kaitlyn Moore (San Leandro, Calif.) was named
All-Ivy for the first time in her career. Cornell senior midfielder
Claire MacManus (Rosemont, Pa.) received her
third-consecutive second-team All-Ivy accolade,
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Tyler Lussi, Princeton (So., F – Lutherville, Md.)
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Elise Wilcox, Yale (Sr., GK – Seattle)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Dani Stollar, Harvard (Fr., M – Honolulu)
COACH OF THE YEAR
Ray Leone, Harvard
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
Corey Delaney, Dartmouth (Jr., F – Chatham, N.J.)
*Tyler Lussi, Princeton (So., F – Lutherville, Md.)
*Midge Purce, Harvard (So., F – Olney, Md.)
Meg Casscells-Hamby, Harvard (Sr., M – Winter Park,
Fla.)
*Lauren Lazo, Princeton (Sr., M – Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Meredith Speck, Yale (Sr., M – Rockville Centre, N.Y.)
Muriel Battaglia, Yale (Sr., D – Hinsdale, Ill.)
Jackie Friedman, Dartmouth (Jr., D – Rancho Santa Fe,
Calif.)
Alika Keene, Harvard (Jr., D – Mount Dora, Fla.)
Gabrielle Ragazzo, Princeton (Sr., D – Jacksonville,
Fla.)
Elise Wilcox, Yale (Sr., GK – Seattle)
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Melissa Gavin, Yale (Sr., F – Duxbury, Mass.)
Coleen Rizzo, Columbia (Sr., F – Needham, Mass.)
Claire MacManus, Cornell (Sr., M – Rosemont, Pa.)
Erin Mikolai, Penn (Jr., M – Quakertown, Pa.)
Kaitlyn Moore, Penn (Sr., M – San Leandro, Calif.)
Natalie Ambrose, Columbia (Fr., D – Sisters, Ore.)
Bailey Gary, Harvard (So., D – Davis, Calif.)
Natalie Larkin, Princeton (Fr., D – Washington)
Maclaine Lehan, Brown (Fr., D – Shrewsbury, Mass.)
Kerry Manion, Columbia (Fr., D – Westlake Village,
Calif.)
Tatiana Saunders, Dartmouth (Sr., GK – Rye, N.Y.)
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Caroline Growney, Cornell (Jr., F – Albuquerque, N.M.)
Lucielle Kozlov, Dartmouth (Jr., F – Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada)
Charlotte Beach, Brown (Jr., M – New Haven, Conn.)
Ellie Crowell, Cornell (So., M – Hamburg, N.Y.)
Victoria Goode, Columbia (Sr., M – Wildwood, Mo.)
Carly Gould, Brown (So., M – Hampton Falls, N.H.)
Vanessa Gregoire, Princeton (Fr., M – Beaconsfield, Quebec,
Canada)
Dani Stollar, Harvard (Fr., M – Honolulu)
Haley Washburn, Harvard (Jr., M – Folsom, Calif.)
Erika Garcia, Harvard (Sr., D – Carson City, Nev.)
Anastasia Gillen, Brown (Sr., D – San Clemente, Calif.)
Carlin Hudson, Yale (Fr., D – Berkeley, Calif.)
Charlotte Tate, Cornell (Jr., D – Westlake, Ohio)
Laura Thurber, Dartmouth (Sr., D – Belmont, Mass.)
Kalijah Terrili, Penn (Jr., GK – Bronx, N.Y.)
* Unanimous Selection