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BURLINGTON, Vt. – May 17, 2010 - Newly hired Vermont women’s basketball head coach Lori Gear McBride was introduced to the media and campus community at a press conference at Patrick Gymnasium on Monday afternoon.
Gear McBride spoke to the crowd about how much she has “revered” UVM and watched the program from her hometown of [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – May 5, 2010 – Three Catamounts earned America East Women’s Lacrosse accolades as the conference office announced the annual year-end awards. Sophomore Catie Izzo (Longmeadow, Mass.), junior Megan MacDonald (Wayland, Mass.) and sophomore Samantha Stern (Cherry Hill, N.J.) were honored by the league.
Izzo, a defender, was named to the America East All-Conference [...]
West Hartford, Ct. – March 13, 2010 -Vermont held off a furious second half rally by No. 19/21 Hartford after building an 18-point halftime lead. They went on to post a 55-50 victory over the Hawks at Chase Family Arena and win thier second consecutive America East title. The Catamounts also earn an automatic bid to [...]
Lyndon Center, Vt. – February 25, 2010 – Donna Lawson of the Lyndon State College women’s basketball team has been named Rookie of the Year in the North Atlantic Conference for the 2009-10 season.
Lawson, who won four of six Rookie of the Week honors in the NAC over the past several weeks, averaged 16.8 points [...]
Stony Brook, N.Y. – February 24, 2010 – May Kotsopoulos (Waterloo, Ontario), the leading scorer in America East, netted a game-high 19 points and teammate Courtnay Pilypaitis (Ottawa, Ontario) added her second straight double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Vermont Catamounts to a 64-49 victory at Stony Brook in America East [...]
Women’s Basketball
Albany, N.Y. – Feb. 6, 2010 – Vermont over Albany 72-63.
Courtnay Pilypaitis (Ottawa, Ontario) posted her sixth double-double of the year and 20th of her career with 24 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Vermont Catamounts to a come-from-behind victory over the Albany Great Danes at SEFCU Arena on Saturday afternoon.
Vermont, which leads [...]
Vermont College Sports Round-up for the Weekend of January 22-24, 2010
Women’s Hockey
Northfield, Vt. – January 23, 2010 – Norwich over Castleton 3-1
Three different Cadets scored goals, and sophomore G Chiara Traversa made 14 saves as the Norwich University women’s ice hockey team defeated Castleton State College, 3-1, in an ECAC East contest Saturday evening at [...]
Burlington, Vt. - January 21, 2010 – The all-time Division I scoring record at the University of Vermont has fallen. Perfectly enough, a senior from Colchester, Vt., is now the leading scorer in Division I history at UVM.
That record belongs to Chelsea Furlani, who recorded her 46th career point by scoring a goal on Sunday. Furlani [...]
Middlebury, Vt. – January 12, 2010 – Middlebury outshot UMass.-Boston 40-13 on its way to a 7-2 win over the Beacons (7-7) in a non-league game played at Kenyon Arena. Lauren Greer notched a hat-trick midway through the game, also earning an assist on the afternoon. The seventh-ranked Panthers (8-6) return to action on Friday [...]
Colchester, Vt. – January 8, 2010 -The Saint Michael’s College women’s basketball team broke a seven-game losing streak with a 64-48 victory versus Le Moyne College in league play on Saturday afternoon at the Ross Sports Center.
For the Purple Knights, sophomore Coreen Hennessy (Chatham, N.H./Fryeburg Academy) netted a career-high 12 points and added five rebounds [...]
