NCAC 30th Anniversary Women's Lacrosse All-Decade Team Allegheny's Jensen Paterson (2008-11) and Denison's Quinn Simmons (2005-08) spearhead an impressive list of players selected to the North Coast Athletic Conference's 30th Anniversary Women's Lacrosse All-Decade Team. Paterson and Simmons were the only two players selected to the all-decade team to have earned four-straight All-NCAC first-team nods in the last 10 years.
There were seven additional student-athletes named to the NCAC women's lacrosse 30th anniversary all-decade team that earned first-team all-conference citations in three different seasons in the last decade, including Kenyon defender Brigid Donahue (2009-11), Denison defender Molly Lamdin (2004-06), Kenyon goalie Chase Kreuter (2008-10), Allegheny attack Ashley Hughes (2005-07), Kenyon attack Leah Sack (2010-13), Wooster attack Megan Sward (2004-06) and Wooster midfielder Clare Nelson-Johnson (2011-13). Five of the seven earned an NCAC Player of the Year award during their careers with Offensive Player of the Year accolades going to Sack (2013) and Sward (2004), while Donahue (2011), Kreuter (2010) and Lamdin (2005) garnered the NCAC Defensive Player of the Year honor. While no current women's lacrosse student-athletes were named to the all-decade team, first-year Allegheny head coach Ashley Hughes becomes the first current head coach in the league to be named to an NCAC 30th Anniversary All-Decade team. The North Coast Athletic Conference is celebrating its 30th playing season by selecting All-Decade teams in nearly every championship sport. Players from the first 10 years of play were selected in 1993-94, while players who competed from 1993-2002 were named to the 20th Anniversary All-Decade team. All current head coaches were asked to vote, as were some former coaches and administrators. Four different schools collected an NCAC Women's Lacrosse championship in the past 10 years. Wooster opened the decade by claiming the 2004 crown, followed by Ohio Wesleyan in 2005, Denison in 2006, Wooster in 2007 and Ohio Wesleyan in 2008. There were consecutive strings of back-to-back streaks over the next four seasons with the Fighting Scots hoisting the trophy from 2009-10 and the Big Red earning the league title from 2011-12, while Kenyon is the defending league champion. Founded in 1983, the North Coast Athletic Conference currently consists of 10 academically selective NCAA Division III colleges and universities - Allegheny College, Denison University, DePauw University, Hiram College, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Wabash College, Wittenberg University and the College of Wooster along with affiliate member Earlham College (field hockey). The NCAC sponsors 23 championship sports, 11 for men and 12 for women.
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NCAC All-Decade Women's Lacrosse Teams
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