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2008 Women's Lacrosse

99 Sarah Waxman

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Sidwell Friends

Biography

2008 - IWLCA National Goalkeeper of the Year ... First-Team All-America (IWLCA) ... First-Team All-Region (IWLCA) ... Second-Team All-America (Inside Lacrosse) ... Unanimous first-team All-Ivy ...Led the nation in goals-against average at 6.27 ... Finished with a 17-2 rercord ...  Started all 19 games ... Third on the team with 32 ground balls ... Recorded five ground balls in win over No. 1 Northwestern (4/27) ... Made five saves in win at North Carolina (3/1) ... Stopped 10 shots while allowing just four goals against Yale (3/15) ... Made nine saves in win against Johns Hopkins (4/2) ... Duplicated that effort in a win over Harvard (4/6) ... Made eight saves while allowing just five goals in Ivy-clinching win against Princeton (4/16) ... Made seven saves in win over No. 1 Northwestern (4/27) ... Recorded nine saves in NCAA Tournament win over Boston University (5/7) ... Stopped seven shots in national semifinal win over Duke (5/23) ... Made six stops in national title game against Northwestern (5/25).

2007 - 
IWLCA National Goalkeeper of the Year ... First-Team All-America (IWLCA) ... Second-Team All-America (Inside Lacrosse) ... Second-Team All-America (womenslacrosse.com) ... First-Team All-Region ... Unanimous First Team All-Ivy ... Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area ... Started all 18 games ... Played 995:33 in goal ... Averaged 6.51 GAA and .518 save percentage ... Led the team with 35 ground balls ... Stopped nine shots against Drexel (3/24) ... Made a pair of saves and allowed just three goals at Temple (2/28) ... Stopped 12 shots in win versus Towson (3/3) ... Named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (3/5) ... Made 10 saves at Northwestern (3/9) ... Stopped six shots against Delaware (3/14) ... Held Yale to three goals while making six saves (3/17) ... Made 10 saves and allowed just four at Johns Hopkins (3/28) ... Stopped four and allowed just a goal in the first half at Columbia (3/31) ... Made 8 saves at Penn State (4/3) ... Stopped five and allowed just two goals at Harvard (4/7) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll (4/9) ... Made three saves and scooped up four ground balls in earning the win over Dartmouth (4/14) ... Made 12 saves against Princeton (4/17) ... Made three saves and allowed just three in 50:30 at Brown (4/21) ... Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (4/23) ... Made five saves at Syracuse (5/6) ... Named to the Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll (5/7) ... Made seven saves and allowed just five goals in the NCAA First Round against Boston University (5/13) ... Allowed seven goals and made as many saves against Maryland in the NCAA Second Round (5/19) ... Made three saves in 38:58 against Northwestern in the NCAA semifinals (5/25).

2006 - Platooned in goal along with Karrie Moore for most of the season ... Started six games in goal and played in 12 ... Saw 367:57 minutes of action ... Posted a 2-3 record ... Had a 9.29 GAA, .441 save percentage and made 45 saves ... Made six saves against Monmouth (2/25) ... Stopped six at Ohio State (3/4) ... Made 10 saves against Northwestern ... Made five saves and got the win at Towson (3/12) ... Picked up the win in Penn's overtime win at Yale (3/18) ... Made seven saves against Harvard (4/9).

2005 - Saw action in the net in six contests, starting two ... Had 30 saves ...  Picked up seven ground balls and caused four turnovers on the season.

High School - 2003 National High School honorable mention All-American ... Mid-Atlantic team .. Received the Sidwell Friends Award for field hockey and lacrosse and the Sidwell Friends Career award ... Participated in the 2002 National High School Tournament ... Captained field hockey and lacrosse teams as a senior ... Earned all-league honors in field hockey.

Personal - Born on May 28, 1986 ... Daughter of Seth Waxman and Debra Goldberg ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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