1998 Women's All-Ivy League

1998 Women's All-Ivy Teams

Princeton, N.J. - The 1998 All-Ivy League Women's Soccer Team as selected by the League's eight head coaches:

First Team
Offense - Melissa Roth, Dartmouth (Jr., M) W. Hartford, Conn. *
Offense - Emily Stauffer, Harvard (Sr., F) New Canaan, Conn. *
Offense - Annie Kwon, Yale, (Sr., M) Fremont, Calif.
Offense -Jill Callaghan, Pennsylvania (Jr., F) Moorestown, N.J.
Offense - Naomi Miller, Harvard (Sr., F) San Antonio, Texas
Defense - Suzanne Eastman, Dartmouth (Sr., D) Brightwaters, N.Y. *
Defense - Jessica Larson, Harvard (Jr., D) Albuquerque, N.M.
Defense - Jaime Chu, Harvard (Sr., D) Manhasset Hills, N.Y.
Defense - April Rasala, Dartmouth (Sr., D) Newton, Mass.
Defense - Lorelei Wall, Yale (Jr., D) Nashville, Tenn.
Goalie - Kristin Luckenbill, Dartmouth (So.) Paoli, Pa. *

Second Team
Offense - Jen Murray, Dartmouth (So., F) Wellesley, Mass.
Offense - Kerry Martin, Columbia (Jr., M) Massapequa Park, N.Y.
Offense - Jill Rubinstein, Yale (Sr., F) E. Amherst, N.Y.
Offense - Jessica Post, Dartmouth (Jr., F) Northridge, Calif.
Offense - Bekah Splaine, Brown (So., F) Cambridge, Mass.
Defense - Christine Castro, Dartmouth (Jr., D) White Plains, N.Y.
Defense - Logan Coyle, Columbia (Fr., D) Belle Mead, N.J.
Defense - Meg Sullivan, Yale (Jr., D) Minneapolis, Minn.
Defense - Janet Santo, Princeton (Sr., D) Rockville Center, N.Y
Defense - Devon Bingham, Harvard (Sr., M) Duxbury, Mass.
Goalie - Anne Browning, Harvard (Jr.) Tacoma, Wash.

Honorable Mention
Offense - Andrea Callaghan, Pennsylvania (Jr., F); Ashley Berman, Harvard (Jr., M) Portland, Ore.; Jamie Lang, Dartmouth (Fr., M) La Canada, Calif.; Julie Shaner, Princeton (So., F) Gwynedd Valley, Pa.; Kira Kania-Lloyd, Brown (Sr., F) Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; Angela Konstantaras, Pennsylvania (So., F) Pleasant Hill, Calif.; Miki Agrawal, Cornell (Sr., F) Brossard, Que.; Courtney Raker, Brown (So., M) Greenwich, Conn.; Amee Reyes, Princeton (So., F) Wheeling, W. Va.
Defense - Katie Gifford, Columbia (Sr., D) N. Kingstown, R.I.; Gina Foster, Harvard (Jr., M/D) Davie, Fla.; Lauren Walsh, Cornell (Sr., D) Huntington, N.Y.; Kelianne Toland, Pennsylvania (So., M) Philadelphia, Pa.; Kelly Sosa, Princeton (Fr., D) Oneonta, N.Y.; Julie DeMichele, Cornell (Fr., D) New Canaan, Conn.
Goal - Ali Ahern, Columbia (Jr.) Needham, Mass.
Player of the Year - Kristin Luckenbill, Dartmouth (So., G) Paoli, Pa.
Rookie of the Year - Bekah Splaine, Brown (So., F)

* = Unanimous selection

Ivy League champion Dartmouth and runner-up Harvard will represent the Ivies in the NCAA tournament beginning tomorrow, and their success was well represented on the All-Ivy team, which was released today. The schools combined for eight of the 11 first team All-Ivy members. The League's top honor went to Dartmouth GK Kristin Luckenbill (So., Paoli, Pa.) - last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year - who became only the second player to win the Ivy Player of the Year honor as a sophomore (Harvard F Emily Stauffer '99 is the other). Luckenbill ended the regular season with a school-record 0.41 goals against average, which placed her third in the nation in that category. In Ivy play, Luckenbill boasted a 0.15 GAA, with the lone goal coming against Harvard in a game where she was credited with 15 saves. Luckenbill also set a school mark with 10.5 shutouts (she shared the blanking of Cornell), and with one more shutout she will become the school's career leader in that category despite the fact she has two years still to play.

The Ivy League Rookie of the Year award went to Brown F Bekah Splaine (So., Cambridge, Mass.), who missed her entire freshman year due to a severe knee injury sustained before her arrival at Brown. The second-leading scorer for the Bears this season with 15 points (4 goals, 7 assists), Splaine started 15 of the Bears' 17 games. She was the leading scorer for the Bears in Ivy play (2g, 3a), including a goal and two assists against Pennsylvania. A strong, dynamic player who is a presence on the field with her physical, exciting play, Splaine has three more years of eligibility.

Besides her Player of the Year honor, Luckenbill also was one of four unanimous selections to the All-Ivy first team. She was joined in that high honor by two teammates, M Melissa Roth (Jr., West Hartford, Conn.) and D Suzanne Eastman (Sr., Brightwaters, N.Y.). Roth led the League in scoring in Ivy games with 13 points (4g, 5a) and finished second overall (8g, 6a), catapulting a Dartmouth offense that scored 23 goals in seven League games. Eastman helped Luckenbill solidify the back, as the Green allowed just two goals in Ivy League play and just eight tallies overall. The only non-Dartmouth player to be selected unanimously was, predictably, Harvard F Emily Stauffer (Sr., New Canaan, Conn.), who is the only active member of the Ivy League Silver Anniversary Honor Roll. Stauffer, who was the Ivy Player of the Year in 1995 and 1996, making her one of only two Ivy athletes to win the player of the year honor twice, is again a finalist for both national player of the year honors. After taking the fall semester away from Harvard last year due to a family illness, Stauffer returned to lead the Crimson to its third consecutive NCAA berth, tallying 21 points (5g, 11a) during the regular season. Her selection to the first team makes Stauffer one of only 12 women in Ivy soccer history to be named first team All-Ivy during all four years of her career.

Another one of those 12 women is Stauffer's Harvard teammate up front, F Naomi Miller (Sr., San Antonio, Texas), who received her fourth first team All-Ivy honor after tallying 18 points this season (6g, 6a). Two Harvard defenders also made the All-Ivy first team in D Jessica Larson (Jr., Albuquerque, N.M.) and D Jaime Chu (Sr., Manhasset Hills, N.Y.) Larson solidified the Harvard defense while Chu was the team's top man-to-man defender. Returning to the Ivy League champions and their top defense, Dartmouth D April Rasala (Sr., Newton, Mass.) also was recognized for her defensive skills and her ability to attack from the back.
Rounding out the All-Ivy first team were a pair of Yalies and the Ivy League's leading scorer overall. Yale M Annie Kwon (Sr., Fremont, Calif.), a member of the Korean national team, was named to the All-Ivy first team for the third time in her career, one of only 14 women to accomplish that feat. Her teammate, D Lorelei Wall (Jr., Nashville, Tenn.), helped solidify a defense that allowed a school record low 12 goals in the regular season, shattering the previous mark of 16 set in 1992. Pennsylvania F Jill Callaghan (Jr., Moorestown, N.J.) led the Ivy League in overall scoring with 26 points on the season (11g, 4a), including four goals in Ivy play.

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