Three Diplomats and Coach Selected for North/South All-Star Game

LANCASTER, Pa. - Three members of the Franklin & Marshall women's lacrosse team have been selected to compete in the IWLCA North/South Senior All-Star game on Saturday, June 13. Sarah Meisenberg (Severna Park, Md. / Severn), Jen Pritchard (Media, Pa. / Penncrest) and Shannon Summers (North Wales, Pa./The Hill School), will represent the South squad. Their team will be coached by Diplomats' first-year mentor, Lauren Paul.

Meisenberg is one of F&M's four captains. The senior is s multiple-time All-American. The 2009 Karvasales award winner, recognizing the senior with the most impressive cumulative athletic resume, was third on the team in assists (30), including the helper to Hargest's overtime in game winner in the NCAA National Championship Game. The final of her team-best 27 caused turnovers provided F&M with the possession needed to send the title game into overtime. Meisenberg was second on the team amongst field players in ground balls with 34 and third on the draws with 48 controls.

Pritchard ends her career having scored in the final 69 games of her career, an NCAA record. She scored in 83 of her 84 career games. She twitched twine 268 times in her career, 47 more times than the previous record holder. She wrapped her career with 320 total points, resetting that school record as well. She has the NCAA record for career goals in the tournament (53) and in a single tournament (19 in 2007).

Summers saved her best for last. Her final campaign marked the second 100-point season (104) on record at Franklin & Marshall, falling two points shy of the school record. Summers dished out 65 assists this season to move to the top of the career chart in the category (150).  Summers rolled up seven or more points six times, including a stretch of four in five games. Her season high of nine came in the regular season against Dickinson. That was followed by back-to-back eight-point performances.

In her first season as the head coach at her alma mater, Paul guided her Franklin & Marshall Diplomats to a third-straight NCAA Division III National Championship game and brought home her program's second National Championship trophy. The Diplomats went 21-1 en route to the NCAA hardware, with the only loss coming to then top ranked Salisbury by a single goal - the same margin of victory in the title game. The win made her the first, first-year head coach to win an NCAA Division III National Championship.

Her team rewrote Franklin & Marshall's record books en route to the first 500-point season on record. F&M took on ten top ten teams with a 9-1 record and went 10-1 against top 20 teams with a margin of 5.5 goals per victory in those contests.