W. Lax postseason honors

As the only spring sport to win an Ivy League title, it was pretty obvious that the women's lacrosse team was going to pick up some All-Ivy selections.

Well the league announced the All-Ivy teams today, and Karin Brower's squad was well represented.

Junior midfield Emma Spiro shared Player of the Year honors with Princeton's Holly McGarvie, as both were unanimous first-team selections. In addition, Penn had three other first teamers, including unanimous selection Hilary Renna. The senior defense made her third-straight All-Ivy team (two years ago she got first team, last year second). The final two Quakers on the first team were junior midfield Ali DeLuca (who was on it last year) and DeLuca's classmate Courtney Lubbe.

In addition to grabbing a share of the top player award, Penn earned its second Ivy Rookie of the Year in three years as freshman midfield Erin Brennan was unanimously named R.O.Y. DeLuca also unanimously won it, doing so in 2007. Like DeLuca in her freshman year, Brennan was named to the second team.

On the second team Penn also had senior attack Becca Edwards while junior defense Kaileigh Wright received honorable mention.

The noticeable absence was goalkeeper Emily Szelest who leads the country with 5.35 goals allowed per season and is 23rd in the nation (second in the Ivy) with a .497 save percentage.

Besides the absence of Szelest, the results did a good job of mirroring the DP's All-Penn selections (see page B1). We gave Brennan Penn Rookie of the Year and debated between DeLuca and Spiro for first team, but in the end went with Spiro, while giving DeLuca a spot on the second team.