Lake Forest College Sports Information
March 2, 2003
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Slater and Taylor Earn First Team All-NCHA Honors
Caligiuri and Wild are honorable mention selections
  

Robyn Slater and Theresa Taylor were All-NCHA First Team selections.
LAKE FOREST, IL - The Northern Collegiate Hockey Association released its all-conference and academic all-conference selections for the 2002-03 season Sunday (March 2), and Lake Forest had six players make the lists.

Senior forward Robyn Slater (Granite City, IL/Granite City Senior) was named to the first team and earned academic all-conference honors for the third consecutive year. She finished tied-for-sixth in the league with seven goals in 14 NCHA games. She was also ranked tied-for-11th with a dozen points. In 26 games overall, she was second on the team with 13 goals, tied-for-third with nine assists, and third with 22 points. She will graduate with a degree in chemistry and as the program's all-time leader with 50 goals, 28 assists, and 78 points.

Joining Slater on the first team is junior goaltender Theresa Taylor (Spartanburg, SC/National Sports Academy), who was also a first team selection as a freshman in 2001. Taylor led the NCHA in saves for the third straight year with 442 saves in 14 league games. She was also tied-for-first with three shutouts and fourth with a 2.90 goals against average and a .906 save percentage. Overall, she posted a 12-9-3 record, tallied 617 saves, and had a goals against average of 2.59.

Sophomore Lindsey Wild (Inver Grove Heights, MN/Rosemount) and freshman Lil Caligiuri (Wheaton, IL/Culver Academy) were both honorable mention all-conference selections. Wild, who also earned the honor last year, had four goals and four assists in league games. Overall, she was fourth on the team with 15 points on six goals and nine assists. Caligiuri was tied-for-fourth in the NCHA with 10 assists in conference play. She was also tied-for-sixth with Slater and three others for 11th with 12 points. She tied a school record with 15 assists overall and ranked second on the squad with 25 points and third with nine goals.

The Foresters' other academic all-conference selections were senior Lara Scheibner (Grosse Pointe, MI), a communications major, and junior Lydia Groskin (Stowe, VT/North American Hockey Academy), who is studying economics. To achieve Academic All-NCHA status, a player must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00, have earned at least 50 semester or 75 quarter hours, and have been recommended by her head coach.

Lake Forest completed its best season in the program's three-year existence with a 14-9-3 overall record, including a 6-8-0 mark and third-place finish in the NCHA. The Foresters were defeated by UW-Stevens Point, the #8 team in the country, in the semifinals of the NCHA Tournament on February 21, but closed out the season with a victory over UW-Superior in the tourney's third-place game.