2012 All-WILA women's lacrosse teams

ALAMOSA, Colo. — Eleven Fort Lewis College women's lacrosse players were named to All-Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association teams, WILA Commissioner Chris Day announced yesterday.

Ally Kvidera, Paige Juneau, and Jessica Norby were named to the All-WILA first team — repeat selections from a year ago on the WILA's inaugural first team all-conference squad. Abby Kvidera, Kylie Smith, Jenna Steele, and Brook Wineland were second team selections in 2012. Jessica Adams, Amanda Hoffmeyer, Nicole Krook, and Genna Waugh received All-WILA honorable mention.

“We had a great season this year and we proved that we are in the process of building a solid Division II lacrosse program, which can contend with the top teams in the WILA,” said second-year FLC head coach Kelsey MacDonald. “I want to congratulate all of the Fort Lewis players who received All-WILA nods for all of the teams: first team, second team, and honorable mention. We are excited for the next year and can't wait to keep on growing as a program.”

Juneau, a 5-foot-1 junior defense from Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, set the FLC single-season record for caused turnovers (28) and tied her own FLC single-game standard for caused turnovers (5, at Whittier, March 6, 2012). She also had 39 ground balls, 10 draw controls, and one goal in 2012.

The 2011 WILA Defensive Player of the Year, Juneau is FLC's career leader in caused turnovers (55) and ranks among FLC career leaders in ground balls (second, 78), games played (second, 40), draw controls (eighth, 33), total points (11th, 11), goals (12th, 8), and assists (12th, 3).

Ally Kvidera, a 5-foot-6 sophomore midfield from Robbinsdale Armstrong High School in Plymouth, Minn., set new school single-season records for goals (47), goals per game (3.13), ground balls (47), and shots (109) in 2012. She broke her sister's school record for most goals in a game by tallying nine at Colorado Mesa on March 24, 2012, and broke her own school record for most shots in a game with 13 at Whittier on March 6, 2012.

A year ago, Kvidera was chosen as WILA's Freshman of the Year and earned WILA All-Academic honors. She added WILA Offensive Player of the Week honors on March 28, 2012. She is FLC's career leader in goals (88), goals per game (3.03), and draw controls (59), and ranks among Skyhawk career leaders in total points (second, 112), total points per game (second, 3.86), assists (second, 24), assists per game (second, 0.83), ground balls (third, 77), caused turnovers (fourth, 26), and games played (fifth, 29).

Norby, a 5-foot-7 sophomore attack from Chaska High School in Chaska, Minn., notched 60 points on 35 goals and 25 assists. She added 16 ground balls, four draw controls, and three caused turnovers.

A year ago, she was the WILA Offensive Player of the Year and a two-time WILA Offensive Player of the Week. She is FLC's career leader in total points (131), total points per game (4.52), assists (53), and assists per game (1.83), and ranks among Skyhawk career leaders in goals (second, 78), goals per game (second, 2.69), games played (fifth, 29), ground balls (12th, 28), draw controls (13th, 9), and caused turnovers (16th, 7).

Abby Kvidera, a 5-foot-5 sophomore midfield from Robbinsdale Armstrong High School in Plymouth, Minn., was a second team All-WILA selection in 2012 after being named to the first team a year ago. She amassed 43 points on 39 goals and four helpers and finished with 37 ground balls, 15 draw controls, and 10 caused turnovers. She was named the WILA Offensive Player of the Week on March 20, 2012.

Kvidera ranks among FLC career leaders in total points (third, 86), total points per game (third, 2.97), goals (third, 73), goals per game (third, 2.52), assists (fourth, 13), caused turnovers (fifth, 22), draw controls (fifth, 38), games played (fifth, 29), assists per game (sixth, 0.45), and ground balls (sixth, 65).

Smith, a 5-foot-9 sophomore attack from Lone Tree, Colo., who attended Highland Ranch High, repeated on the All-WILA second team. She scored 34 total points on 28 goals and six assists in 2012, adding 30 ground balls, 11 draw controls, and four caused turnovers.

Smith ranks among FLC career leaders in assists (third, 17), total points (fourth, 72), goals (fourth, 55), goals per game (fourth, 1.90), assists per game (fourth, 0.59), total points per game (fifth, 2.48), games played (fifth, 29), draw controls (sixth, 35), ground balls (seventh, 51), and caused turnovers (seventh, 21).

Wineland, a 5-foot-7 freshman attack/midfield from Golden High School in Golden, Colo., earned a second team All-WILA nod in her rookie campaign. Chosen as the WILA Defensive Player of the Week on April 19, 2012, she tied the school record for most caused turnovers in a single game with five against Colorado mesa on April 13, 2012. She also set the school single-season mark for most draw controls (52). During the entire 2012 campaign, Wineland amassed 38 points on 28 goals and 10 assists, adding 36 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers.

Wineland ranks among FLC career leaders in draw controls (second, 52), assists per game (third, 0.67), total points per game (fourth, 2.53), total points (fifth, 38), goals (fifth, 28), goals per game (fifth, 1.87), assists (sixth, 10), caused turnovers (eighth, 18), ground balls (ninth, 36), and games played (17th, 15).

Steele, a 5-foot-6 junior defense from West Linn, Ore., repeated on the All-WILA second team this year. She had 33 ground balls, 15 caused turnovers, 10 draw controls, and one goal in 2012.

A former WILA All-Academic and D2 Athletic Directors Association/WeatherPORT Academic Award recipient, Steele ranks among FLC career leaders in games played (second, 40), caused turnovers (third, 28), ground balls (fourth, 74), draw controls (tenth, 24), and total points (25th, 3).

Adams, a 5-foot-2 senior midfield from Montezuma-Cortez High School in Cortez, Colo., was an honorable mention selection after being named to the All-WILA second team a year ago. She enjoyed a career-best offensive year in 2012, scoring 12 goals and adding one helper for 13 total points. She also had 32 ground balls, 29 draw controls, and 17 caused turnovers and received the lacrosse team's Skyhawk Award at the school's Skyhawk Awards Banquet in early April.

The only player to play and start in every game in school history, Adams owns the FLC career records for ground balls (83) and games (48), and ranks among Skyhawk career leaders in caused turnovers (second, 40), draw controls (third, 51), total points (seventh, 27), goals (seventh, 23), assists (tenth, 4), total points per game (15th, 0.56), goals per game (17th, 48), and assists per game (17th, 0.10).

Hoffmeyer, a 5-foot-4 freshman midfield from St. Joseph Academy in St. Louis, Mo., earned All-WILA honorable mention in her first collegiate season. She set the school record for most draw controls in a game with 10 against Grand Valley State on March 30, 2012. During her freshman campaign, Hoffmeyer tallied 11 points on eight goals and three assists, adding 42 draw controls, 28 ground balls, and nine caused turnovers.

She ranks among FLC career leaders in draw controls (fourth, 42), assists per game (ninth, 0.21), total points (11th, 11), goals (12th, 8), goals per game (12th, 0.57), assists (12th, 3), ground balls (12th, 28), total points per game (13th, 0.76), and caused turnovers (14th, 9).

Krook, a 5-foot-5 sophomore defense from Highlands Ranch, Colo., who attended Highlands Ranch High School, was recognized by the WILA for the first time in her career. She had 30 ground balls, 14 caused turnovers, and one draw control in 2012.

She ranks among FLC career leaders in ground balls (ninth, 36), caused turnovers (12th, 16), games played (12th, 19), assists (14th, 1), assists per game (20th, 0.05), and total points (27th, 1).

Waugh, a 5-foot-5 junior goalie from Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Calif., was an honorable mention All-WILA pick after being named to the second team a year ago. She earned WILA Defensive Player of the Week honors on March 28, 2012. During her third season with the Skyhawks, Waugh set new school single-season records for most games in goal (14) and most minutes in goal (683:25), as well as the single-game record for most ground balls (9, at Colorado Mesa, March 24, 2012).

Waugh owns nearly every career goalkeeping record in FLC history, including games played (33), saves (201), victories (14), and winning percentage (.467), and ranks second in save percentage (.369) and goals against average (13.51). She also ranks among Skyhawk career leaders in ground balls (fifth, 72), caused turnovers (16th, 7), and goals (27th, 1).

Fort Lewis finished its fourth-ever season of women's lacrosse 7-8 overall and 4-4 in WILA games (third place in the second-year league) under MacDonald. Adams is the lone senior that the Skyhawks lost to graduation.