ECAC Second-Team
Dutchwomen's MVP
Sophomore forward Liz Flanagan (Simsbury, CT/Loomis Chaffee), who team-high 40 points led the the women's hockey team to the best season in their four-year varsity history, was named to the ECAC's All-Conference second team.
Flanagan, who along with Jamie Laubisch (Apalachin, NY/Vestal, NY), were named to last year's All-Rookie Team, was also named the Skating Dutchwomen's “Most Valuable Player” at the team's recent year-end banquet. It was the second-straight year that she has been named the Dutchwomen's MVP.
Flanagan, who is also a standout performer for the women's lacrosse team, helped the Dutchwomen finish with a winning ECAC record (10-9-1) for the first time. Union's 11 overall wins was also the most in the program's brief history. Next year the Dutchwomen will move to the Division I ranks and play a 34-game schedule, which begins in October and ends in March. They will join the men's ice hockey team as the only other Division I programs among Union's 25 intercollegiate athletic teams.
Fifth-year head coach Fred Quistgard also announced that Laubisch captured the Dutchwomen's “Hanna Yamashita Commitment Award” for the second consecutive year while the team's “Seventh Player Award” went to freshman
Samantha Glover (Henniker, NH/Portsmouth Abbey School). Freshman Meg Lloyd (Plymouth, MA/Gov. Dummer Acadmey) earned the team's “Most Improved Player Award.”