Posted on May 20, 2003

Union senior defensewoman Orly Amir and sophomore forward Lisa Schulkind were selected to the
Jewish Sports Review's 2003 All-American Women's All-American Ice Hockey team. Amir was a first-team selection while Schulkind earned honorable mention status.

Amir was one of three defensive players selected to the six-player team. She scored three goals and 11 points from her defensive position and will graduate as the only player to have been a part of all four of Union's varsity seasons. A member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference's All-Academic team and one of six Union players selected to the American Women's Hockey Coaches Association's Scholar Athlete All-American Team, Amir also provided the young Dutchwomen (only three seniors) with a calming leadership that helped the team establish a program record for wins in a season (11) while establishing their first winning campaign among their ECAC counterparts at 10-9-1.

Amir, who spent the fall term of her junior year studying in Brazil, is a native of Plainsboro, New Jersey, and a graduate of West Windsor-Plainsboro. She is a political science major at Union.

Schulkind, who joined Amir on both the ECAC All-Academic team as well as on the American Women's Hockey Coaches Association's Scholar Athlete All-American Team, had four goals and eight points this season for the Dutchwomen. One of her assists set up the game-winning goal at Salve Regina while she contributed two goals and an assist in one of Union's two victories over MIT.

An economics major, Schulkind earned the 2000-02 Presidential Award for student-athletes as the women's ice hockey player with the highest grade point average (3.9). She is a native of Sharon, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Sharon High School.

Union, which led all of Division III with six of its student-athletes selected to the Scholar All-American Team, also had senior captain and defender
Molly Semler (Middlesex, VT/Union-32), sophomore captain and defender
Jamie Laubisch (Apalachin, NY/Vestal High), sophomore forward
Jennifer Fleming (Simsbury, CT/Westminster), and sophomore forward
Hillary Magee (Madison, CT/Daniel Hand High School), selected to the team.

In order to be considered for the team, a player had to maintain a 3.5 cumulative grade point average while meeting the playing criteria.