July 3, 2008
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Rising sophomore Katrina Nietsch (New Canaan, Conn.), a second-team all-league midfielder, was one of five Navy players selected to the 2008 Patriot League Women's Lacrosse Academic Honor Roll announced Thursday morning by the league office.
Nietsch, along with classmate and Freshman All-American Meg Decker (Catonsville, Md.), was one of only five Patriot League freshmen to have earned all-league kudos. The New Canaan, Conn., native was sixth overall in the league with 40 goals, while also finishing among the team leaders in points (47, 5th), ground balls (39, 2nd), and draw controls (35, 4th). Nietsch earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors on April 14, after scoring a career-high six goals in a win over Bucknell, a victory that secured Navy a spot in the Patriot League Tournament. The six-goal effort was one of 13 multi-goal games she registered this spring.
Rising junior Mary Ruttum, a systems engineering major who posted a 3.68 GPA during the spring semester, was also recognized on the honor roll. Along with Nietsch, the Annapolis native was a big reason why Navy owned the nation's second-ranked scoring offense (16.7 goals per game). Ruttum concluded the year as the Mids' fourth-leading scorer with 54 points (37 g, 17 a) while collecting the fifth-most draw controls in the Patriot League (42) for a Navy squad that paced all Division I teams in the category with 17.1 per game, the second-highest average in NCAA history.
Recent graduates Kaylene Klingenstein (Beltsville, Md.) and Jessie Rosa (Columbia, Md.) and rising senior Margaret Gardner (Oak Hill, Va.) joined Nietsch and Ruttum to round out the list of Navy academic honorees. Klingenstein, who posted a 3.53 GPA this spring as a microeconomics major, was sixth on the team with 19 points on 17 goals and two assists. Rosa, an applied physics major who put up a 3.63 GPA for the semester, earned the starting nod in all 17 contests on the defensive end. Gardner saw action in all 17 games, earning 12 starts at defense, and boasted a perfect 4.00 GPA as a political science major.
To be eligible for the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must earn a 3.20 GPA during the semester in which she competes and also be awarded a varsity letter. There were 83 student-athletes named to this year's women's lacrosse honor roll.
The Mids wrapped up their inaugural Division I campaign with a 13-4 mark, setting the NCAA record for most wins by a first-year program. Head coach Cindy Timchal and her Navy squad returns eight of its top 10 scorers in 2009.
Navy on the 2008 Patriot League Women's Lacrosse Academic Honor Roll
Name Cl. Major GPA Hometown/High School
Margaret Gardner Jr. Political Science 4.00 Oak Hill, Va./Chantilly
Kaylene Klingenstein Sr. Infotech Microeconomics 3.53 Beltsville, Md./ Eleanor Roosevelt
Katrina Nietsch Fr. Quantitative Economics 3.25 New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan
Jessie Rosa Sr. Applied Physics 3.63 Columbia, Md./Hammond
Mary Ruttum So. Systems Engineering 3.68 Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's