NCAA FIELD HOCKEY: Five Monks Collect All-GNAC Accolades

STANDISH, Maine – The 2015 GNAC Field Hockey All-Conference teams have been announced and five Saint Joseph’s College players have been honored.
 
Senior defender Meghan Williams (Greenland, N.H./St. Thomas Aquinas) is a First Team selection while senior Chelsea Bordeau (Rumford, Maine), junior Kelsey Dumond (Lewiston, Maine), and freshmen Michalia Parent (Westborough, Mass.) and Megan Baker (Gorham, Maine) have all been listed on the Second Team.
 
Williams, a two-year team captain, claims First Team All-GNAC acclaim for the second-consecutive season after netting four goals with a team-high seven assists for 15 total points during her senior season. She played a variety of roles for the Monks this fall and went 4-5 on penalty stroke attempts with a pair of defensive saves in her final collegiate campaign.
 
Bordeau, a four-year starter and defensive stalwart, earns All-Conference accolades for the first time in her career after posting a team-high four defensive saves as a senior captain.
 
Dumond collects Second Team honors for the second-consecutive season after netting a team-high 11 goals with three assists for 25 total points. The junior standout also led the team in shots (88) and shots on goal (67) and potted a pair of game-winning goals this fall.
 
Parent tallied 10 goals with six assists for 26 total points as a freshman forward. She paced the Monks in points and game-winners (3) and collected GNAC and ECAC DIII New England Rookie of the Week honors on September 14th.
 
Baker posted a 1.05 goals-against average with four shutouts and an 11-4 record as a freshman keeper. She registered a .754 save percentage with 52 stops and 17 goals allowed in 1,138 minutes between the posts. Baker ranked second in goals-against average and fifth in save percentage as a first-year goalie and earned GNAC Rookie and Goalkeeper of the Week honors on October 26th.
 
Saint Joseph’s posted a 13-7 overall record with a 5-1 mark in GNAC play under the watch of 11th-year Head Coach Rupert Lewis this fall. The Monks earned the #2 seed, and first-round bye, in the conference tournament and topped #3 Anna Maria College, 3-1, in a GNAC quarterfinal on November 4th. With the victory, Saint Joseph’s advanced to the GNAC Championship versus top-seeded Simmons College and suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hands of the reigning conference champs on November 7th.