CC Women's Lacrosse Earns Fourth Consecutive NCAA Appearance

CC Women's Lacrosse Earns Fourth Consecutive NCAA Appearance
Fifth-Ranked Tigers To Face Union College On Saturday

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Colorado College women's lacrosse team will
make its fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Division III Women's
Lacrosse Championship and face Union College in a first-round game on
Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET in Cortland, N.Y.

The victor will advance to Sunday's regional championship game against the
winner of Saturday's first game between Cabrini College and host SUNY
Cortland. The 2005 national championship will be played at The College of
New Jersey on May 21-22.

Colorado College earned an at-large berth for the fifth time in the
11-year history of the program after completing the regular season with a
10-1 record. The fifth-ranked Tigers went undefeated versus Division III
and II opponents, with its only loss occurring in its last game of the
regular season against Division I University of Denver. The 2005 campaign
marked the second consecutive season that CC won its first 10 games. Last
year, the Tigers set a school record by winning their first 12 games
before losing to Division II UC Davis.

CC owns a 2-4 record in the NCAA Tournament. Last year, the Tigers rallied
to defeat St. Mary's (Md.) College, 10-9, in the first round before
falling to The College of New Jersey, 19-9, on its home field in the
regional final. In 2003, CC beat the College of Wooster, 13-7, in the
first-ever postseason game at Stewart Field. The Tigers then dropped a
15-8 decision to Salisbury University in a first-round game Salisbury, Md.
All four of CC's tournament losses have come against an opponent playing
on its home field.

The Tigers feature sophomore attacker Kate Fitzgerald, who leads the team
with 29 goals and 41 points. Senior attacker Cassie Abel, who became the
program's first-ever first-team All-American last year, is second with 27
goals and 34 points. Abel needs 11 tallies to tie Mary Everett's school
record of 180 career goals. CC has two other two-time All-Americans in
senior midfielder Lizzie Franke and junior midfielder Helen Sneath.

Susan Stuart, the only head coach in the history of the program, earned
career victory No. 100 on March 24 when the Tigers came from behind to
defeat Claremont Colleges, the second-ranked team in the West Region.
Stuart's career record is 106-57-1, good for a .649 winning percentage.
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