Womenslax.com names Dykstra an All-American
5/30/2010 3:55:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Junior Lauren Dykstra has been named a Second Team All-American by womenslax.com, it was recently announced. Dykstra, who received her second consecutive First-Team All-Region honor on Friday, joins a group of student-athletes that includes the top women’s lacrosse players from around the nation. This comes on the heels of a season in which she became the first student-athlete in Patriot League history to earn the Rookie of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards after earning the Defensive award in 2010.
Dykstra is a three time First-Team All-Patriot League selection and she advanced to the second round of tryouts for the United States women’s developmental team during the summer of 2009. A native of Mendham, New Jersey, Dykstra’s on-field role changed during the 2010 season as she anchored Lehigh’s young defense and dominated the midfield through the Mountain Hawks ride. On two occasions, the junior captain had a hand in ending a pair of the nation’s longest scoring streaks. In Lehigh’s win over Albany on April 12 Dykstra shut out Kayla Best, who had scored a goal in 56 straight games, and five days later Dykstra held Navy’s Erin Rawlick, the nation’s leading goal scorer to zero goals, which snapped Rawlick’s 50-game scoring streak.
During the 2010 season Dykstra led the Mountain Hawks with 54 goals and 62 points. She also scooped up a team best 47 ground balls, won 38 draw controls and caused 16 turnovers. Dykstra is currently second in school history with 184 career goals and third in career points with 215.
