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| ENDLESS PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
Toplaxrecruits.com has Moorestown ranked # 2 in it's final national rankings of 2013. LaxPower.com has Moorestown ranked # 2 overall as they finished second behind McDonogh in the coaches poll but # 1 in the laxpower computer ranking. Phillylacrosse.com ranks Moorestown # 1 for the second straight season, edging out Harriton, the Pa. State Champion. Nike/Lacrosse Magazine's final national ranking for 2013 has Moorestown at # 5. Congratulations to Head Coach Deanna Knobloch for being voted the 2012 National Lacrosse Coach of The Year by the NFHS. Moorestown won Lacrosse Magazine's first ever Fan-tasy girls National Championship as the country's # 1 team defeating Loyola of Chicago with 82% of the fan votes for 2012. Lacrosse Magazine's August issue, ESPN Rise, LaxPower, Inside Lacrosse Magazine and MaxPrep all named Moorestown the # 2 team in their final 2012 top 25 national poll. Moorestown finished in the # 2 spot in the 2012 National Rankings making this the 13th consecutive year finishing in the country's top ten. The only team to ever achieve this honor. CURRENT COLLEGE COACHES (MHS ALUMNI) Kateri Linville, HC - Delaware Denise Wescott, HC - Monmouth Chelsea Gamble, AC - UConn Megan Nutter, AC - Robert Morris Kelley Putnam, AHC - Lehigh Cathy Swezey, HC - Vanderbilt Jen Valore, AC - Michigan Elizabeth Weber - HC Holy Family Xan Weitzel, AC - Villanova Moorestown is the winningest lacrosse program in the nation over the last 13 years. The girls have won over 95% of their games. There are over 3,000 high school sanctioned girls teams playing lacrosse in the US, having just passed field hockey in total numbers. In the last 15 years, the girls program has finished # 12, # 5, # 1, # 1, # 3, # 2, # 3, # 2, # 4, # 5, # 7, # 5, # 10, # 2 and now # 2 nationally in consecutive seasons. |
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| From 2000 until 5/24/10 Moorestown won 228 straight games versus N.J. teams.
The Quakers won ten (X) straight Tournament of Champions titles from 2000-2009 and 17 overall since the tournament started in 1976. Moorestown has played in 13 straight NJ State TOC title games, a feat never accomplished in any sport. **The TOC winner is the true state champion regardless of school size. Recently, the NJSIAA has crowned four Group Champions who play for the TOC crown. Prior to this, the state crowned North and South A and B Champions, large and small schools respectively who played down to one final champion. Preceeding 2003, the NJ State Champion won every game regardless of school size and seedings were done purely by record. All have been acknowleded as the TOC Champion. From 2000 to present, Moorestown is 324-14. Coach Knobloch's record in her 21st year stands at 450-29-4. She now has the most coaching victories in NJ history. Congrats to the following girls on their lacrosse commitments to their respective colleges. As of 6/30/12. Verbal Commitments, Class of 2013: Megan Bianco - Marquette Mary Flick - William and Mary Gabby Frank - Franklin & Marshall Alicia Geiter - Coastal Carolina Shannon Keeler - Gettysburg Megan Kelly - UPenn Margaret Nissen - Rutgers Maura Talvacchia - Presbyterian Amanda Zajac - Brown 2012 commits: Emily Cooper - Chestnut Hill Amanda Currell - Rutgers Haleigh Dalmass - USC Lindsay Goldblatt - Colgate Elizabeth Johnson - Lehigh Nikki McMonagle - Rutgers Marissa Randazzo - Fairfield Carly Taglienti - Washington & Lee Steph Toy - Notre Dame '11 Christian Acker - Longwood Bridget Bianco - Northwestern Rachel Emerson - Rowan Sheri Fauvell - Marist Nicole Laitner - Catholic Erin McAfee - Penn State Nikki Shapiro - Villanova Pinky Schneider - Widener '10 Amanda Ayers - Bucknell Jenna Dougherty - William & Mary Brianne Jones - Santa Clara Kate Keim - McDaniel Katrina Martinelli - Rutgers Claire MacDougall - Rutgers Erika McCool - Oregon Kelsey Miller - Rutgers Loren Pruitt - Gettysburg Paige Schlesinger - Colgate Jenna Slowey - Fairfield Mary Tokolish - McDaniel Sarah Weber - Virginia (Field Hockey) '09 Sam Dalmass - Lafayette Jenna Hildebrand - Florida Alyssa Ogle - Duke Karli Tobin - Jacksonville '08 Kelley Bartlett, Richmond Univ. Winnie Call, Yale Univ. Bridget Callahan, Penn State Univ. Kelly Corcoran, Catholic Univ. Jen Linder, Washington & Lee Lindsay Lauer, College of N.J. Morgan Miller, Lehigh Univ. Kristen McAfee, Maryland (soccer and lacrosse) Annie McGinley, Rutgers Univ. Julianna Toscani, Penn State Sasha Teubens, Centenary Coll. Virginia Weber, Loyola Univ. '07 Erin Bigley, George Mason U. Brooke Bohling, U. Of Cal-Berkeley Taylor Chumney, U. of North Carolina Chelsea Gamble, George Mason U. Giulia Giordano, Univ. Of Penn. Kate Korson, American Univ. Gracia Sporer, St. Josephs Univ. '06 Alexis Brennan, Univ. of Richmond Brooke Cantwell, Rutgers Univ. Jess Davis, Rutgers Univ. Shawn Evans, Monmouth Univ. Kelsey Honeyford, George Washington Univ. Jen Ingalls, Lehigh Univ. Lauren McAfee, Towson Univ. Erika Page, Rutgers Univ. Blair Santaspirt, Notre Dame Xan Weitzel, Boston Univ. | ||