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Celebrating National Daughters Day with °®½´ÊÓƵ Athletics

 

9/27/2023

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In honor of National Daughters Day, which was on September 25th, °®½´ÊÓƵ Athletics want to recognize the achievements of our women’s athletic teams during the past academic year.  °®½´ÊÓƵ women’s soccer went 15-0 in the regular season in 2022, marking the first time in program history the team has had an undefeated regular season.  Softball player Bella Truelove (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) became the 11 ^th player in softball program history to earn NJCAA All-American honors.  The °®½´ÊÓƵ women’s tennis team competed in the NJCAA Division I National Tennis Championship in May held in Tyler, Texas.  Gwen Guidice (Hillsborough, NJ/Westfield HS), Mercedes Medart (Liege, Belgium/Atlas College Genk), Valeria Vargas (Valencia, Venezuela/Instituto Santa Cruz) and Victoria Woodruff (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) helped °®½´ÊÓƵ to a 25th place finish at the National Championship.

 

In 2022-2023, Mercer women’s athletic teams had a record of 57-16 and a .780 winning percentage.  Nine women athletes earned All-Region 19 honors, 4 All-GSAC (Garden State Athletic Conference) honors and two women’s athletes earned Region 19 Player of the Year honors: Truelove in softball and Lisa Schroeder (Leiferde, Germany/Sportsymnasium) in women’s soccer. 

 

The nine athletes who earned All-Region 19 honors include Madison Bressler (Hamilton, NJ/Hamilton West), Carolina Farias (Santiago, Chile/Instituto Andes), Sophia Najem (Florence, NJ/Florence Twp. Memorial), Emma Nini (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert), Amanda Papamanolis (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) and Schroeder from women's soccer and softball players Julia Hannawacker (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert), Shea Krebs (Robbinsville, NJ/Robbinsville HS) and Truelove.  The four women's athletes who earned All-GSAC honors last year were softball players Hannwacker, Krebs, Maya Patel (Burlington, NJ/Burlington Township) and Truelove.

 

Six female athletes earned NJCAA Academic All-American honors.  Rachelle Liechti (Rombach, Switzerland), Georgia Jew (Shrewsbury, UK/Shrewsbury Sixth Form), Najem (Florence, NJ/Florence Twp. Memorial) and Schroeder from women’s soccer and Delaney Misier (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) and Krebs from softball were NJCAA Academic All-Americans.  

 

Congrats to °®½´ÊÓƵ women’s athletes on all of their success in 2022-2023!  Thank you to the many parents who allowed your daughters to come to Mercer and play on our Viking athletic teams!