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THREE FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS ON NFHCA/LONGSTRETH ALL-AMERICAN TEAMS

First Team All-American Margi Scholtes

MEDFORD -- Capping the best season in team history, three members of the NCAA runner-up Tufts University field hockey team have been selected to the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-American teams for the 2008 season.

Junior Margi Scholtes (Grosse Pointe, MI) is one of 16 players in the country named to the All-American first team. Sophomore Tamara Brown (Annandale, VA) garnered All-American second team notice and classmate Amanda Roberts (Wenham, MA) is on the All-American third team. The three players honored mark the most ever for Tufts Field Hockey on the All-American list.

Scholtes, the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year, was at the center of the team's defensive efforts. The Jumbos finished the year allowing less than one goal per game. She was also in the middle of the team's penalty corner attack, adding three goals and eight assists for 14 points to the record-setting offense. Scholtes is the first All-American first team player from Tufts since Meredith Leroux earned the honor for the 1998 season.

Brown obliterated the previous team records for goals and points in a season with 28 goals and 61 points in '08. She scored six goals in the NCAA Tournament, including three in the national semi-finals and two more in the championship game. Roberts, also an anchor on defense, added her athletic ability and talented stick-handling skills on the offensive side of the field. Her two-way play included the game-tying goal in the second half of the NCAA quarterfinals against The College of New Jersey.

Tufts lost 3-2 in two overtimes to NESCAC rival Bowdoin in the national championship game. Coach Tina McDavitt's team finished 19-2 overall and was just the second Tufts team ever to play in an NCAA national title contest.

► Longstreth/NFHCA All-American Teams

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