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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
TAMARA BROWN SETS NEW SCORING RECORD FOR TUFTS
FIELD HOCKEY PROGRAM
 MEDFORD
-- In the 43rd game of her Tufts University field hockey career this
past Saturday, on Homecoming Day, junior Tamara Brown (Annandale,
VA/W.T. Woodson) became the all-time leading scorer in Jumbo
history with 98 points. She surpassed the 97 points accumulated by
Aryn Landau from 1987-90.
During the team's 7-0 victory against Colby, Brown's goal at the
42:00 mark tied the record, and she broke it with an assist on
teammate Tess Guttadauro's (Carlisle, MA) goal barely two
minutes later. Brown currently
has 43 goals with 12 assists for the 98 career points (goals count
as two points). Landau finished her
Tufts career with 44 goals and nine assists for 97 points. Brown's
next goal will tie Landau's record in that category.
During her first season with Coach Tina McDavitt's team in 2007,
Brown was the first forward off the bench and scored five goals with
one assist for 11 points in 13 games. She missed the final five
games with a knee injury. After working hard to get back on the
field as a sophomore in 2008, she smashed the school's single-season
scoring record with 28 goals (also a single-season mark) and five
assists for 61 points. Her 28 goals tied for sixth in the NCAA
Division 3 statistics. Last Friday (Oct. 9), she received the Tufts
University Athletics Department's 2008-09 Murray Kenney Award for
perseverance after her extraordinary season following the injury.
This year, Brown has twice scored a career-high seven points in
games. She had two goals and three assists in a 5-0 victory over
Endicott on October 1, then tallied three goals and one assist in
the Colby contest when she broke the record. The hat trick was the
fourth of her career. Already with a career-high in assists this
fall, she's among the national top 20 in scoring with 26 points (10
goals, 6 assists) in nine games (2.89 points per game). She leads the
New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with the 10
goals and 26 points, and is tied for first with six assists.
Even better for McDavitt and Jumbos, Brown has the remainder of this
season and next fall to play for Tufts.
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