Amanda Ingersoll Receives Community Awareness Award from IWLCA
Rob Kulish
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (June 10, 2014) – Junior
Amanda Ingersoll (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) of the Stevens Institute of Technology women's lacrosse team earned the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Community Awareness Award, it was announced Saturday at the annual IWLCA banquet in Valley Forge, Pa.
"Amanda represents everything that is right in college athletics," Head Women's Lacrosse Coach
Celine Cunningham said. "The impact she has had on our program goes well beyond game stats. Her leadership on and off the field has been outstanding, and I am grateful to the IWLCA for recognizing Amanda's contributions with this prestigious award."
Ingersoll has been involved in numerous community outreach activities locally, regionally and nationally throughout her time as a member of the Stevens women's lacrosse team and Stevens community.
In May of 2013, the Baldwinsville, N.Y. native was named to the NCAA Division III National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and will serve as a representative for the Empire 8 and SUNYAC through May of 2016. She is one of 24 DIII student-athletes to earn the honor – 12 male and 12 female.
She has been heavily involved in the Special Olympics as a member of the national and Stevens SAAC, promoting Division III's partnership with the event and encouraging campuses around the nation to get involved. Ingersoll volunteered in numerous ways associated with the Special Olympics, helping to put on a Bocce Ball clinic and creating a Bowling Night with the student-athletes and Special Olympic athletes.
Ingersoll has played a major role at local Hoboken homeless shelters, making sandwiches for donation, serving and making dinners, collecting canned foods and doing promotional events to help raise funds.
The third-year Duck has worked with the American Red Cross as well, organizing, running, and cleaning up blood drives and recruiting donors locally and on the Stevens campus itself. Ingersoll has also worked with the Susan G Komen Foundation, organzing and executing Powder Puff Football games and selling "Pink" merchandise to support Breast Cancer Awareness. Additionally, she has done a great deal of work for the Armed Forces and Veteran Outreach, fundraising and participating in the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Tower Run/Walk, and making cards to send to active troops on holidays such as Christmas. Ingersoll has also helped plan an annual "Pancake" night to raise money for the National Kidney Foundation each year since 2012, raised money for the Liberty Humane Society and generated awareness for the STEM program by the local Boys & Girls Club.
Ingersoll has also done a large-scale general work in the local community – volunteering to work the call-in center in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, helping to coordinate a city-wide cleanup after the superstorm as well as setting up and breaking down major local events like the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival.
"We could not be prouder of Amanda as the recipient of the 2014 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Community Awareness Award," Stevens' Director of Athletics
Russell Rogers said. "She is a true leader and who clearly understands the importance of giving back and the positive impact that someone in her role as a student-athlete can have on others."
Ingersoll has starred as a member of Stevens' women's lacrosse program since her first year on Castle Point. She is a three-time all-conference performer, a two-time all-region honoree and the 2012 Empire 8 Rookie of the Year.